Letterman Takes Over WNBC ‘Live At 5’ Weather With Al Roker
While Jack Cafferty and Company are fresh on our minds from the last post, here’s a rare clip of Dave walking over from 6A to 6B and having a hard time getting in. Once inside, the old weather man in Dave takes over…sort of. Enjoy and share!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-EsiPs6pes
Dave invades local news show ‘Live at 5’ to do a weather report with Al Roker. Aired 2/18/88.
September 24, 1968…’60 Minutes’ Debuts On CBS https://youtu.be/iRxQI8r8X9E?t=122 Forty six years ago, television history was made when CBS debuted ’60 Minutes’. Below, we see the slate for that first broadcast and at the link above, we have a great farewell to Mike Wallace. At the two minute mark, we enter the ’60 Minutes’ studio which […]
‘CBS Evening News’…29th Floor, Graybar Building Location As I wrote earlier today, in the post just before this, the famous newsroom we see here was located in The Graybar Building which is adjacent to Grand Central Terminal. The first time we see this is during the debut of television’s first daily half hour news broadcast […]
This is one of only a handful of shows that was eventually carried on every network over its 24 years on TV…Dumont, NBC, CBS and ABC. Ted Mack was born in Greeley, CO and named Edward McGuiness. When he became a band leader and his name would not fit on a theater marque, the theater […]
September 21, 1948…Berle Named Permanent Host, ‘Texaco Star Theater’ On June 8, 1948, there were two major debuts at NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza and they both happened in the same place at the same time as ‘The Texaco Star Theater’ was broadcast live from Studio 6B. This was the first broadcast from 6B after it’s […]
amazing, Dave’s a Psychic…. it’s 1988 and he says, ‘How’s that Weather Channel gig?”
Is it me, or is Dave *really* ticked at the NBC page?
This was a hoot! Working with Dave was never boring. Dave actually did this another time as well with “ZIPPY” the chimp. Zippy was on roller skates and wearing a helmet cam as well. I remember scooting across the hall with the cameraman from Studio 6A to 6B and watching Zippy steal the show. PLEASE post if you can find the footage! Thank You.