50 Years From CBS Television City…Part 1, The Soap Operas
CBS dedicated its new $7 million Hollywood production and office facility, Television City, on November 15, 1952. This special with Carol Burnett as host aired in April of 2002. As you’ll see as we go, this was done during the Hitachi period at TVC and the live cameras are SK 110 models built to CBS specs. Enjoy and Share!
John McCook hosts a segment on CBS 50 Years from Television City, focusing on Soaps. Special aired 4/27/02.
’60 Minutes’ And The Green Screens At CBS As a followup to the photos of the current set, I thought it would be fun to take a look back. On the left is one of the original set chairs from ’60 Minutes’ on display in the lobby of the CBS Broadcast Center. It is very […]
Speaking Of Toys…Here Is The First Ever Barbie Commercial This is reported to have aired on ABC on ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’ in 1959. Did you know Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts and was from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin? Me either, but unlike most YouTube posts, this one actually has some […]
How Very Interesting! Here is something very rare! At just over 2:20 in, the BBC’s version of the RCA TK40/41, the Marconi BD 848 color cameras appear on the screen. One has a viewfinder, one doesn’t but you rarely see these in action. The whole piece is great and shows lots of ‘new’ developments like […]
The Heart Of The Magnetic Field Problems For CBS Studio 50 In one of today’s earlier post about CBS ordering the Maconi Mark VII color cameras, I mentioned the the legendary magnetic field problems they had in Studio 50 and also, Studio 52. Circled in red is the heart of the problem. That’s where the […]
This would’ve been after the SK110 era. Not sure what Hitachis would’ve been there at the time, but there is an Ikegami at :08 into the clip. Never knew TVC had Ikes!