BREAKING NEWS! COLBERT TO REPLACE LETTERMAN!
http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/stephen-colbert-to-replace-david-letterman-1201155423/
Stephen Colbert to Replace David Letterman
The CBS Television Network today announced that Stephen Colbert, the host, writer and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “The Colbert Report,” will succeed David Letterman as …
April 11, 1956 is a day that truly changed television! Here it the story of that day and the hectic months at Ampex that followed this blockbuster announcement. On April 11, 1956, Ampex engineers Phil Gundy and Charlie Ginsburg introduced one of two existing video recorder prototypes to the National Association of Radio and Television […]
December 31, 1965…Johnny Carson & Ben Graurer Welcome 1966 As mentioned in the Guy Lombardo article just before this, NBC usually welcomed the new year with a live ‘Tonight’ show which started with Steve Allen and continued through the Paar years and into Johnny Carson’s tenure. I think Ben Grauer was the Times Square reporter […]
Surprise, Surprise! Who knew that ABC had robotic cameras this early? The cameras I think are Ikegami HK 312E models, or another early Iki, so this would be in the late 80s maybe. The center camera is on a Fulmar ped and there’s a human running it, but the other two…well, I’m just amazed at […]
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 […]
Although her roots at NBC are deep, I would have loved for Tina Fey to have taken over.
That was a quick decision. It only took one week.
Awesome
Can Steven Colbert be successful outside of his carititure? Or will he crash and burn like others in late night like Merv, Sajak, and Joey Bishop?
OMG—Stephen Colbert! Another Program to tune out as Late Night Shows are headed the wrong way. 🙁
At least it’s not Craig Ferguson.
My thoughts are what made Dave good was his nbc days. I still have his first nbc late night on tape. It was low budget and he did all this different stuff. IMHO ferguson is like that in some ways. I watch him sometimes if I wake up in the middle of the night. Never saw Colbert. I am sure this was in play for awhile. I agree I think cbs should have went in another direction and not go mainstream.