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 This is also home to unique, unpublished information contributed by authors, and a good example is the great AT&T Book…Connecting The Continent For Radio And Television by our friend Mark Durenberger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.
WGN-TV’s Early History
The History Of Video Tape Development By The Man Who Did It!
GE PE 250 & 350 Catalog
NBC’s “Television, 1947-1972”
Some Little Known Facts Of Early Television Production…
A Brief History Of Television’s First Real Home…NBC’s Studio 3H
Television Milestones…1939 – 1940 Historical Events Timeline
NBC’s First Television Station, 1928
NBC’s Felix The Cat Camera…Displayed At 1939 World’s Fair
Amazing What You Can See, If You Know What You Are Seeing!
‘Saturday Night Live’…Behind The Scenes Of A Typical Week
First Sideline Camera Used, October 1957
FANTASTIC! One Show, Start To Finish…Rare 1949 CBS Picture Book
Richard Pryor, NBC & The 7 Second Tape Delay
The Early Days Of Audio Recording – Bing Crosby & Ampex, Part 1
The Early Days Of Audio Recording – Bing Crosby & Ampex, Part 2
A FANTASTIC HISTORY OF AUDIO AND VIDEO TAPE!
The 1963 RCA Camera Catalog…All 109 Pages
The First Known Videotape Edited Show…November 20, 1958, CBS
