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
World’s Easiest Trivia Question In this November 1954 photo we see the fist boy owner, Tommy Rettig who played Jeff Miller, and his dog _________. In ’57 Rettig left and was replaced by Jon Provist as Timmy Martin. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised […]
Inside The First RCA Experimental Color Cameras This is Richard C. Webb, designer of the first simultaneous, all-electronic color camera with the Wardman Park dolly mounted camera (as seen in the photo below) with it’s chassis and viewfinder removed. At the front of the cameras is the early optical system of dichroic mirrors bouncing the […]
NBC Tour Time #2…30 Rock As Only David Letterman Can Show It Just for fun, here a clip from around 1985, just before the GE sale, with Dave bring out some of the many selling points. I particularly like the trip to the Tom Brokaw news set;>) Thanks to David Crosthwait for the clip. Enjoy […]
August 13, 1950: Hayloft Hoedown Brand new in March of 1950, here’s real ingenuity at work at WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky. These Dumont 124s are shooting a Saturday night country music show and to get the great high shots without a crane, rolling scaffolding is pretty good alternative. Thanks to Craig Harper for the photo. […]
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?