This 1966 RCA demo on how their newest quad machine works is hosted by RCA’s John Wentworth and although the quality of the film capture is not a good as we would like it, the technical presentation is about as good as it gets. The TR-4 cost over $35,000 in 1966, equivalent to over $283,300 in 2021.
Every so often, a television show comes along that quietly resets the tone of an entire genre. For kids’ programming in the late 1970s, that show was Kids Are People Too. ABC launched it on September 10, 1978, and for the next four years — right up through September 5, 1982 — it became the […]
Sid Caesar: A True Icon Of Television This photo is from Caesar’s Hour, taken in 1956 at the Century Theater in New York. Sid Caesar began his television career when he made an appearance on Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theater in 1948. In early 1949, Sid and Max Lieberman met with Pat Weaver, president of […]
‘Time And Again’…Excellent Johnny Carson Special On October 23rd, Johnny would have been 89 years old. There have been several very good specials on Carson in the past few years, but this 2005 tribute is about as good as is gets. Here, in five parts is the MSNBC tribute that runs around 42 minutes. Part […]
This is TV MEGA HISTORY! In 1935, RCA leaned forward into the development and testing of fully electronic television. The testing had to be done in a real TV studio, but since there were none…it was up to them to design and build the first ever television studio. From 1937, here is the detailed report […]