Here is a rare mapping of how all the dozens of elements of the multi-day broadcast would lay out. Notice ground zero is Studio 8H and just to the right, we see Studio 5H…the breaking news studio we talked about in the post just before this, which was later renamed 5HN for headline news. Thanks to Gady Reinhold for this treasure! Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Picture Parade #2…’On The Town’, First Musical Shot On Location This 1949 film starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Betty Garrett was the first musical to be shot on location. Not all of it, but all of the outside scenes, were shot over a five day period in Manhattan. It rained three of those days, […]
Super Bowl…The Magic Of Half Time! Amazing Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNRm7OwXpGo Two videos here…below, rare shots of the stage being set up for Madonna in 2012, and above is the performance. Amazingly, they have only 6 minutes to set up and 6 to tear down these incredibly complex stages. I hear there are 600 on the stage […]
Pretty Maids All In A Row… Last month I posted the other four pix from this ABC event at Pebble Beach in the late 60s, but just found this fifth photo I had forgotten about. These are the dozen TK41Cs that Roone Arlidge ordered for ABC in 1966. RCA had orders for a dozen more […]
This Week In Sports TV History…Jackie Robinson Scores Again In the photo, Leo Durocher welcomes Jackie Robinson to television in the brand new Shea Stadium. On April 17, 1965, Robinson became the first black network broadcaster for Major League Baseball. In 1965, ABC provided the first-ever nationwide baseball coverage with weekly Saturday broadcasts on a […]