How TV Covered Death Of President Kennedy…Broadcasting Magazine Here is the The December 2, 1963 issue of Broadcasting, which includes an article over 10 pages deep (starts on page 36) that gives us a rare look at how the networks swung into action after receiving the news from Dallas. The main article covers many of […]
Episode 1, Season 1, ‘The Roy Rogers Show’ This is the first ever episode of the TV classic and it aired on NBC as 6:30 (ET) Sunday night, December 30, 1951. The series ran one hundred new episodes on NBC for six seasons and ended on June 9, 1957. Beginning in 1961, CBS broadcast reruns […]
Almost Show Time During warm up, Johnny takes a look at the audience. It doesn’t look like it, but there are 465 seats here in Studio 1. By the mid-1970s Tonight was the most profitable show on television, making NBC $50 to $60 million ($178,163,000 to $213,796,000 today) each year. Carson influenced the scheduling of […]
While I’m At It… Since I just posted the 1948 color photo below of a WGN TK10, I thought I would follow it it up with a shot of the only known surviving camera from the original 8 that WGN bought in 1948. This camera came to me about 2 years ago and I am […]