Abstract
The Section Meeting was held on 9 December at the WCMH Television transmission plant in Columbus, in conjunction with the local Society of Broadcast Engineers-Chapter 52. Fifty members and guests were shown a chronological timeline of the events leading up to and including the completion of their transmitter installation by Comark field staff and WCMH engineers. Their new state-of-the-art transmitter is now on the air with ATSC 1.0 VSB signaling but can easily be upgraded to ATSC 3.0, which includes the required orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signaling in less than half-day. Ken McCrimmon, WCMH’s chief engineer, began his slide presentation by showing photographs of the various phases involved in the project’s successful installation and completion. He then listed the many broadcast engineering firsts presented to the Columbus TV market over the years from their former call letters WLW-C (channels 3 then 4) and later WCMH, including: first TV station on the air in Columbus, first NBC-compatible color broadcast on 1 January 1954 with the Tournament of Roses Parade, first WLW regional color broadcasts in August 1957, first local origination color broadcasts in 1960, and first stereo audio NBC passthrough and local origination broadcasts in July 1985, with the MLB All Star baseball game coverage from NBC. He also stated that with the installation of the TV station’s new Comark broadcast transmitter, WCMH is now future-proof for many years!
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