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from Les Brown Apr 26, 2022
When the GVG switchers (Grass Valley Group) were shipped from California they arrived at Logan Airport with no forwarding instructions - on a Saturday night. The Vital (brand) switchers we had were failing and in urgent need of replacement. Earliest Tanner could arrange for a truck was a week away for some reason, so I drove my Volvo with a small Sears trailer behind to Logan and picked them up. Trailer full. The trailer lid with a plywood box strapped on and roof-racks on the Volvo with the box holding the main panel overhead. Value about $200,000 and completely uninsured. That night I worked with Tony Santos - we took the Vital studio switcher out using bolt cutters on the cables right at the end of the late news and had the new 1600-7G in place in time for Andy Nechesnoff who had directed the late news to return and do the live Sunday Mass on a switcher he had never seen before! I worked at GVG, Grass Valley, California for almost 20 years before retiring. The company was owned by Tektronix which, through stock manipulations, got run into the ground and finally GVG was sold off. It went through several hands and most recently was bought by Belden Wire & Cable and moved to Canada to escape California's insane tax and regulation schemes. Fortunately we retired when it was owned by Tektronix so our pensions came from there and got transferred to Danaher Corporation when they bought up most to Tektronix. They're the company that makes Craftsman tools - once a Sears exclusive now on their own. |
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