Table of Contents
What came before webpage
Chapter 1 - Crown Point
If it weren't for the gold!
Virtual business and company
From hardware to software to anywhere
Full Circle
Chapter 2 - It took a particular miner
Creating the area's first industry
The Big Two Mines
Bourn and his mines
MacBolye
I made my money here, I’ll spend it here
Transportation
Hospital
The End of an Era
Chapter 3 - Getting "high tech" to Grass Valley
Charlie Litton
Leaving the bay area
Litton Engineering
The Children
Community involvement
Aviation
The building itself
Condo
Business Incubator
Chapter 4 - Doc Hare
Fresno and Stanford
Donald George Corkhill Hare
Card Shark
Graduate School
Getting to DGCH Co
The Thirties
WWII
Audio and data recording
Hare and company
Expanding – Cinerama
First Sale
Sangamo – Sale number two
Litton and Hare
Moving to Grass Valley
A falling out
Chapter 5 - The Group
Hand to mouth
Forget about finding a market, need to find a business!
Dr. Hare's Management Style
GV discovers video
ABC
Now a Video Company
Moving up the food chain – Video Production Switchers
Financially On the map
Chapter 6 - Tektronix
The Scope Guys - Displacing Dumont and RCA
No Longer Independent
The End of the Hare Era
Chapter 7 - Starting to lose their grip on the place
Spanning the 3rd Revolution
Vertical Integration
Bitney Springs
Beginning of the end
Providence Site
Chapter 8 - Analog by Nature
Early Engineering Prowess
1600
Emem
300
Hybrids
More Switchers
Modular
Wavelink
Routers
Chapter 9 - Creating a powerful competitor
Giving Sony an Opening
What to sell
1st Consumer Products
Transistors
Additional Consumer Products
Television
Professional and Industrial
VTRs
Building the Brand
Partners
Chapter 10 - Under new stewardship
Early Tek line of succession
Bob Johnson
Jim Ward
Tom Long
Dave Friedley
"Divisionalization"
Chapter 11 - Pulling the company down
Late to the 3rd revolution
Slow to Digital
The first digital boxes
DVE's
3000/4000 GVG's First Digital Switchers
NVISION Spinoff and Abandonment
First Clientele
HD - Failure to Launch
No Tek Round Two
The Book
HD Finally Arrives
Grass Valley Overtures
Dot Com Bust
Sale to ADC
Completing the Digital Food Chain
ACATS
VSB verses COFDM
Going HD
DTV Matures
Too late too to the Game
Playing Catch up
Spinning apart
Chapter 12 - Game of Thrones
Dan Wright
Dave Mayfield
Wright Gone
Friedley Out
Larry Kaplan – Tek VP and GV GM
Bob Wilson
Jerry Meyer – Tek President and Long Out
Kaplan Out Castles Tek VP
Dan Castles
Lucie Fjeldstad – Tek VP
Castles leaves
Larry Neitling
Tim Thorsteinson – Tek VP
Chapter 13 - Chain of Succession
The Gooding Interlude
Thomson’s Turn
Thomson's Ancestry
Thomson
Bosch
Bell & Howell
Philips
BTS & Philips Broadcast
Technicolor
Bulking Up
The implosion
Next! – Francisco Partners
Alain Andreoli
Tim Thorsteinson
Being Bigger - Belden
John Stroup
GV's Turn
Buying up the U.K.
Everywhere but here
In Name Only
Chapter 14 - Not Even Belden Could Make it Work
Didn’t know what they were getting into
Becoming software centric
New more software centric Product Lineup
The stall
Sale
For the GVs of the world - Q to Q Does not Work
Making your numbers 101
Corporate Culture
Black Dragon Capitol
Grass Valley Technology Alliance (GVTA)
Chapter 15 - The Fairchild Effect
We started it all
Silicon Valley
Running a company – staying on top
Video Valley
Cyan Engineering/Atari
Ampex Connection
Arcade Games
Video Console System
Warner
An interesting aside during VCS development
Bushnell’s exit
Video Game Crash
Fire Sale
Ataritel
The End
Applied Design Labs
Other Early players
Graham-Patton
The Isis Group Inc
IMIX
Sierra Video
Continental
DirecTV
Ensemble Designs
Others taking advantage of the food chain
Cable Data
Cineplex
Hedco
Lighthouse Digital
Silicon Systems
Spice
Black Magic
NVISION 2.0
NV 2.0
Miranda Sale
The big two
Telestream
Starting the company
Early Products
Clip & Flip Mail
Flip Factory
Technological Bridges
20 years and handing over the reins
Less in NC, but the industry influence increases
AJA Video Systems
Landscape today
Branching Away from TV
Chapter 16 - Why Grass Valley is no longer in Grass Valley
In name only
The Pandemic
The Industries Meeting Place
The Vegas Strip
Las Vegas Convention Center
Farnsworth
The Convention Itself
The Unthinkable No More
New Workflows
Working Remotely
Sports
The new reality, at least for now
SAAS
A Central Client – The TD
Chapter 17 - The Future
Television, Video, and the Valley
Technically can the area stay relevant?
The China Problem
Ceronix
Attracting Talent to the Area
The Towns
Infrastructure
Fire
Power and Other Infrastructure
A Virtual Company