When I arrived to the KHBS/KHOG TV market in 1998 the tertiary station KHOG in Fayetteville was running its locally sold spots by manually breaking away from the programming they were receiving from KHBS. The Master Control Operator on duty would change a crosspoint on their router and then manually trigger a series of spots to run off of their Odetics 3/4” (U-Matic) tape system. Just reading this makes many people that know what I’m referring to cringe and shudder.

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