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.
MUST SEE HISTORY OF EARLY LOS ANGELES TELEVISION! KTLA’s 70th Anniversary Is Today! January 22, 1947 – 2017 This amazing video is packed with ultra rare historical footage of not only KTLA, but from the early days of all the Los Angeles television stations! The show is hosted by Bob Hope, Betty White, Steve Allen, […]
These Photos Unlocks Some Mysteries! If you ever wondered what happened to NBC’s “Felix The Cat” mechanical camera after tests were concluded in 1932, here’s the answer. It was on display at the RCA Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. In the diagram, we see it in the Museum being displayed along […]
Now This Is Interesting! Introduction Of The Auricon Pro 1200 We don’t spend much time on film cameras here, but this is such an interesting piece of film, I thought you would like to see it. Thanks Steve Williams for sharing this. At first, I thought the “studio finder” was perhaps an electronic video camera […]
Above is a shot of my RCA TK10 from WGN…one of the original eight TK10s the station had in their studios, with four RCA TK30s in use on two mobile units. WGN, Channel 9, is one of the nation’s first and only enduring independent stations, but it wasn’t always that way. In the beginning, […]