FANTASTIC! Take A Look…
This is the entire April 1961 “Color Television Progress” issue of RCA Broadcast News! It’s FULL of great stories and since many of you are off today, it’s the perfect time to take a look. Enjoy!
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‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’…The Debut Reviews Are In “Safe” seems to be a key word in several of the pieces I’ve seen this morning. What did you think? In his ‘Late Night’ debut, Seth Meyers is strong but plays it safe On March 3rd, 2009, a 34-year old Jimmy Fallon stepped out for his […]
The Story Of The Ruby Slippers, Part 2 In this great 4 part documentary, we learn the incredible story of the most famous slippers ever made. In this part, we discover how they were found and who found them! Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tk8neCC3go The story behind the most famous pair of slippers ever made. Source
A Wonderful Primer On Early Color Television… From the Eyes Of A Generation’s archives, here a well done “Atlantic Magazine” story on the ladies that were both known as “Miss Color TV”, NBC’s Marie McNamara, and CBS’s Patty Painter. This also covers the progressions and setbacks encountered by both networks, in their race to bring […]
A Dying Breath Brought New Life To Video Assist In the very last days in operation as a network, Dumont introduced the Electronicam in 1955. By late ’54 the handwriting was on the wall…in February of 1955, Dumont executives realized the company could not continue as a television network. It was decided to shut down […]
Fascinating and they included one of my old haunts, Reeves!!! Especially ironic is the article about Japan embracing the RCA technology when within 25 years they would surpass RCA as the main supplier of color video production equipment.
I love that KSTP bus!
“Cultivating Color TV.” You had to live in this exciting brave new colorful world to understand it. Today’s generation(s) simply could not comprehend what a Big Deal color television really was!
Hey Alan, I worked in that very building shown in the photos of Reeves. I just wonder why the article on Reeves is impossible to read; it’s such low resolution.
I always like browsing these old issues of Broadcast News for any pics of my local NBC station. I did notice in this particular issue, Dallas station WBAP is profiled as having all local programs broadcast in color (which explains the otherwise B&W NBC coverage of the Kennedy assassination switching to color whenever they cut to WBAP).