KWEX TV Camera
date: label: date made
content: c. 1970-1979
label: date made
content: ca 1975
name: label: maker
content: Sony Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Cameraman and reporter, Andreas Morin used this handheld Sony Trinitron color camera when he worked for the Spanish-language KWEX-TV in San Antonio, Texas. The camera recorded to ¾-inch tape, allowed reporters to leave the studio and easily capture news on location. The camera connected to a portable recorder ( object 2015.0002.04) which was worn via on over-the-shoulder strap.
label: Description
content: KWEX-TV Channel 41 broadcast various news and local interest programming from locations around the city, including Mass from the San Fernando Cathedral. KWEX traces its roots to KCOR-TV, launched by Raoul A. Cortez in 1954-1955 as the first Latino-owened, Spanish-language station in the continental United States. Cortez sold the station to his son-in-law, Emilio Nicolas and a group of investors in 1961. It would become the hub of operations for the Spanish International Network, the forerunner to Univision.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Radio and television broadcasting
label: Subject
content: Latino
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: American Enterprise
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content: KCOR Radio and Television
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Andres Ricardo Morin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0003.01
label: serial number
content: 12266
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0003.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0003
label: model number
content: DXC-1600
objectType: label: Object Name
content: camera
label: Object Name
content: television camera
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: beige (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 4 in x 16 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 10.16 cm x 41.91 cm