I have often commented on the cardboard viewfinder hoods on the NBC TK41s in New York and the custom-made VF hoods at NBC Burbank. CBS did the same thing though…in New York, they too used a lot of cardboard while at CBS Television City, they had custom VF hoods. Maybe it’s something in the water. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
The Bad Old Days Here’s Red Scare monger Sen. Joseph McCarthy in his favorite position…in front of a camera. Thank God for real newsmen and journalists like Edward R. Murrow who took him on and took him out. Source
Almost Show Time During warm up, Johnny takes a look at the audience. It doesn’t look like it, but there are 465 seats here in Studio 1. By the mid-1970s Tonight was the most profitable show on television, making NBC $50 to $60 million ($178,163,000 to $213,796,000 today) each year. Carson influenced the scheduling of […]
50,000 Requests For 728 Seats… Andrea Tibbits got one of them. Here’s Anthony Mason’s story on her night with The Beatles from last night’s CBS Evening News. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-beatles-fan-recalls-the-bands-american-debut-and-her-tiny-part-of-their-history/ 50 years later — A fan recalls watching the Beatles’ American debut The then 13-year-old scored a ticket to famed group’s appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show; […]
It’s Alive! This RCA TK30 Is Making Pictures Again! I’d heard that Ralph Sargent in Los Angeles had been working on restoring a TK30 and finally we have pictures and the story from Ralph as he told it on the Videokarma site. Thanks to our friend John Bolin for sending this along. Here’s what Ralph […]