More Highlights for Virgil Duncan

• The Ampex VR-1000

  WRAL-TV Chief Engineer Virgil Duncan inspects the stations first videotape machine in the summer of 1958.

• First WRAL videotape truck

  This was the first WRAL-TV videotape truck capable of recording a program on location. GM Fred Fletcher and Director of Engineering Virgil Duncan enjoy the moment. The truck contained a huge videotape machine, which can be seen behind Fletcher.

• Virgil Duncan and Lee Poole

  WRAL-TV engineers tweaking one of the station studio cameras in 1965.

• WRAL-TV videotape truck

  Fred Fletcher and Director of Engineering Virgil Duncan with WRAL-TV’s first videotape truck. This vehicle allowed programs and other material to be recorded on location.