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Inside the KCTU Control Room

Here's the old control room during a production of "Your Hour" in 2014 when KCTU-TV 43 was located at 2100 E. Douglas in Wichita, KS. This is where The Low-Budget Late Show (KCTU Dancers), Good Morning Wichita, Your Hour, Mouthy Broads, The River City Forum and all the other live or pre-recorded shows were made. Needless to say, I spent countless hours in here. While the equipment wasn't up-to-date, the environment was one of the best for learning. We were doing solo directing and producing long before other stations in town out of sheer necessity. The old Douglas studios are no more, and the building has ironically returned to being a flooring store. KCTU continues on today as Channel 5. Equipment List: (For AV Geeks): Top row: Commodore 64 monitor for monitoring the DVD recorder, rack mount Sony TV for the off air signal, another C64 monitor, Windows XP computers for "robo cam" control and control track, Camera Control Units for Sony DXC-3000 cameras (we had 4 working 3000's but only 2 CCUs. Also had a couple of the last Sony tube cameras.) Second row: Teleprompter monitors (one was inverted so you could still read the teleprompter when it was backwards), one of 2 flat screen TVs in the building monitoring switcher inputs and outputs, "Camera 2" box was for an ancient Hitachi tube camera (huge) that I never did get working, several computer monitors, video distribution amplifiers and a bunch of Sony video processors that were on their last legs. Bottom: You can't miss the Grass Valley 3000. Not everything worked but it was a fun switcher. The signal processor frame and power supply were in master control and took up an entire rack. To the right of the switcher is a Sony mixing console. I can't remember the model, but it was well designed albeit small. On the right is the video playback computer. And behind the mixer is a CD player (with video karaoke) and the famous DVD recorder on which everything was recorded. On the far right is another computer running a Chyron program from 1998. The teleprompter desk was on the far left and Studio A lighting controls were on the wall behind. There was also a bell I rigged up for the "switcher overheat alarm" when the switcher rack got too hot during the summer, which would happen if you forgot to open the cabinet up before the show. What a time.