Welcome to the Archives section. On these expanded and updated pages, you will read and hear untold stories and see unique images by the hundreds dating from the earliest days of television, to the present.
The content here was not widely available to the general public and contains a lot of information that was created for internal use, or as business-to-business material from broadcasters and affiliated industries. This is also home to unique, unpublished information contributed by authors, and a good example is the great AT&T Book…Connecting The Continent For Radio And Television by our friend Mark Durenberger and others.
Some of the other exclusive features of this page include my Total Color Camera Sales In The US, The Ellerbee Classic Camera Census, and First Person, An Oral History of Broadcast Television. Hundreds of new entries on a variety of television topics have been added, with more to come. -Bobby Ellerbee
Above, “Tonight” show in NBC Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Plaza circa 1963.
NBC Broadcast Operations, Program Schedule Sheets, 1951-58
1967: First Anniversary Of NBC’s Full-Color Schedule
RCA/NBC Firsts In Television, 1923-1941
1951: CBS Television At 20
1948: NBC Puts Kinescopes In Use
1950: NBC Converts Studio 8H For Television
1948: NBC Sums Up The Year
CBS Television City Documents
CBS Color Studio 72
1931: Constructing NBC’s 711 Fifth Avene Radio Studios
Building NBC Studios 6A And 6B
1949: First West-East Kinescope
“The NBC Inhouse Mobile Units? YEP!”
The Early History of WEAF…NBC Radio’s Flagship Station
RARE! NBC Television Studio Technique, 1940
NBC – Recent Television Developments, 1940
NBC Television Lighting, 1940
The Planning & Design of NBC Studio 3H…Home Of Electronic Television
