TeleTales #50…Double Header History In The Making

This is the story of the first MLB night game broadcast and…a little more. The article from June of 1941 also gives us what I think is the first ever look at the RCA Model 1846 Orthicon camera.

It has been hard to get a date on when these cameras were actually put into service, but in the photo we see the 1846 on the right of the RCA field Iconoscope camera. More than likely, it was here to use as a side by side comparison test for RCA and NBC engineers. This is a couple of years earlier than the 1943 date we had thought. Enjoy and share. -Bobby Ellerbee

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