IKEGAMI KEY TO JC STUDIOS' QUICK STARTUP       11 New Digital Cameras Support historic Facility's Rebirth      January 28, 2000, NEW YORK: "As The World Turns" has just started shooting at their new home, brooklyn's JC Studios. But getting the CBS series to those stages was more than just a daytime drama: early mornings, late nights and weekends were needed from a dedicated staff, plus fast moves from key suppliers like Ikegami.      "When NBC left, they gutted the place," recalls Paul Stiegelbauer, Director of Technical Operations for JC Studios. "They left the cables, some monitors, the audio boards anf that's about it. Everything else was gone, so we had to start basically from ground zero. Without Ikegami's help, it would not have happended."      Supplying JC Studios bought Vitagraph Studios in 1950s, the network used it to produce everything from "The Steve Allen Show" and "The Perry Como Show" to the first episode of "Saturday Night Live" and "The Cosby Show." But the cancellation of "Another World" rendered the facility expendable, and the stages that had also hosted Laurel & Hardy, Cecil B. DeMille, and Esther Williams' first pool were vacant for almost a year.      Fortunately, when "As The World Turns" put out feelers for a new studio, Paul and his brother Michael, owner of the Scenic construction from Stiegelbauer Associates, heard the news. The pair had first visited the block-long building as children, with courtesy access to their late father, James Clifton Stiegelbauer, a longtime scenic designer there, By purchasing the facility and providing the show with a home, Michael and Paul realized a dream of bringing the stages back to full strength, and as a tribute to their father renamed the complex JC Studios, after his initials. But the real work was still ahead. "Once we had the OK, we were able to get started on the building on November 1st, 1999, "Stiegelbauer says, "which left us two months to get a facility this size - with a 13,000 sq. ft. and a 10,000 sq. ft. stage - up and running."      JC Studios needed their high-end digital TV cameras within a month - no ifs, ands or buts. Only one manufacturer, Ikegami, could handle the fast turnaround. "We called Ikegami, and they said, "We can have your cameras there by December 1st," Stiegelbauer recalls. "Sre as their word, the stuff started arriving December 1st."      "If you don't have reliable cameras, then you don't have a studio. Reliability is foremost: We need something that performs reliably day in and day out, with no drifting. These Ikegami 388Ws are incredibly stable, and they worked right out of the box."      The Ikegamis were also a perfect match for "As The World Turns". "They had the earlier versions of the Ikegami cameras at CBS, which they liked the look of," says Stiegelbauer. "The video engineer knows the cameras very well, so the learning curve was shortened considerably."      With newly developed digital processing application specific integrated circuits(ASICs), the new Ikegami HK-388W cameras at JC Studios achieve consistently a high level of picture quality and reliability. A 10MHz ultra-wideband component triax system and a fiber optic digital transmission system are introduced together with the HK-388W. The ability to select between 4:3 and 16:9 allows the show's producers total flexibility between formats. Additionally, a full host of Ikegami Professional monitors round out the facility's production suites. Meanwhile, as the cameras were set up and integrated into JC Studios' nearly all-digital facility, carpeting went down, paint went on, the lighting grid came alive, and the building buzzed again as it has for almost 100 years. Right on schedule, "As The World Turns" began taping on Jan. 3rd, as Stiegelbauer and his team capped off a miraculous rebuild in just nine weeks.      "I've always been a fan of Ikegami cameras, so I was very happy in their role with pulling this place together," Paul Stiegelbauer says. "I've basically been working in show business since I was born, and I remember playing with my brother in the basement here when I was eight years old. It was my father's dream to resurrect these studios, and now it's come true."      Ikegami Electronics is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality professional broadcast television cameras, monitors, and accessories. The company's High Definition TV Cameras (HDTV) have become the broadcast industry leaders as the change over to the High Definition Television format moves ahead.