On December 12, 1937, the world’s first electronic television remote units were delivered by RCA to NBC in New York City. The dual vehicle system, consisting two, 26 foot buses included one for production and one for transmission. The production bus provided two portable single-lens Iconoscope cameras and the support equipment. The transmission bus contained […]
NBC takes a look at the many big advances it made in 1948, like increasing the size of the TV network from 4 to 25 stations, introducing Kinescopes and much more.
Sig Mickelson was the first president of CBS News, and it is from that insider’s view that we get this amazing story. In only 8 pages, he explains how CBS public affairs management’s best laid plans to make Sunday afternoons their bull’s eye for public service programming got shot out of a cannon, and how […]