Eric Shapiro’s Final Fade To Black As ‘CBS Evening News’ Director
Well done sir…well done! Hail and farewell.
“CBS Evening News” director ending 51-year CBS career at the top
Director Eric Shapiro started at CBS in 1963 as a mail boy, working his way up with legendary director Don Hewitt as his inspiration
Baseball Rights $$$, 1961 There is a great enlargeable graph in this story that shows, team by team, the amount they were paid for TV and Radio broadcast rights for the season. Interestingly, WGN did all the Cubs & Sox games in color and WLW-T did a lot of color too. The figures will amaze […]
Computers And Automation vs Manpower And Innovation This shot from Houston’s KPRC is a great example of how news graphics were done in the 50s and 60s. Some stations had a nice drum like this, but others had easels, or old music stands. The images were faxed in daily from either AP or UPI. The […]
Unknown Production History Of ‘You Bet Your Life’… Did you know this was the first television show to be filmed before a live audience? Me either till I read pages 31 and 32 of this August 1952, Television Magazine story. It’s written by Isidore Lindenbaum who owned Film Craft Productions, the studio that filmed the […]
Remembering David Frost British journalist David Frost, who was best known for his interview with former President Richard Nixon, died on Saturday, his family said. The veteran broadcaster was 74. During his 50-year career not only were there plenty of heavyweight interviews – Frost sat down with seven US presidents and six British prime ministers […]