‘Red Skelton Show’ Rehearsal With Fred Mertz & Ricky Ricardo
In the foreground, kids from ‘The Art Linkletter Show’ take in a rare moment on their tour of Television City. On stage, Red rehearses with guests William Frawley and Desi Arnaz.
WXYZ, Detroit: Suitcases Full Of Money Without WXYZ, ABC may not have made it. Lytle Hoover, who was then directing The Soupy Sales Show from there, told me that every Friday morning the GM flew to NYC with a suitcase full of money so ABC could cover payroll checks. WXYZ-TV began broadcasting October 9, 1948 […]
SPECIAL NBC NY STUDIOS HISTORY…FIRST HAND ACCOUNT This article includes A MUST READ, FIRST HAND ACCOUNT from one of NBC’s veteran cameramen, Frank Vierling. His story starts 68 years ago today, on his first day, January 6, 1949, and gives us details of the little known NBC mobile camera units used INSIDE 30 Rockefeller Plaza, […]
On February 5, 1967, the Smothers Brothers debuted on CBS and went head to head with the Cartwright brothers on NBC’s Sunday night ratings giant “Bonanza”. To everyone’s (even CBS’s) amazement, in less than a month, they had taken the ratings lead! “The rest” as they say, “is history”…but it was a history that was as […]
November 7, 1954…”Face The Nation” Debuts On CBS Wait till you see this video of the first ever presentation of “Face The Nation”! The first thing you see is a closeup of a camera’s lens turret, in a widening shot, that would be the standard open for several years. The “guest” camera is behind the […]