At this link are 29 classic images taken and shared by our dear friend Dennis Degan. Through the course of his television carier, he has worked as engineer and editor but is also a first rate photographer so enjoy! Be sure to notice the captions on each image when you move your mouse over the lower left corner.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/sets/72157600588273750/
November 17, 1968…’Heidi’ Trumps The Jets – Raiders Finale On NBC Did you see this live? I did…I had just turned 18 and that Sunday night, I learned a new word from my dad, which I can’t repeat here. This was AN EVENT like no other in television sports and there are stories on top […]
CLASSIC: ‘Requiem For A Heavyweight’ RESTORED TELEVISION October 11, 1956, ‘Playhouse 90’ presented ‘A Requiem For A Heavyweight’ written by Rod Serling. The 90 minute, live teleplay won a Peabody Award, the first given to an individual script, and helped establish Serling’s reputation. The broadcast was directed by Ralph Nelson and is generally considered one […]
MAGNIFICENT! Thanks to Glenn Mack for this fantastic photo taken during a rehearsal of ‘The Doctors’ around 1972. Although the RCA TK44A was introduced in 1968 and the better ‘B’ model in 1971, the TK41s could still hold their own and were still in service in some NBC NY studios as late as ’73 including […]
New Year’s Eve At Times Square: A History Lesson Here’s a brand spanking new RCA TK30 above the entrance to the Hotel Astor in Times Square in 1946 shooting the merry makers below. Since the mid 1800s, Trinity Church was the gathering point, but the celebration moved to Times Square in 1904 as part of […]