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On the left is Nancy Cronkite and on the right, sister Kathy with Paul and Ringo after the Saturday rehearsal. I wonder if Walter brought them? The girls returned Sunday night for the live show. There is a story that Jack Paar’s daughter Randi, brought Julie and Tricia Nixon to the show, but the story is not true. One guest at the Sunday dress rehearsal was Leonard Bernstein.
How Howard Hughes Unwittingly Brought Hollywood’s Movies To TV On March 5, 1956, “King Kong” debuted on WOR TV, New York. This was the first time the 1933 RKO classic was shown on television anywhere. The debut set records for viewing with an estimated 80% of television families in the area watching it on WOR’s […]
It was born in October of 1951 and here’s Charles Osgood’s story on it’s development on the 50th Anniversary in 2001. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB63odkphhg To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the CBS eye in 2001, Charles Osgood did this report on the creation of the famous logo. Source
December 11, 1985…GE Buys RCA, A Dark Day For America Begins Why this headline on the sale of RCA to GE? Because on the grander scale, this was the first big corporate media take over…the kind that, until Ronald Reagan became president, would have not been allowed under anti trust laws. Since then, media consolidation […]
Very Interesting! ‘Search For Tomorrow’…The LIVE Episode! On August 4, 1983 the master tape and back up copy of one of the show’s daily episodes went missing! By now the show had moved to NBC from CBS and WNBC’s Jack Cafferty is reporting here on the event of doing a live show. Even Don Pardo […]