NBC was televising shows from a few of their radio studios before they were converted…
The Early History of WEAF…NBC Radio’s Flagship Station
A rare document looks at the earliest days of the station that NBC bought from…
RARE! NBC Television Studio Technique, 1940
As NBC continued to refine its efforts toward commercial broadcasting's debut, here's what its staff…
NBC – Recent Television Developments, 1940
From none other than Vladimir Zworykin, and R. E. Shelby, here is an engineer's dream…
NBC Television Lighting, 1940
Fabled NBC Studio 3H proved not to be only a testing ground for the new…
The Planning & Design of NBC Studio 3H…Home Of Electronic Television
This is TV MEGA HISTORY! In 1935, RCA leaned forward into the development and testing…
NBC Broadcast Operations, Program Schedule Sheets, 1949-51
Four pages of Operations Sheets from NBC Television's early days. This is the best ever…
August 25, 1968…NBC Debuts Color Portables In Chicago
The day before the riotous Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago, NBC broadcast color images…
EXCLUSIVE…Inside The First Color Television Remote Unit
Thanks to Chuck Pharis, and his very rare RCA "Red Book", I have new information…
THE NBC BUILT, ND-8G CAMERAS
UPDATED March 3, 2023: Around 2010, I found a photo of an odd looking NBC…
THE SECRET BACKSTORY OF THE RCA TK 44
Chapter One: by Bobby Ellerbee Over a period of months in 2009, I spoke…
The Virtual Archives of RCA Engineer Harry Wright
He helped design the RCA TK42, TK42XX, TK43, TK44, TK47, TK48, TK76 and more. The…
CBS Field Sequential Color Cameras at Studio 57
Below I have collected more than twenty images of the fabled CBS Field Sequential Color…
Six Decades of “Tonight”
THE TONIGHT SHOW: Six Decades of Television and Camera History A look back at more…
WSB-TV: The Early Years
Here are about 16 images from Georgia’s first TV station, WSB-TV in Atlanta, showing their…
WAGA-TV: The Early Years
This was Atlanta’s second TV station. It was a CBS affiliate until the late 1980s.…
WKY-TV: First In Local Live Color
In this piece, you'll see television history in the making that starts in 1949 and…
ULTRA RARE HOWDY DOODY IMAGES! The Original Howdy…
Be sure to click through these historic images, as I have made extensive comments on…
June 8, 1938…The New RCA Orthicon Camera Debuts
This was a step up from the Iconoscope in it's light sensitivity, but it was…
Television’s First Studio Camera…RCA’s Studio 3H Iconoscopes
In 1935, two years after Radio City opened, NBC Radio Studio 3H was converted to…
Surprise! CBS Had Marconi Mark IV’s In 1960…
For those of us interested in the technical side of broadcast history, this comes as…