Behind The Scenes With Fox Sports…Putting The NFL On The Air
This is great stuff, but one of my favorite shots is about a minute in when we see the two headed monster…the dual platform Chapman sidelines rig. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_V8IlitveE
The NFL’s most exciting game isn’t played on the field. It happens behind the scenes, as hundreds of cast and crew come together to turn a football game into…
The ESPN/Chapman Dualie…Last Night In New York In case you’ve never seen this, here is the coolest sideline ride in the business. This two level configuration is around four years old…the original version had both cameras mounted on a T bar and debuted around six years ago. The Metlife photo is from our friend Teddy […]
More Pictures From NBC 3H…Granddaddy Of Them All On the left is a look inside the 3H control room in the late 1930s which was on the fourth floor level, but accessible from the studio. In the middle, television’s first ever opera was presented from 3H on March 10, 1940, as the Metropolitan Opera Company […]
May 19, 1945…Dumont’s W3XYT Signs On In Washington DC With NBC/RCA having come to DC in 1939 with W3XNB, Dumont was the second experimental station in the capitol. In 1947, this became WTTG, and was named after Thomas T. Goldsmith, Dumont’s chief of engineering. Dumont’s first “network” consisted of a linkage from their WABD in […]
‘The Patsy’…Marconi Mark VIs and RCA TK60s In Action, Exclusive From the 1964 Jerry Lewis, Paramount release, ‘The Patsy’, here is an edited clip you can only see here. This gives us a good look at two classic cameras in action. The Marconi Mark IV cameras in the first part are owned by KTLA which […]
Awesome crew! Amazes me that there are only 12 full time NFL crews between the networks. Makes for an exclusive club.
After the a.m. News the TV stays off until late afternoon. I just thought it was the fact that I grew up in a world without TV. I like music and prefer to listen to the classics all day.