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December 22, 1931…First Empire State Broadcast & TV Test History Update

  • December 22, 2016

December 22, 1931…First Empire State Broadcast & TV Test History Update On this day in 1931, NBC made it’s first experimental television broadcast from the new Empire State Building transmitter. Since the story of RCA’s early television transmission test sites is a bit muddled, I am taking this opportunity to clarify a few things with […]

The First Kinescope Images…”Colored Television”, 1933

  • December 26, 2016

The First Kinescope Images…”Colored Television”, 1933 Earlier this week, I posted a story on RCA/NBC’s first TV transmissions from the new Empire State Building tower, and mentioned an interesting side story was to come later…here it is. RCA/NBC’s 85th floor transmitters in the Empire State Building began experimental television transmissions from there on December 22, […]

1954: Behind the Split Screens of TV

  • May 1, 2016

Great article on how the first coast-to-coast, split-screen telecast of the 1954 Oscar ceremony was done. Awards were handed out in New York and Los Angeles at the same time, and the full story of how it was done is all here. This should bring back a lot of memories on how much Ma Bell […]

The Team That Came Up With The RCA TK 11/31

  • November 14, 2011

This is the team that came up with the RCA TK 11 – 31. Only known photo of the original engineering team with one of the first TK 11s at Camden plant. Photo from RCA Engineers Digest Nov 1952 donated by RCA Engineer Harry Wright. Source