This is one of several posters MAD artist Jack Davis did for Ampex. These were usually given out at NAB conventions in the early 70s. I have been asked many times if there are hi res versions, but not that I can find. Anyone have better images? Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Tonight’s The Night At ESPN…DC 2 Goes Live At 11 Tonight at 11, the brand new 194,000-square-foot, five-studio media center called Digital Center 2 goes live. ESPN’s current studio was built in 2004…it’s just a decade old and already is being treated as outdated. There’s more at the link to this Boston Globe story and […]
More Of The Eyes Of A Generation Collection… On the left, an RCA TK42 and on the right, the last RCA monochrome studio camera, the TK60. Both have a 5 inch Image Orthicon inside. That I know of, there are only 15 TK42s left and only 3 TK43s, which is the same as the TK42, […]
Welcome To ‘Beautiful Downtown Burbank’ This is the start of ‘The Tonight Show’ in Studio 1 in Burbank. The move from New York was in May of 1972 and reruns filled the gap. I think this photo is from the week prior to air as the cast and crew began a few days of rehearsal […]
New York-Boston Microwave Relay Inaugurated…February 1948 On Monday, I posted a map of NBC’s television network from July 1, 1948 which for the first time included Boston. Thanks to Bill Neese, here an article on that link up from a February 1948 Bell Telephone publication. The map showed that aside from Boston, Baltimore, Washington and […]