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
A Rarity…Inside The First RCA Color Semi Trailer A few days ago we saw the first RCA Color trucks at their 1954 debut at the Rose Parade. Those were the large bus type vans, but I think the tractor-trailer version came along in late 59 or early 60. The photo on the left is the […]
July 5, 1982…”NBC News Overnight” Debuts EDITOR NOTE: The video at the bottom of the page is cued up to start at Linda’s final sign off and a full roll of credits for the show, with video of all 60 staff members and some familiar faces. BUT…the whole show is there should you wish to see […]
A Tour Of CBS Television City With Edward R. Murrow This is a November 1953 broadcast of ‘See It Now’. In the first part of this half hour show, we’ll see the extensive and state of the art lighting in Studio 31, Art Linkletter’s show in Studio 41 and Jack Benny rehearsing upstairs in the […]
Republican National Convention: 1940 This is an RCA Iconoscope camera from experimental station W3XE (now KYW) covering the RNC in Philadelphia for NBC in June of 1940, where Wendell Willkie was chosen to run against FDR. The channel 3 facility in Philadelphia is one of the world’s oldest television stations. It began in 1932 as […]