The “Other Shoe” Drops In Burbank
Entire ‘Tonight Show’ Staff Laid Off as Jimmy Fallon Moves Show From Burbank to NYC – TheWrap
All 164 employees are being encouraged to apply for positions in New York
Under Construction…NBC Studio 6B Thanks to our friend Dennis Degan, here are a couple of photos of 6B undergoing a massive face lift. In the October 20 photo on the left we see the curved steel platform under the audience riser start to take shape. In the November 23 picture on the right, you can […]
December 19, 1958…’The Chipmunk Song’ Tops The Record Charts Did you know that David Seville was the stage name for Ross Bagdasarian? Bagdasarian was both creator and voice of The Chipmunks. The year before he had a hit with ‘The Witch Doctor’. The tape machine Bagdasarian used to record his novelties was the variable speed, […]
The Baughman Pedestal This little mobile pedestal was a real work horse from the 1950s till the 80s. Originally made by Baughman, Houston Fearless copied it as did other camera support makers including ITC. There was a hydraulic version and this one, the manual crank version for height adjustment. This is my RCA TK11/31 mounted […]
NBC Studio 8H, May 1951 NBC Studio 8G was converted in 1948, but as NBC Radio’s largest studio, 8H was not converted till 1950. This image is from the May 1951 edition of Popular Science and had just changed it’s title from “America’s largest radio studio” to “America’s largest television studio”. Television was not new […]