30 Rock: FINAL EPISODES AIR TONIGHT!
Great send off article in the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/bracing-for-30-rocks-sharp-witted-farewell/2013/01/30/a5d7aa1a-6b1e-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html
This was a step up from the Iconoscope in it’s light sensitivity, but it was a remote camera and still needed daylight, or stadium lighting. The Orthicon was a hybrid of sorts, needing the added utility of Philo Farnsworth’s Image Dissector tube technology, which was finally incorporated into the Image Orthicon a few years later. […]
Who Knew? NASA Got An Emmy For It’s Pictures From The Moon! 45 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. They also sent back live television pictures and Mr. Aldrin became the first lunar cameraman. Five years ago, the TV Academy presented NASA with an […]
The Original Amateur Hour With Ted Mack: Part 2 Like many other shows that moved from radio to TV, this one was a continuation of ‘Major Bowes Amateur Hour’ which had been a radio staple from 1934 to 1945. Major Edward Bowes, the originator of the program and its master of ceremonies, left the show […]
The Burns & Allen Show…1950-1958 Their radio show started in 1936 but by 1950, it was time to move to television. When ‘The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show’ began on CBS Television October 12, 1950, it was an immediate success. The show was originally staged live before a studio audience and during its first […]