ABC, 1980 Election Coverage
Seems a lot of the Ikegami HK 312s have ladies operating them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smHM4Inl62I&list=PL4023E734DA416012
Channel 7 Eyewitness News (WABC-TV) Political Correspondent Roger Sharp takes viewers behind the scenes of ABC’s 1980 Election Night coverage.
A Teaching Moment Here in Studio 6B is Ed McMahon with an RCA TK41 behind him. Notice the angled box addition. It’s on top, front of the camera just in front of the viewfinder and above the lens turret. Know what that is? It’s quite an ingenious sound baffle. Most likely a creation of the […]
Very Interesting! ‘Search For Tomorrow’…The LIVE Episode! On August 4, 1983 the master tape and back up copy of one of the show’s daily episodes went missing! By now the show had moved to NBC from CBS and WNBC’s Jack Cafferty is reporting here on the event of doing a live show. Even Don Pardo […]
The whole backstory of that week in the studio is beautifully told by a Salon Magazine article that I have included here, below the video frame. This was to be the 7th episode of the brand new, late night NBC weekend comedy show “Saturday Night” scheduled to air December 13, 1975, and the one that […]
The CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley On April 19, 1962, Walter Cronkite took over as CBS news anchor. Like the Douglas Edwards program that had preceded his, the show was fifteen minutes long and the title was ‘Walter Cronkite With The News’. On September 2, 1963, CBS was the first to go to a […]