One Side Up…Three More To Go At 30 Rock
In September the old GE signs at 30 Rock finally came down. Thanks to our friend Alan Coffield, here’s a picture of one side of the building’s new top hat, complete with a peacock logo. Both the north and south sides get this treatment and the east and west faces will get the peacock only…hopefully in color. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
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 […]
Picture Parade #4…Commercial Television’s First News Program, 1941 This picture of Lowell Thomas looks a lot like the one in #3, but there is a big difference. WNBT began commercial television operations on July 1, 1941 as the first fully-licensed commercial television station in the United States. That day, the call letters were changed from […]
Oh, Now I See How They Do It! Ever wonder how they got a lot of driving sequence shots? Me too, but now we see how it’s done. This is called a ‘Process Trailer’. When the platforms on each side of the car are let down, the rig is 15 feet wide, but with them […]
An Oscar Week Favorite…Lewis Horvitz Directing The Awards Here’s a video several have requested. From the 69th Annual Academy Awards show, here’s the director in the truck at the Shrine Auditorium on March 24, 1997. Gil Cates produced. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vLVbhuzWOk Source
Aren’t they supposed to say, “Cabletown?”
They misspelled it…should be COMCRAP!
Nice, but I associate Comcast with marginal cable TV service.
I like NBC, Comcast…not so much.
Note: The east side is the ‘front’ of the building and faces the skating rink. I don’t think there ever was a giant logo of any kind on that side.
Everything changes and not necessarily for the best! Have you seen what is being done with KTLA?
From RCA to GE to Comcast I’ve been doing this too long 🙂
Should be this.
That will ruin that great facade.
We’re going to see that on TV shows for the rest of our lives. I can see the sweeping shots now or at least until someone buys Comcast out.
I like the post. Not so sure that I like the combo!
Don’t complain about Comcast too much. They’ll contact your employer and get you fired.
It will always be the RCA building to me, just like the Met Life Building will always be the Pan AM Building to me.
Yuk!