TeleTales #69…NBC Burbank Studio 1: A Star Is Born
Here’s the studio under construction in 1952. The legend is, Bob Hope helped design this studio and may have been responsible for the massive audience area and it’s steep incline so that no seat had an obstructed view of the stage. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
December 18, 1953…First Color Commercial Airs On WPTZ, Philadelphia In yesterday’s post, we learned of the FCC’s December 17, 1953 decision adopting RCA’s Compatible Color System. On Friday, December 18, 1953 at about 11:15 am, the FCC issued to WPTZ, Channel 3, its official color experimental license which authorized the transmission of color video on […]
Follow Up: Jerry Lewis and Video Assist A few days ago, I posted a photo of Lewis with a Dumont Electronicam and told some of the story of his work in developing video assist for movies. Here is the whole story from an article I wrote a while back complete with some interesting photos with […]
December 17, 1976…WTCG Atlanta Becomes First US Satellite TV Station At 1:00 Eastern Time the afternoon of December 17, 1976, WTCG’s signal was beamed via the Satcom 1 satellite to four cable systems in Grand Island, Nebraska; Newport News, Virginia; Troy, Alabama and Newton, Kansas. The first broadcast was the 1948 film ‘Deep Waters’, which […]
December 17, 1989…’The Simpsons’ Debuts On Fox..D’OH! Here are two great short videos that cover a lot of the history and creation of the show with not much overlap. The embedded video below features the creators and how ‘The Simpsons’ grew from bumper shorts on ‘The Tracy Ulman Show’ into it’s own dynasty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ8aSQZ8vJg In […]
Hope owned the land in Burbank where NBC built.