As you look at these numbers, consider this. What cost $100,000 in 1975 dollars now costs $440,030. If you remember from a few days back, “Miami Vice” cost almost $1.3 million per episode when it debuted in 1984. Anyone have a chart like this for today’s shows? Enjoy and share. -Bobby Ellerbee
Ultra Rare Photo & Video…In More Than One Way It’s not often that we (1) find a color shot from television’s black and white days, or (2) get a great look out into CBS Studio 33 from the control room, but what we have here goes even deeper. At first glance, you may think this […]
Here are about 16 images from Georgia’s first TV station, WSB-TV in Atlanta, showing their RCA TK30s at work. The station signed on September 29, 1948 and use the TK30 till around 1954, when a few TK11s were added. In the early ’60s, WSB went to the RCA TK60s, then got the first delivered TK42s. […]
“The Howdy Doody Show” wasn’t just early television — it defined it. As network TV’s first daily program and later the first daily show broadcast in color, it set the pace for everything that followed. With the help of Howdy historian Burt Dubrow, I’ve pulled together a 41‑page deep dive filled with rare photos, firsthand […]
JUST ADDED TO THE COLLECTION! I’m happy to share these first pictures of an Ikegami 377 that I have just added to my collection. The green CBS logos are added as a tribute to 46 year CBS veteran cameraman Dave Dorsett who retired from the David Letterman show in December, 2011. Each camera on that […]