ABC…Saved By The Bell & Whistle
ABC was in big trouble till sports programming saved it. In this Silver Anniversary clip, Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell pay tribute to ‘Wide World Of Sports’ and some of the eras top athletes.
CBS 75th Anniversay Show…Mega Memory Tour #2 From now through Tuesday, we’ll continue NBC, CBS and ABC network anniversary shows for you here, plus a couple of surprises, but now, it’s time for tour #2. This is 2 hours of CBS’s glorious history as it was presented in 2003, and like NBC, CBS has presented […]
The Overmyer—later United—Network remains one of television’s most fascinating near‑misses. The photo shared by Maureen Carney captures comedian Bill Dana, famous for his José Jiménez character, hosting the network’s flagship program The Las Vegas Show. Beginning May 1, 1967, the two‑hour late‑night broadcast originated from the Hotel Hacienda and aired on 106 stations across the […]
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 […]
Dinah Shore Show: NBC, 1952 Yesterday in the KTLA Anniversary video, Dinah mentioned her NBC show and here’s a shot from it at NBC. Originally, ‘The Dinah Shore Show’ was broadcast on Tuesday and Thursday nights from Los Angeles from November 1951 to January 1956. For most of the program’s run, it aired from 7:30 […]