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
“NBC Studio 1H”…Hurely’s Bar As you can see in the photo below, Hurley’s Bar (which opened in 1892) was just a half a block away from NBC’s studio entrance, making it the nearest watering hole for everyone from stars to stage hands. It became the favorite for radio, television, newspaper and sports celebrities as well […]
December 15, 1977…A Sex Pistols Odyssey Begins For NBC And Me! On this day in 1977, one of the biggest stories in that year’s music history began, and I was part of it. On December 15, two days before their scheduled appearance on ‘Saturday Nigh Live’, The Sex Pistols were denied visas to the US, […]
November 28, 1925…”The Grand Ole Opry” Was Born “The Grand Ole Opry” started as the “WSM Barn Dance” in the new fifth-floor radio station studio of the National Life & Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on November 28, 1925. On October 18, 1925, WSM management began a program featuring “Dr. Humphrey Bate and […]
How The First Music Video Package Helped Create “American Bandstand” The Snader Telescriptions were not only the first ever music videos…these classic music shorts also played a direct role in the creation of “American Bandstand”! We’ll get to the Bandstand part after this short fact packed video on the history of the Snader project. It […]