A Bitter-Sweet Remembrance…NBC Burbank
Our friend Richard Wirth has posted a new article on a place where he once worked. Here’s the latest on the demise of this once “proud as a peacock” property and an in depth look back at it’s place in broadcast history.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY…COMMERCIAL TELEVISION! 73 Today! At 1PM, July 1, 1941, NBC’s WNBT in New York became America’s first commercially licensed television station to go on the air. At 2:30 PM, CBS owned WCBW became the second. On June 24, 1941,both the NBC and CBS stations were licensed and instructed to sign on simultaneously on July […]
The cameras you see here are what RCA referred to (this first color camera design) as the Princeton Cameras, as they were designed and built at the RCA Laboratory in Princeton NJ. In the rare photo above, we see singer Gladys Swarthout, performing for the dignitaries during the color test, just before “KFO” was scheduled […]
NBC 60th Anniversay Show…Mega Memory Tour #1 From now through Tuesday, we’ll have the NBC, CBS and ABC network anniversary shows for you here, plus a couple of surprises, but now, it’s time for tour #1. This is 2 1/2 hours of NBC’s glorious history without commercials…well, almost. Ed Herlihy is here to tell you […]
By far, the most informative collection of information I have ever seen on early telephony and broadcasting. Without AT&T’s help, there never could have been radio, or television networks with such immediacy and reach. Until satellite communications, Ma Bell was the only way to connect, and overall, they did a great job, as did […]