A Final Goodnight…
Soon Jay Leno will join this list, but for now, here are Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Johnny Carson, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rater, Peter Jennings, Bob Barker, Larry King, Mary Hart, Oprah and Regis signing off for the last time. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3MhrWM0__M
From Walter Cronkite to (just recently) Regis Philbin, here is a look back at fond television farewells over the last three decades, though some of them stil…
In the bottom photo, we see the back of the game board in NBC Studio 8G, which is game board unit C. I think there were at least three game boards, units A, B and C which were loaded before the show and wheeled into place as the show progressed. On the set there was […]
‘Broadway Open House’…The Start Of Late Night Television This is some of the only surviving video of the show, and in the photo is host, Jerry Lester on stage in the brand new NBC Studio 6A, hosting network television’s first late-night comedy-variety series. It was telecast live on NBC from May 29, 1950 to August […]
RCA’s First Experimental Color Television Cameras Shown here are the first two RCA color cameras made. The photo was taken at NBC/RCA’s Wardman Park Studio in Washington DC around 1949. The camera on the left has the lens cowl removed and notice that the color splitting mirrors are mounted in front of the fixed lenses. […]
September 4, 1951…America’s First Coast To Coast TV Broadcast 63 years ago yesterday, the first live television signals were transmitted from San Francisco to the east coast. On that day in 1951, President Harry S. Truman’s opening speech before the Japanese Peace Conference was broadcast across the nation, marking the first time a television program […]
Could do without the loud piano music in the backround. Otherwise, good.