The location of the three studios was inside New York City’s Wanamaker’s Department Store. Here is the announcement in a few magnified parts and a couple of photos of the huge main studio it’s control room.
Picture Parade 1…The Identities Are Revealed This photo gets posted a lot, but never with the names and event, so, let’s fix that. The photo was one of a few dozen taken this day for use by RCA in trade ads to promote their new TK30 Image Orthicon camera in early 1947. The cameraman is […]
‘Saturday Night Live’ Run Sheets…Dress, Air And Map With tonight bringing SNL Season 39 to a close, we’re celebrating with all today’s posts focusing on this great American treasure and the world’s only remaining live, variety style network show. We’ve all heard the stories about the sketches that are cut between the dress rehearsal and […]
Two True Rarities… Rarity One…the striped banding on the RCA TK11/31s. This was fairly common on the TK10/30 at CBS and this was actually a quick grey scale adjustment for cameras. The TK11/31 handle in front of the grey bars diluted their purpose, so they quit using the bars on the TK11/31 cameras soon after […]
May 30, 1949…WFBM Signs On With 10 Camera Indy 500 Coverage Operating now as WRTV, what is now Indiana’s oldest TV station, signed on the air on May 30, 1949 under the call sign WFBM-TV with a film documentary entitled “Crucible of Speed”, covering the history of the Indianapolis 500. Here’s where it gets interesting…that […]
I saw some newsreel footage of the Wanamakers fire. Holy crackers!
I alway love history of DuMont; maker of the World’s heaviest television equipment. But I gotta say: that set creeps me out.
I believe famed sports director, Harry Coyle worked at Dumont after leaving the service and his bomber in 1945.
I’ve heard interviewees speak about this early studio on Emmy Legends Interviews.