How The Great Neumann U87 Is Made…
My favorite mic. Enjoy. -Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvtjHhtxmpI
Interesting little clip about how a Neumann U87 microphone is manufactured. Pretty fiddly, with a ton of hand labor – no wonder they’re so freaking expensive!
“Color Television – What It Means To Broadcasters” is the tile of this issue, and this was the first issue ever wholly devoted to one subject. That subject is color TV, and this is a fascinating time capsule. On page 62, there is a multipage, photo-filled introduction of the RCA TK40 color camera, but all […]
If you have ever wondered what Walter Cronkite saw from his desk, wonder no more. Thanks to Glenn Mack, here is a shot from behind that famous desk in the newsroom at the CBS Broadcast Center from around 1974. It appears that the two Norelco PC70s are in the process of having their teleprompters changed […]
Heavy Metal Flashback: 1971 With football and TK41s on my mind, I thought this would be an excellent time for a second visit to Texas Tech with ABC! Enjoy! Amazingly, till now, there are only 5 or 6 photos of TK41s showing them at football games. In this great 8 photo array, we see the […]
“Saturday Night Live”…Behind The Scenes Of A Typical Week From a few months back, here is my article on some of the production detail of the show! Please remember to visit the EOAG page to see ALL today’s articles…just click on the blue text above! Enjoy and share. -Bobby Ellerbee ‘Saturday Night Live’…Behind The Scenes […]