Very Cool Gag Opening…’Red Shelton Hour’ 1962
Wait till you see what’s under the black dust cover on the RCA TK41! As you’ll see in this :30 clip, this is actually in CBS Television City Studio 33, but we are lead to believe otherwise. Enjoy! Thanks to William David French for discovering this.
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Back Stage on “The Price Is Right” Now this is interesting…we have Noreclo PC70s at Television City in 1982. I think the next cameras there were Ikegami HK312s. This piece is from a local morning show somewhere called ‘2 On The Town’. Enjoy. Source
Johnny Carson: The Early Years…CBS, Part 1 This is MORE RARE than you know! In this clip from Johnny Carson’s first CBS show ‘Carson’s Cellar’, two actors are pretending to from the audience, but…the man is Jack Bailey who would later become famous as the longtime host of ‘Queen For A Day’. The lady is […]
A Tribute To Instant Reply Inventor…Director Tony Verna This video from WCAU in Philadelphia has some very interesting footage at the start from the 1985 Live Aid Concert with Tony Verna directing the US portion of the world wide broadcast. WCAU is where he started and as you’ll see, he blazed quite a trial. Anyone […]
Special Updated Version Of NBC Burbank Stroll! In yesterday’s post of the Jimmy Fallon record release, I mentioned that he was not the first ‘Tonight’ host to have a record charted in Billboard Magazine. Steve Allen was, and here is the song that he wrote and recorded in a very special television version! This is […]
That was FUNNY!
Very funny. As a microphone collector I notice the E/V 642 above him and this was the year it came out, behind is an RCA 77-D or DX ribbon that were being phased out.
I have to wonder if that was a veiled reference to CBS having no option but to use the TK41s…
“Wait, you want to show one of our cameras??? Here….take this! We don’t want people knowing these are OURS!!! Especially Mr. Paley!”