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To: DiViT who wrote (34899)	8/3/1998 7:39:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

New York City's WNET converts to digital broadcast.................... tvbroadcast.com D(igital)-Day for WNET is Fast Approaching By Lauren Rooney ThirteenWNET, New York's Public Broadcast Station, is moving its corporate headquarters and studios this fall and upgrading to a completely digital facility. Thirteen WNET president William Baker said it just made sense to start working in digital. "We're in the business of quality programming. If you're doing Great Performances, having the finest picture and sound benefits us." WNET expects to spend around $30 million on the move and upgrade. The money is coming from corporate sponsors and Thirteen WNET viewers. The station chose Sony and Tektronix to provide the equipment, with Baker stating that there were three main concerns in choosing a vender. "The ability to serve and maintain the equipment, flexibility of integrating with other pieces of equipment, and price." Kenneth Devine, managing director of facilities, engineering, and broadcast operations at Thirteen WNET said Sony is providing all of the tape and equipment support. "All of our post-production equipment in the linear world will be Sony SDI, including edit and production control switchers, edit controllers, and DVEs." Tektronix will provide the routing, signal distribution, and master control technology. WNET is also purchasing Andrews 7.6 and 7.3 satellite dishes, one of which will be steerable; and the station is installing digital microwaves, but has not yet selected a vendor. Devine said the main idea behind equipment choice and studio design was integration. Four of his departments that deal with video are currently spread over ten floors of office space. The new facility will have 200,000 square feet on just two floors, and related departments will be grouped together. "These people are now figuring out how everyone can play well together and come up with one overall technology approach that doesn't create islands, but instead creates one coherent system where all people have all things. That has been a big challenge."