Re: ChromaKey (Was WBZ Archives)

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On Friday, Mar 13, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>I would guess that the old WHDH was one the first to use 
>chromakey as they were using it as early as 1963 on the local 
>news. 
   Locally, perhaps. But Ernie Kovacs was doing chromakey 
effects back in the mid-fifties. One of the first matting 
amplifiers, which produced a luminence key effect (which is 
like a chromakey, only adds signals via b&w blanking [or 
matting] signals) that inspired Kovacs was actually built back 
in the late 'forties at WPTZ in Philadelphia, the station where 
Kovacs stared out.

- - Henry Dane

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