Here’s the an election set in Studio TV 2 at ABC New York with Peter Jennings down front. The evening news show comes from TV 3. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
TeleTales #90…Living On Tulsa Time: KOTV In October of 1949, KOTV became Oklahoma’s second television station and claimed to have the largest studios in the US, which were built in a former Intentional Harvester dealership. This photo from 1952 shows that, even though they didn’t have pedestals for their RCA TK30s, they did have the […]
Hot Off The Press…New York Times This week, I had the pleasure of meeting and comparing notes with reporter James Barron, who’s article in today’s New York Times appears at this link. Like me, he’s been doing a lot of deep digging through fifty year old details to uncover some of the people and circumstances […]
The Latest And Greatest In Tape…RCA’s TCR 100, 1970 I think this was one of the first times RCA beat Ampex to the punch in videotape innovations. Here’s a look at the RCA sales demo of their new quad videotape cassette unit, the TCR 100. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM_2upiGUO0 RCA TCR-100 Videotape Cartridge System, Sales Reel From the […]
Durante’s Signature Sign Off…Who Was Mrs. Calabash? The most revered part of Jimmy’s show was the finale when he would slowly fade away walking through a succession of spotlights, pausing in each one to either look down or look back at the audience (see the video clip below). He did this after bidding farewell, commenting, […]