Engineering types will love this great discussion on transmission techniques. Coaxial, long wave and more is discussed here in depth in a very good article. Also, the problems from lack of standards is talked about at length.
A 1949 press release notes the debut of NBC’s Los Angeles station.
There are some TV secrets hiding in plane sight in this pristine color photo of NBC’s “Miss Color TV”, Marie McNamara. This is The Colonial Theater, NBC’s first real color studio. Notice that all four prototype cameras are mounted on prototype pan heads. This cradle head model was on the Houston Fearless drawing board, but […]
Blueprints of the former NBC studios in Brooklyn.
Here you’ll see everything from the TK60s and 41s to lenses, pedestals, heads, cranes, lights, control room and telecine gear and more…it’s the whole magilla. In case you have never visited David Gleason’s American Radio History site, you should! He has almost every broadcast publication ever printed and it’s all readable and searchable. A fantastic […]