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.

• Patent awarded to Duncan and CBC

  Patent for Wide Range Tunnel Diode Oscillator awarded to CBC Director of Engineering Virgil Duncan in 1962. The invention was useful for feeding background music into distribution systems for TV and FM radio sets.

• 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.