The ‘Home’ Show’s Home…Studio A, 67th Street, “Radio Age”
At the link, you can see the two page story starting on page 26 of the April 1954 edition of “Radio Age”. Among the set’s 10 work areas is the “weather maker” which can make snow, fog and rain as seen on the right. There are other fascinating gizmos here, including the “aerial camera”. Enjoy!
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Age/Radio-Age-1954-April.pdf
Shades Of SNL…On The Set Wardrobe Changes In live television, a lot of things happened just on the other side of the set walls. Here at Television City, a door opens to a quick change space where actors could make a change on the set. More often than not, there was no time to make […]
NBC’s ‘All Star Review’: 1950-1953 This show began as ‘The Four Star Review’ and later became ‘The Martha Raye Show’. When it started, this weekly variety show was hosted on a rotating basis by Jimmy Durante, Ed Wynn, Jack Carter and newcomer Danny Thomas, thus the “four star” name. In 1951, other hosts were added […]
NBC Tour Time #2…30 Rock As Only David Letterman Can Show It Just for fun, here a clip from around 1985, just before the GE sale, with Dave bring out some of the many selling points. I particularly like the trip to the Tom Brokaw news set;>) Thanks to David Crosthwait for the clip. Enjoy […]
Tour Of Duty…Remembering Roy Holm, NBC Burbank Last week when the ‘Elvis’ comeback special story ran here, Roy Holm was pictured in that photo array. Our friend David Crosthwait posted more pictures of Roy that I am sharing here. He was one of NBC’s top cameramen and a multiple EMMY winner. More on the photos. […]
“Today”, “Home” and “Tonight” were the three components of Pat Weaver’s programming strategy. That two of them continue today is a testimony to his vision. Two out of three ain’t bad!