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This article was published more than 6 years ago. Some information may no longer be current.On the morning of Dec. 31, 1956, he had bowed as host of NBC's weekday game show,"Truth or Consequences." And he was thrilled.
"Can YOU imagine doing an audience-participation show at 8:30 in the morning?" Barker, 93, laughs, speaking by phone from his home just a few blocks from the theatre that, 60 years ago, summoned early passers-by with the lure of free coffee and seeing a TV host in the flesh. "We all rejoiced," says Barker."The bigger the studio audience and the wider-awake it was, the better for me!"
That first Ampex machine had the bulk of an industrial kitchen range, cost upward of $45,000 and recorded only in monochrome. Since it was incapable of electronic editing, it required laboriously cutting and splicing the tape. The wear-and-tear of four magnetic spinning heads raking the tape's emulsion at 14,400 rotations per minute meant a reel of the expensive two-inch-wide tape could only be used about 40 times before it was worn out .
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