This is the team that came up with the RCA TK 11 – 31. Only known photo of the original engineering team with one of the first TK 11s at Camden plant. Photo from RCA Engineers Digest Nov 1952 donated by RCA Engineer Harry Wright.
A Leisurely Stroll Down Memory Lane…WBOC, Circa 1964 This video will start at the beginning of the television studios tour, but for engineering and radio fans, the tour starts at the transmitters and radio studios just before this. WBOC is in Salisbury, Maryland and this twenty minute video has a very generous helping of RCA […]
ULTRA RARE! Gabby Hayes…No Beard, In Drag With John Wayne! Till now, I’ve never seen Gabby without whiskers, much less dressed as a woman! This serial clip is from 1934 and also stars a new comer…John Wayne. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFBI4DyBTn4 Gabby goes under cover to expose two villains Harris and Cole, Assayers (Lloyd Whitlock & Yakima Canutt) […]
In 1963, KPRC‑TV in Houston deployed two advanced mobile television units that were custom-built for them by Southern Coach. Usually when stations in the west bought new GE cameras, the opted out of all the RCA equipment. Southern Coach became the logical next step for broadcasters who required expanded interiors, greater equipment capacity, and more […]
Early Marconi Color Testing I suspect this experimental color camera is from around 1954. It is the predecessor to Marconi’s BD 848 which appeared around 1957 and was built along the lines of the RCA TK41. Around 1947 Marconi entered an agreement with RCA to build modified versions of the TK 30 which became the […]