David Letterman…Last Monologue on NBC
This is classic! Wait till you see David and Paul ice skate! Enjoy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NnrXKxOHkw
The Last Episode of “Late Night with David Letterman”. Guests: Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen.
December 22, 1931…First Empire State Broadcast & TV Test History Update On this day in 1931, NBC made it’s first experimental television broadcast from the new Empire State Building transmitter. Since the story of RCA’s early television transmission test sites is a bit muddled, I am taking this opportunity to clarify a few things with […]
‘Tonight’…The Jack Paar Era Location wise, the ‘Tonight’ show with Jack Paar started where Steve Allen left off…in the Hudson Theater but the final show from there came the week the 1950s ended. The first week of January 1960, the show’s new home would be NBC’s Studio 6B. In the photo below (and at the […]
45 Years Ago Today…Apollo 11 Begins The Trip Home: Day 7 Here is the seventh of eight daily articles written for Eyes Of A Generation by Jodie Peeler on this historic event, complete with videos. Enjoy and share! ______________________________________________________ While television from Earth orbit had been demonstrated as early as Gordon Cooper’s May 1963 Mercury […]
October 31, 1953…NBC’s First Network Colorcast: “Carmen” In essence, the opera “Carmen” was broadcast nationally in black and white with the color burst removed. BUT, the color broadcast was fed via closed circuit to viewing parties in New York, possibly Washington and to Chicago. The colorcast was live from NBC’s first and only color facility, […]