Wow! What a lane of memories you’ve displayed on your website. I was with NBC in Burbank for 33 years. When I retired in 2001, I had spent 23 years as the West Cost Technical Director for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. You have done a wonderful job in documenting television’s history. Now future generations will get an intensive “behind-the-scenes” look at what television was like in our era.
The sentiments expressed here are the sum of the feelings and emotions of the entire Museum of Broadcast Technology family: Looking back only a few decades, as the roaring twenties witnessed the birth and rapid expansion of commercial Radio Broadcasting, forward-looking experimenters, scientists, engineers and their companies were already dreaming, dabbling, developing and deploying the […]
From Philo Farnsworth’s first breakthroughs to today, thousands of people helped shape American television — yet much of that history, like so much programming, has been erased or forgotten. One person, Bobby Ellerbee, has spent years gathering, documenting, and preserving the details of those innovations, creating the only comprehensive resource that captures the true […]
Great job, Bobby. You’ve captured the history, excitement, and the people of our glorious business. Thank you for including me in all your great work. You are our “Keeper of the Flame.” EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Pinto has been there since before Day 1, back when it was called NBC’s SATURDAY NIGHT and he is still […]
It has been 60 years since I started working for CBS at its New York Broadcast Center. I spent 53 years working as a videotape librarian, videotape scheduler, Operation Sheet executive, Program Control Translator, Air Control Supervisor, Associate Director and a director of corporate sales and marketing videos. I saw it all; from 2” tape […]