ABC…Saved By The Bell & Whistle
ABC was in big trouble till sports programming saved it. In this Silver Anniversary clip, Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell pay tribute to ‘Wide World Of Sports’ and some of the eras top athletes.
‘Mork And Mindy’…It All Started On ‘ The Dick Van Dyke Show’ In tribute to Robin Williams, today we’ll take a look at some little known history that relates to his extraordinary career. He was one of the world’s most brilliant comics and he, like his hero Jonathan Winters, will be missed for years to […]
Television & The Presidential Inaugurations…Part 1 President Harry Truman’s January 20,1949 inauguration was the first to be televised to the 2,000,000 sets in use in the US, but television did not reach the west coast until Truman’s 1952 speech from San Francisco was telecast. In the photo, the raised platform is for the radio reporters, […]
When The CBUT Mark IIs Were Brand New This is a photo from August of 1954 showing camera one of four CBUT Marconi Mark IIs covering swimming competition at Vancouver’s newly constructed Empire Pool. Vancouver was the host city of the Empire (aka Commonwealth) Games of 1954. This camera is equipped with a Watson 5 […]
This one caught me off guard too. Before the world knew the Muppets as a global phenomenon, Jim Henson and his small crew were grinding away on a local kids’ show in Washington, D.C. From 1955 to 1961. They were on WRC‑TV, doing inventive, scrappy work that hinted at what was coming — but nobody […]