Voted “Best Use Of A Snow Shovel Handle”…1974
Voted “Best Use Of A Snow Shovel Handle”…1974
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Whatever works, eh?
Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, and CBC-TV ‘Hockey Night In Canada’.
It’s the then new “exploding pizza” logo that CBC introduced in 1974, indicating the broadcaster’s conversion to full-time NTSC colour for all of its programming.
it has my vote
Ah, my favorite camera: TK-44!
I’d guess that it also has the Schneider lens on the front . . . .
That’s Bill Ferguson now retired CBC Senior cameraman ” Hockey Night in Canada” Maple Leaf Gardens camera one position.
CBC folks are resourceful. and Hockey Night in Canada was the TOP show on CBC for most of a lifetime. (until Rogers overpaid for the rights)
Prior to the logo seen here, camera head art would have been the 1966 colour butterfly on the left, with “Radio-Canada” on the upper right, and “CBC” on the lower right.