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 This is also home to unique, unpublished information contributed by authors, and a good example is the great AT&T Book…Connecting The Continent For Radio And Television by our friend Mark Durenberger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.
The History Of The Moving Image
The Dawn Of Tape
NBC’s Chimes History, 1950-1978
“Radio Age,” 1948-1950
GE Television Broadcasting Equipment, 1944
NBC Facilities Rate Book, 1959
NBC’s Radio City West, 1938
1955: NBC “Color City” On The Air Tonight
Expansion At NBC Burbank
1953: “This Is Color TV”
Behind The Scenes With Eddie Brinkmann
CBS Color Tests, 1951
Don Pardo Special Biography
TV Pool Coverage Of The 1948 Conventions
