TeleTales #1…Ever See One Of These Before?
I think it was January of 1954 when RCA introduced this tri-view set. Notice the remote jack box for the ear pieces that gave you isolated audio on the screen you were most interested in. The speakers are in the bottom two panels and behind the top panel is a radio and turntable. They didn’t sell many of these and no, this is not the one LBJ had in his office…that was a custom job. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
The History Of ‘The Match Game’…MUST SEE! From start to finish, this is the whole story of ‘The Match Game’. From the TK41 days at NBC days to the Norelco days at Television City and LOTS more. After a great intro, the real history of the show that began in 1962 at NBC starts a […]
TeleTales #63…Groovy! KHJ At The Beach, 1967 Thanks to Dave Miller, here’s a home movie shot at Santa Monica Beach in ’67 showing the taping of “Groovy” which was a local teen dance show. Notice the big silver connector on the side of the new Norlco PC60s…that is a converter box that takes the camera […]
An Hour With Rocky & Bullwinkle…The Whys, Hows & Whos Of The Show The Wayback Machine is set for 1963 and everybody is here! On top of tons of cartoon footage, we meet the voices, writers and masterminds – Bill Scott and Jay Ward – of the most beloved TV cartoon characters of our generation. […]
A Follow Up….The First Teleprompters Today’s earlier post on the Jess Oppenheimer through-the-lens prompter took me here. These photos show the first ever teleprompters in television. The large CBS photo is from December of 1950 and the show is ‘The First Hundred Years’. It was the first ongoing TV soap opera in the US that […]
Didn’t know these were sold commercially. We had a version of this at WTVT in Tampa in a conference room.
Never saw one. Cool 🙂
I’ll bet that setup drew some current!
I can’t imagine how much that thing weighed.
Weight is one factor. How about the heat being generated by all of those tubes. Hope that would had been well ventilated.
3 in 1. Cool! 🙂
Not a bad idea.
The idea originally was the ability to watch all 3 Networks at once.
tv was a huge thing in my childhood. i see it about as healthy as smoking cigarettes.
At least they were all in the same room. ..so parents could see what the kids were watching
In 1954 they probably thought three screens is all you would ever need!
as a Kid I used to imagine having soething like this, but for the 12 cable channels we got at that time. or at least CBC, CTV NBC, CBS and ABC plus PBS of course.
Nordmende Spectra Color Studio, a german TV set from 1967:
Hi tech
Aaah….the days when one would get dressed up to watch tv.
Or as Evertz called it back then…the VIP3.
I’ll just watch Felix the Cat…the adults can have the other shows!
It must have been very scarce or my mother would have bought one back then
Today you would need 200 screens…or a huge video wall.
Oh yeah, my dad would have “loved” this: three flavors of chewing gum, an intellectual wasteland, perfect for my son. Interesting a loop of felix the cat was used in early TV … programming was a bitch: still is.
Coming from a time when it was a big deal to just *own* a TV, that thing must have been freakishly expensive.
How much did it cost?