Here are about 16 images from Georgia’s first TV station, WSB-TV in Atlanta, showing its RCA TK30s at work from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. WSB’s next cameras were RCA TK60s, then TK42s. WSB has been on the air more than 60 years and is a favorite of mine as I grew up watching it, but it amazes me how few photos there are to document those years. Unfortunately, this is a common story with many legendary broadcasters.

I was on this show to celebrate my seventh birthday. It was The Clubhouse Gang with Officer Don. It later became known as The Popeye Club with Officer Don, and was the biggest kids’ show in the country. That’s part of how WSB-TV became one of the first stations in the country to get RCA TK42s, as RCA believed shows such as The Popeye Club would give the cameras an excellent testing ground before they were ready for general release.

This is Ray Moore, long-time WSB news anchor.

Before The Clubhouse Gang, there was The Woody Willow Show with cartoons, and I watched it daily at 4pm as a 5-year old boy.

Here are more photos of TK10s at work at WSB-TV Atlanta. WSB-TV in Atlanta was the first TV station in the South, and began life as an NBC affiliate.