I think it was January of 1954 when RCA introduced this tri-view set. Notice the remote jack box for the earpieces that gave you isolated audio on the screen you were most interested in. The speakers are in the bottom two panels and behind the top panel is a radio and turntable. They didn’t sell many of these and no, this is not the one LBJ had in his office…that was a custom job. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Walter Cronkite’s First Night As CBS News Anchorman It was 6:45, Monday April 16, 1962 when Walter Cronkite delivered his first news cast as the new anchor of ‘The Evening Edition Of CBS News’. His new set was in Studio 41 at Grand Central which had also been where Douglas Edwards had delivered the news, […]
May 30, 1949…WFBM Signs On With 10 Camera Indy 500 Coverage Operating now as WRTV, what is now Indiana’s oldest TV station, signed on the air on May 30, 1949 under the call sign WFBM-TV with a film documentary entitled “Crucible of Speed”, covering the history of the Indianapolis 500. Here’s where it gets interesting…that […]
1950s Demo Reel…Local Market Weather Package These twenty second forecast pieces were usually not in lieu of a local weather report inside a regular newscast, but were used during the day as sponsored “public interest” spots with a ten second sponsorship slide and VO at the top of each one. Telecine rooms were always busy […]
Laugh Tracks: RARE Black Box Found! A couple of years ago, this piece of television history popped up on ‘Antiques Roadshow’. Here is the video of the Charlie Douglas ‘Laff Box’ which was discovered among the items sold in a storage locker sale. Thankfully the new owner was curious, other wise, it would have gone […]