Museum Of Broadcast Technology: Tape Room 2
In this video, we see the attempt to playback a Boston kids show tape from the ’60s. Once the tape plays, check out the action on the show…it’s great. Again, this shows my good friends Paul Beck, Jay Ballard and Mark Berman in room full of restored quad machines.
The Original Amateur Hour With Ted Mack: Part 1 Long before ‘American Idol’, ‘Star Search’ and even Arthur Godfrey’s ‘Talent Scout’ came to television, there was this. As you’ll see below in the other 3 parts, this was the granddaddy of them all. Between the radio and television years, the show discovered the likes of […]
Jack Paar: The Joke, Walk Out & Return…The Whole Story On February 11, 1960, Jack Parr walked off The Tonight Show for a month after NBC censors edited out a segment, taped the night before. As he left his desk, he said, “I am leaving The Tonight Show. There must be a better way of […]
October 31, 1950…Trick Or Treat? My Parents Would Say, BOTH! Yep, today’s my birthday and at 3:20 this afternoon, I’ll be 64 years old. I’m not sure, but that probably makes me the oldest student at The University Of Georgia. Most don’t know, but in August, I started back to school at my old alma […]
Remembering Grant Tinker…. Grant Tinker, former CEO of NBC, dies at age 90 Grant Tinker, former chairman and CEO of NBC and architect of many successes for the network, has died at age 90. He was also a former husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore. Source