Remembering Grant Tinker….
Grant Tinker, former CEO of NBC, dies at age 90
Grant Tinker, former chairman and CEO of NBC and architect of many successes for the network, has died at age 90. He was also a former husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore.
November 15, 1926…The First NBC Radio Broadcast, Part 3 The “Color” Networks…Red, Blue, White, Gold And Orange If you thought there was just Red and Blue, think again, but these didn’t all occur on November 15, 1926. In the beginning, NBC operated two networks: NBC Blue, headed by station WJZ, and NBC Red, headed by […]
Kukla, Fran and Ollie Here’s a nice shot from home base, WNBQ, Chicago. Burr Tillstrom was the creator and only puppeteer on the show, which premiered as the hour-long ‘Junior Jamboree’ locally on WBKB in Chicago, on October 13, 1947. The program was renamed ‘Kukla, Fran and Ollie’ and transferred to WNBQ (the predecessor of […]
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It was part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Here is one of the many cameras from every network covering the event. NBC’s Chicago O&O, WNBQ had a big mobile […]
TeleTales #106…ABC’s First News Stars; John Daly And Quincy Howe Both men started out with CBS Radio and both worked with Edward R. Murrow in Europe during WWII, with a staff that included Charles Collingwood, William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Joseph C. Harsch, H. V. Kaltenborn and Robert Trout. Daly actually covered the famous, General […]