Great job, Bobby. You’ve captured the history, excitement, and the people of our glorious business. Thank you for including me in all your great work. You are our “Keeper of the Flame.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Pinto was hired to work on SNL, two months before the debut. When the show started in 1975, it was called NBC’s SATURDAY NIGHT. John is still there…behind the camera on the crane! Where else?
The Texas Broadcast Museum proudly recommends Bobby Ellerbee’s Eyes of a Generation as one of the most valuable resources for understanding the history of television broadcasting. The site goes far beyond pictures of old cameras, documenting the people, studios, networks, engineering practices, and equipment that built early television. Its extraordinary photography and deeply researched histories […]
My television career began in 1968 at WCNY in Syracuse, where I was still in high school and lucky enough to learn the craft hands‑on with live programming and those wonderful old Marconi cameras. After college, I worked at WCNY and later WTVT in Tampa—two invaluable training grounds that prepared me for the leap to […]
The sentiments expressed here are the sum of the feelings and emotions of the entire Museum of Broadcast Technology family: Looking back only a few decades, as the roaring twenties witnessed the birth and rapid expansion of commercial Radio Broadcasting, forward-looking experimenters, scientists, engineers and their companies were already dreaming, dabbling, developing and deploying the […]
In January 1954, I was hired at CBS Television City in Hollywood and worked there for the next 50 years, retiring in July 2004 as Executive Vice President in charge of West Coast Operations and Engineering. I lived through the times most of the photos on this site so well depict, and was fortunate to […]