Carrying the Ed Sullivan name means holding a piece of television history in my hands.…
Tag: Television
Dr. Charles N. Davis, Dean of Henry W. Grady College of Journalism, University of Georgia
Eyes Of A Generation is much, much more than the world’s greatest repository of television’s…
Jay Kernis, Producer, CBS Sunday Morning
“I started in radio in 1969 at the age of 17. After years at NPR,…
Ron Simon, Curator, The Paley Center for Media
I remember talking to the late John Frankenheimer, one of television’s greatest directors of the…
Dr. James L. Baughman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A rich visual montage, reminding us how wonderfully cumbersome the first generations of television were. For…
Max A. Schindler – Emmy TV Legend
I spent 46 years producing and directing news for NBC. I started in the “gee…
Jim Hergenrather, Historian, CBS Television City
When it comes to the history of something that captured your imagination as a child,…
Mike Conway, Indiana University – Author “The Origins Of Television News In America”
Bobby Ellerbee’s “Eyes of a Generation” project is one of the most important resources for…
Mike Clark, VP Sony Pictures Television (Ret.)
My television career began in 1968 at WCNY in Syracuse, where I was still in…
David Hazinski, NBC News – Chair, Broadcast Journalism UGA (Ret.)
You can’t talk about the Liberty Bell without talking about the American Revolution, and vice…
The Museum of Broadcast Technology
The sentiments expressed here are the sum of the feelings and emotions of the entire…
Jon Olson, Technical Director, NBC Burbank (Ret.)
Wow! What a lane of memories you’ve displayed on your website. I was with NBC…
Randy West, Network Game show, Talk, Variety, Award show Announcer, Author
From Philo Farnsworth’s first breakthroughs to today, thousands of people helped shape American television…
Dicky Howett, Author, “Television Innovations – 50 Technological Developments”
As an author, and lifelong student of television history, I consider The Eyes Of A…
Jan Kasoff, Lead Cameraman, NBC New York (Ret.)
As a retired NBC network television cameraman, I just wanted to tell you how much…
Charles “Cappy” Cappleman, CBS Chief of West Coast BO&E
In January 1954, I was hired at CBS Television City in Hollywood and worked there…
The Amazing Backstory of THE WORLD’S FIRST RCA COLOR CAMERAS
I would hope that if back in the 1970s, NBC knew what I am about…
American Masters: Johnny Carson
What more can one say about the man who has said it all himself? ENJOY!…
All You Ever Wanted to Know About NORELCO CAMERAS
This is mostly technical but a little political in places as this unnamed engineer was…
April 17, 1967…50 Years Ago, “The Joey Bishop Show” Debuted
ABC's conversations about getting serious in late night programming began in the fall of 1966.…
The Amazingly Precise History of Color Television from Ed Reitan
Ed Reitan's Color Television History KTLA's 1955 Colorcast of The Tournament of Roses Parade (clipping…