KWEX TV Remote Box
date: label: date made
content: 1970s
name: label: maker
content: Sony Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The Sony Corporation manufactured this U-matic S model VO-3800 portable videocassette remote recorder around 1974. The U-Matic was a ¾-inch tape that replaced the heavy and hard-to-process 16mm film used in the news field previously. The portable recorder connected to a shoulder camera, worn on an over-the-shoulder strap. Although the unit weighed forty pounds, it freed reporters from the studio, allowing them to do more stories on location.
label: Description
content: Cameraman and reporter Andreas Morin used this recording unit when he worked at KWEX-TV in San Antonio, Texas during the 1970s. The station operated on such a tight budget, that reporters like Morin often had to reuse the tape multiple times, recording over earlier programs.
label: Description
content: KWEX-TV traces its roots to KCOR-TV, founded in 1954-1955 by Raoul A. Cortez. It was the first Latino-owned, all-Spanish television station in the continental United States. Struggling for financial support, the station was sold in 1961 to Cortez's son-in-law Emilio Nicolas and a group of investors. It became KWEX, the base of operations for the Spanish International Network (SIN). The network would eventually become Univision after a subsequent sale in the 1980s.
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: KCOR Radio and Television
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Univision Communications, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0002.04
label: serial number
content: 20108
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0002.04
label: accession number
content: 2015.0002
label: model number
content: VO-3800
objectType: label: Object Name
content: remote box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown; black; beige (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 12 in x 13 3/8 in; 17.145 cm x 30.48 cm x 33.9725 cm