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 This is also home to unique, unpublished information contributed by authors, and a good example is the great AT&T Book…Connecting The Continent For Radio And Television by our friend Mark Durenberger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.
1932: First American Cathode Ray Televisor
1933, Where Television Stands Today
1936: First Philo T. Farnsworth Interview
1937: The Truth About Television
1938: Early Television Makeup
1938: Where Is Television Now?
1939: New York TV Set Receives London Signal
1939: Exploding the Television Boom
1940: Second Philo T. Farnsworth Interview
1946: Mechanical Color Wheels or Electronic Color?
1947 Color TV Outlook
1949: What Every Family Wants To Know About TV
1952: TV Goes to the Conventions
1954: Behind the Split Screens of TV
1955: The DuMont Electronicam
1955: Ernie Kovacs’ Special Effects
1957 Projection Screen TV
1964: Watch Your Favorite Show ANY Time!
