Is It Hot In Here Or Is It Just Me?

On January 12, 2014 - TV History

Is It Hot In Here Or Is It Just Me?

Here’s an RCA TK11 with all it’s doors open to cool off. This shot is from CBS Television City from around 1956 and taken on Stage 43 where ‘Climax’ was done. It was an anthology show with different live dramas each week and was much like ‘Play House 90’ and ‘General Electric Theater’. Unlike local station cameras, network cameras were on 8 to 10 hours a day and the tubes put out more heat which could cause the viewfinder to go out.

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6 Comments

  1. Don Cox January 13, 2014

    Still a common problem.

  2. John Roger Bolin January 12, 2014

    Take note of the CBS built custom viewfinder hood. CBS. like many, did not like the RCA snout VF hood. I have made one similar to this one for my TK-11B.

  3. Jose Rojas January 12, 2014

    wow

  4. Bob Storck January 12, 2014

    Same thing happened with the TK42s during a telethon in the early 70s at WBTV in Charlotte, NC. A few hours into the telethon (Jerry’s kids, I believe), the cameras all started misbehaving. We had to open the covers to keep them operating.
    This happened in both studios where we had one studio with the telethon and the other with the entertainment acts.

  5. Luiz Marxsen January 12, 2014

    I read that if the Orthicons are overheated, you have a loss of picture resolution…

  6. Ashley Scott January 12, 2014

    cool off the cameras and a chance to have a smoke