Popular Mechanics shows in detail how one of the 1952 political conventions would be televised from Chicago. These were major broadcast events, and the amount of equipment and people brought in is just amazing.
MUST SEE HISTORY OF EARLY LOS ANGELES TELEVISION! KTLA’s 70th Anniversary Is Today! January 22, 1947 – 2017 This amazing video is packed with ultra rare historical footage of not only KTLA, but from the early days of all the Los Angeles television stations! The show is hosted by Bob Hope, Betty White, Steve Allen, […]
From April 1961, here is what EVERYBODY was doing with color. From networks to local stations and cameras to tape, this packed-with-pictures edition of RCA’s Broadcast News is all about color.
Sig Mickelson was the first president of CBS News, and it is from that insider’s view that we get this amazing story. In only 8 pages, he explains how CBS public affairs management’s best laid plans to make Sunday afternoons their bull’s eye for public service programming got shot out of a cannon, and how […]
The RCA TK30 Era Extends to Studio 50: This second TK30 part is to commemorate the move from CBS Studio 51 (The Maxine Elliott Theater at 109 W. 39th Street) to CBS Studio 50 (at 1697 Broadway) in January of 1953. The cameras were still RCA TK30s but it was a much larger venue. (THE […]