Fox News Channel chooses Digital-S; JVC format will handle studio tasks in New York and Washington.

Broadcasting & Cable, August, 1996 by Dickson, Glen

JVC format will handle studio tasks in New York and Washington Fox Television has chosen JVC's Digital-S 4:2:2 component digital videotape format as the house format for its new 24-hour cable network, Fox News Channel, which debuts Oct. 7. Digital-S will be used to handle all feed recording, editing and playback in Fox News Channel's new all-digital studio in New York and in its Washington bureau.

The purchase represents the first large-scale commitment to the JVC format by a U.S. broadcaster or cable network. (The format debuted at the 1995 NAB convention.) Fox Television is purchasing 120 Digital-S VTRs, including player/recorders, editing recorders with pre-read and play-only models. Although Fox was reluctant to discuss the terms of the deal, JVC...

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