A Nice Look At A TK30…
Delco Parts Commercial Form NBC’s ‘Wide, Wide World’
Here’s a nice look at an RCA TK30 on a crane as this announcer uses it as a prop in this live spot for Delco. At the start of this clip is the host of the show, Dave Garroway. ‘Wide, Wide World’ began in June of 1955 as part of the ‘Producers Showcase’ and aired once a month on Sunday afternoon as it rotated with three other Showcase presentations each month. The 90 minute show was so well received, it became a regularly scheduled Sunday afternoon show just five months later and stayed on the air till 1958. This show achieved many television firsts including being the first to broadcast live from Canada and Mexico during one of their Sunday shows. Another time, NBC used 50 live cameras on one episode that took viewers from a street car ride in San Francisco, to a rodeo in Ft. Worth, to a glass bottom boat tour of Silver Springs in Florida…all done live. Thanks to Ira Gallen for sharing this.
Nice to see Garroway, even if only for a few seconds. There’s the guy who wrote the book on how to host live television. Sad that he’s virtually forgotten these days.
Before the creation of ‘Wide, Wide World’ on NBC, it was in 1948 or ’49, that Buffalo station WBEN-TV broadcasted live pictures from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada back to Buffalo, NY, to do the first international transmission. This was a few years before even the BBC in London, took equipment to Calais, France to make claim of the first international transmission.