NBC 75th Anniversary Opening
This short clip is a lot of fun, but the number of famous faces in the crowd is just amazing! Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnE1sXCVgxc
Kelsey Grammer’s segment of the NBC 75th Anniversary Special.
Behind The Scenes At “The Camel News Caravan”, 1953 This month, we’ve done several stories on the history of the early TV news shows, and I thought this would be a nice compliment to all that we’ve seen. This is a short but sweet article on how John Cameron Swayze’s show was done by his […]
America’s New Year’s Eve Broadcast History: The Lombardo Years Starting in 1927, Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians played New Year’s Eve shows on Chicago’s WBBM radio. In ’28, WBBM became one of the original CBS Radio Network stations and the executives in New York became aware of the very popular Chicago celebration and in […]
Memory Lane…Debut Ads For Some Of TV’s Most Memorable Shows Thanks to Maureen Carney, here are some classic newspaper ads for the debuts of some shows that went on to make history. Enjoy! -Bobby Ellerbee Source
The Landmark Achievements Of “The Colgate Comedy Hour” There are three major landmarks in television history that occurred on this show which ran from September of 1950 through December of 1955. The first landmark is “the wheel format” which basically inserted rotating hosts on a weekly basis. The network also used the wheel format on […]