August 15, 1948…CBS Debuts First, Live Nightly News Broadcast On this day in 1948, Douglas Edwards became the first, live daily anchor of a network news show. In the 3 minute video below, Dan Rather tells the story nicely, so take a look. Just to be clear, there was news on CBS and NBC before […]
October 10, 2007…The Beginning Of The End For NBC Burbank Some nine years ago, NBC’s Brian Williams broke the news. “Days Of Our Lives”, which airs on NBC is still there, but it’s their production company that rents space in the building and not NBC. Beautiful downtown Burbank will never be the same. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgKBAQrvVqs NBCUniversal […]
Picture Parade 3…Space Cadets, A Whole Nation Of Us! In the 60s, space missions were huge events and networks had cameras everywhere explaining not only the mission but the science behind all this and we ate it up. It was a great time in America. Here’s CBS owned KMOX giving us a look at a […]
‘Westinghouse Studio One’, The Scarlet Letter: April 1950 In 1948, ‘Westinghouse Studio One’ made a quantum leap from radio to television. The television series was seen on CBS from 1948 through 1958, under several variant titles: Studio One Summer Theater, Summer Theater, Westinghouse Studio One and Westinghouse Summer Theater. CBS produced the show in New […]