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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 03:34:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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   • Denis Warburton

   @artandtechnic the system is hardcoded to the east coast?!

   • Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 03:34:02 JST Denis Warburton

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     According to the TV book, the program aired at 10 p.m. on January 10, 1978.

     So, you might wonder, why does the SID data say that it was transmitted at 1:03 a.m. on January 11 ???

     Well, that’s because the original videotape recording was made on the west-coast of the United States. Since the SID system only represents the current time in terms of the EASTERN time zone, if you adjust by three hours, you have the correct east coast broadcast time.

   • Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 03:34:03 JST Denis Warburton

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     Although I ended up having to manually tune my SID decoder’s solution, it was able to decode the data without issue.

     The following timestamp data originated from the very beginning of the recording.

   • Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 03:34:03 JST Denis Warburton

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     Once I had an authoritative calendar date from the SID data, I then proceeded to search contemporary newspapers for the program.

     I soon discovered that 1977 was *the*wrong*year*. 😂

     Searching for the actual program name, I discovered that it actually aired in 1978 (see promo below).

   • Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 03:34:04 JST Denis Warburton

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     Of the various recordings on the tape, only one appeared to have the Nielsen data signal, so I made a point of digitizing it: an excerpt of an NBC news/entertainment program, “The Land of Hype and Glory.”

     UGA catalog listing (seems incomplete):
     https://bmac.libs.uga.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/28218

   • Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 03:34:05 JST Denis Warburton

     One of the VHS tapes that I purchased yesterday was selected entirely on the basis of its label, which claimed that it contained (bootlegged) recordings from 1977.

     Since I’m perpetually on the look-out for recordings from that year, so that I can acquire samples of the Line 20 Nielsen SID signal, you could say it grabbed my attention. 😂