The Final Guy Lombardo New Year With Ben Grauer Reporting Live By the next new year, both Guy and Ben would have passed away, but this was the night of December 31, 1976. Below is some history on the Lombardo broadcast years and some things about Ben Grauer that you may never have known. The […]
TeleTales #60…The CBS Censors And The Smothers Brothers Thanks to Randy West, here is a perfect example of the kind of censorship and restraint CBS applied to Tom and Dick Smothers. Can you say petty? The bigger issue was politics and Tom and Dick discuss that at the link above. The best discussion on this […]
TeleTales #71…NBC Burbank Studio 1: If These Wall Could Talk I would venture to say, that between 1952 and 2013, every major personality in America has been on this stage at one time or another. Between Bob Hope and Johnny Carson’s shows here…well, the list of guests boggles the mind. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee […]
Soupy Sales: 1964 WNEW Even though WNEW was the old Dumont owned WABD, it’s still odd to see these old Dumont cameras in use on the ‘new’ Soupy show. The show started in Detroit at WXYZ in ’53 and began to air on ABC in 59. In ’60 Sales moved to KABC and after ABC […]