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WOIC-TV (1949–1950)
WTOP-TV (1950–1978)
WDVM-TV (1978–1986)
WUSA-TV (1986-present)
On the other hand, today WEWS in Cleveland celebrates 65 years on the air with the same call letters, same channel and same ownership. Now that’s rare! Congratulations!
August 9, 1936…Jesse Owens Won His 4th Gold Medal In Berlin The first live television coverage of a sports event in world history occurred during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. These games were televised by two German firms, Telefunken and Fernseh. Telefunken’s two large stationary cameras were based on RCA technology and the […]
The Ikegami HK312 E Here’s Ted Koppel with the triax version of the HK312 at ABC’s Washington news studio around 1986. I think the HK312 D model was a triax camera as well and may have still had the dark brown viewfinder like the A model. The big bulge on the side is the triax […]
Wow! This nine-page article from Mechanix Illustrated is full of pictures, but the story is the biggie. TV had a lot of problems getting off the ground and a lot of those are laid out here. Sarnoff is being pushed by the government, costs of development are explored, problems with linking the coasts, and a […]
Republican National Convention: 1940 This is an RCA Iconoscope camera from experimental station W3XE (now KYW) covering the RNC in Philadelphia for NBC in June of 1940, where Wendell Willkie was chosen to run against FDR. The channel 3 facility in Philadelphia is one of the world’s oldest television stations. It began in 1932 as […]
