BREAKING NEWS! COLBERT TO REPLACE LETTERMAN!
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Stephen Colbert to Replace David Letterman
The CBS Television Network today announced that Stephen Colbert, the host, writer and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “The Colbert Report,” will succeed David Letterman as …
Just so you know, our friend David Gleason’s labor of love is absolutely THE VERY BEST resource for online broadcast research of print media anywhere! He has scanned millions of pages of history onto his WORLD RADIO HISTORY site and made it available to us all FREE! Oh, and what you see above is […]
The Masters Of Stage Craft Magic…IATSE Local 1, New York City Before videotape came along in 1956, live television was very dependent on skilled stage hands to move scenery in and out during the broadcasts of everything from comedies like “Your Show Of Shows” to dramatic anthologies like “The Kraft Playhouse”, and all the rest. […]
May 12, 1963…Bob Dylan, Ed Sullivan & The Koch Brothers? Yep! After seeing this photo, many swear they remember seeing Bob Dylan on the Sullivan show, but it never happened…it almost did though. In May of 1963, Bob Dylan was still an aspiring young musician who was preparing for the release of his second album […]
ABC’s First Series…’Hollywood Screen Test’, April 1948 The “television magic” starts with the name of the show…it was actually done in New York. ABC didn’t have a television property in Los Angeles till September of 1949. Debuting on 15 April 1948, and hosted first by Bert Lytell and then Neil Hamilton (who we know best […]