Here is a rare mapping of how all the dozens of elements of the multi-day broadcast would lay out. Notice ground zero is Studio 8H and just to the right, we see Studio 5H…the breaking news studio we talked about in the post just before this, which was later renamed 5HN for headline news. Thanks to Gady Reinhold for this treasure! Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Be sure to click through these historic images, as I have made extensive comments on each of them, and each image holds a secret of its own. These screenshots are from a rare early kinescope believed to have been shot on April 6, 1948, and would be perhaps the very first moving image of the […]
Hate ‘Happy Talk’ News? Me Too! Blame William Fyffe! William C. Fyffe, was the television news executive who pioneered the medium’s controversial “happy news” trend more than three decades ago. From the Los Angeles Times: “The longtime president and general manager of WABC-TV in New York City, Fyffe developed his happy-talk format in the Midwest, […]
Is It Hot In Here Or Is It Just Me? Here’s an RCA TK11 with all it’s doors open to cool off. This shot is from CBS Television City from around 1956 and taken on Stage 43 where ‘Climax’ was done. It was an anthology show with different live dramas each week and was much […]
3D Rigs…A Relic Already? PLEASE HELP US FILL IN THE BLANKS! I got an email from our friend Chuck Pharis last night that said all the 3D trucks at ESPN are gone now. It seems that an engineer in India has come up with a box that converts any HD signal into 3D! I hope […]