ABC, 1980 Election Coverage
Seems a lot of the Ikegami HK 312s have ladies operating them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smHM4Inl62I&list=PL4023E734DA416012
Channel 7 Eyewitness News (WABC-TV) Political Correspondent Roger Sharp takes viewers behind the scenes of ABC’s 1980 Election Night coverage.
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Three pages of historic articles on the start of the iconic Chicago station.
I’ve had this photo of these 10 cameras that were built by WFBM in Indianapolis for a long time and have often wondered why these guys built so many of them. Now I know. Operating now at WRTV, the station signed on the air on May 30, 1949 under the call sign WFBM-TV with a […]