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August 15, 1948…CBS Debuts First, Live Nightly News Broadcast
August 15, 1948...CBS Debuts First, Live Nightly News Broadcast On this day in 1948, Douglas…
August 11, 2009…72 Year Run Of “The Guiding Light” Ends
August 11, 2009...72 Year Run Of "The Guiding Light" Ends The Guiding Light is credited…
August 10, 1948…WJZ-TV (WABC) Signs On In New York
August 10, 1948...WJZ-TV (WABC) Signs On In New York New York's Channel 7 came to…
August 9, 1936…Jesse Owens Won His 4th Gold Medal In Berlin
August 9, 1936...Jesse Owens Won His 4th Gold Medal In Berlin The first live television…
EXCLUSIVE…Inside The First Color Television Remote Unit
Thanks to Chuck Pharis, and his very rare RCA "Red Book", I have new information…
Happy 90th Birthday! Tony Bennett…Born August 3, 1926
Happy 90th Birthday! Tony Bennett...Born August 3, 1926 Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born in Astoria,…
THE NBC BUILT, ND-8G CAMERAS
UPDATED March 3, 2023: Around 2010, I found a photo of an odd looking NBC…
THE SECRET BACKSTORY OF THE RCA TK 44
Chapter One: by Bobby Ellerbee Over a period of months in 2009, I spoke…
July 31, 1995…The Circuit Is Reversed As Disney Buys ABC
July 31, 1995...The Circuit Is Reversed As Disney Buys ABC Did you know that in…
THANK YOU…AGAIN From Eyes Of A Generation!
THANK YOU...AGAIN From Eyes Of A Generation! Yesterday, this page hit a new all-time-high weekly…
July 30, 1943…RCA Announces Sale Of NBC Blue Network To Ed Noble
July 30, 1943...RCA Announces Sale Of NBC Blue Network To Ed Noble It would be…
CBS Field Sequential Color Cameras at Studio 57
Below I have collected more than twenty images of the fabled CBS Field Sequential Color…
July 29, 1957…The Jack Paar Era Of “Tonight” Begins
July 29, 1957...The Jack Paar Era Of "Tonight" Begins Location wise, the "Tonight" show with…
Jack Paar…Master Of Words – Storyteller Supreme
Jack Paar...Master Of Words - Storyteller Supreme Earlier today, I posted an article celebrating the…
The Best TV Book I Have Ever Read!
The BEST Television History Book I Have Ever Read! The book is, "The Origins Of…
Six Decades of “Tonight”
THE TONIGHT SHOW: Six Decades of Television and Camera History A look back at more…
Happy Birthday….CBS Broadcast Center, Born July 26, 1964
On July 26, 1964, the first broadcast finally originated from a building CBS had owned…
July 25, 1964…CBS Radio Bids Farewell To 485 Madison Avenue
(Photo above: CBS News Studio 9 with Murrow in suit and the short man in…
1936 & 2016…Convention Coverage Eerily Similar For NBC & CBS
1936 & 2016...Convention Coverage Eerily Similar For NBC & CBS Believe it or not, the…
See Anyone You Know? 1984 Pool Cameramen Shoot Each Other
See Anyone You Know? 1984 Pool Cameramen Shoot Each Other With the Republican National Convention…