It was born in October of 1951 and here’s Charles Osgood’s story on it’s development on the 50th Anniversary in 2001.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB63odkphhg
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the CBS eye in 2001, Charles Osgood did this report on the creation of the famous logo.
Designed by Alda V Bedford and Knut J Magnusson, the patent assignment went to RCA which I think was their employer. It was a surprise to me that the lifting column is powered by an electric motor located in the base, and the up and down action is controlled in the left panhandle of the […]
Thanks to Val Ginter in NYC, here is a rare copy of the 1953 Gray catalog with a price list at the end. This machine was able to televise opaque cards, which was the forerunner of transparent slides. It also had add on features that would allow a news type horizontal ticker scroll across the […]
An NBC press release heralds a new studio at NBC’s Burbank facility, December 1983.
It was March 27, 1955, when NBC Burbank was dedicated…two and a half years after it opened October 4, 1952. Why the long wait? It was all about color. The new NBC black and white facilities at Burbank were Studios 1 and 3 and were in heavy use from the start, but until the FCC […]