The 14 City NBC Television Network…1949
From the ‘Howdy Doody Show’, we get some interesting information on the status of NBC’s coverage of the country via the AT&T links for live television. This show was kinescoped and mailed to most of the other major metro areas not covered by the growing network.
My home town of Atlanta was added on October 4, 1950, just 27 days before I was born.
How NFL Games Are Covered…A Close Up Look At The Technology This excellent video gives us a detailed look at what goes into bringing football to the nation, including a very good look at the aerial camera systems. Some of the processes mentioned in today’s first post, on ESPN’s college bowl game coverage, is shown […]
Beatles 50th Sullivan Anniversary Count Down…16 Days Who is this man and why is he on stage with The Beatles? That answer in a moment, but first the scene must be set. It was only last year that I discovered that the Beatles third Sullivan appearance on February 23 was in fact, the first time […]
November 10, 1938…First Ever Performance, “God Bless America” Irving Berlin had originally written the song in 1918 while serving in the U.S. Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, but decided that it did not fit in a USO type revue called ‘Yip Yip Yaphank’, so he set it aside. In 1938, with the […]
The first NBC color coverage of a college football game was in Atlanta when Georgia Tech Yellowjackets played the Miami Hurricanes, September 17, 1955 at Grant Field. Not long after that, NBC went to Ann Arbor’s “Big House” for a Wolverine game. In the great video below showcasing RCA color and the first commercially available […]
looks like ‘Buffalo’ Bob is doing Howdy’s voice live. The director had to be very careful not to punch up the two shot and reveal Bob’s trick when Howdy’s jawboning. The puppeteer is struggling to stay in sync with Bob, and you can hear Howdy’s jaw snapping shut. This little issue was solved a few years later when Howdy’s dialogue was pre-recorded.
But WSB existed since 1948, so the network didn’t reach Atlanta until 1950? BTW, I was born 5 weeks after you were . . . 😉
Son of a gun, you and I are only about a month or so apart in age….December here.
One of my all time favorite programs… This clip aired before I was born… One thing for sure, NBC built the network one station at a time! Oh the early days of Television Broadcasting…
Wow! I do not remember watching HD regularly but this is great!