Remembering Grant Tinker….
Grant Tinker, former CEO of NBC, dies at age 90
Grant Tinker, former chairman and CEO of NBC and architect of many successes for the network, has died at age 90. He was also a former husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore.
MAJOR NEW YORK STUDIOS HISTORY UPDATE…. WOR – ABC – NBC – VIDEO TAPE CENTER/ 67th Street Studios In this RCA Broadcast News magazine from the fall of 1950, starting on page 46, this 27 page article gives us a complete and total tour of the new WOR Television Center on 67th Street, AND, some […]
Three pages of historic articles on the start of the iconic Chicago station.
Need A Lift Dinah? In a 1952 episode of the twice weekly, 15 minute ‘Dinah Shore Show’, our star hitches a ride on a Panoram dolly with an extra sideboard. In ’56, Shore began hosting a monthly series of one-hour full-color spectaculars as part of NBC’s ‘The Chevy Show’ series. These proved so popular that […]
November 2, 1959…The Game Show Scandal Breaks Wide Open It was on this day in 1959 that Charles Van Doren admitted before a congressional committee that he had indeed received the answers to the questions on “Twenty One”. Here is Herb Stempel discussing loosing to Charles Van Doren by missing the “Marty’ Question. For all […]