‘Cinderella Weekend’, WCAU Philadelphia
This is a photo from 1950 taken at WCAU’s Chestnut Street studio. That’s a pretty interesting General Electric pedestal under that RCA TK30. Although ‘Cinderella Weekend’ was produced locally in each market, it was actually a package show that stations paid a fee for. Monday-Friday homemakers answered questions from a panel for a daily winner, and on Friday, one of the daily winners would win the weekend sightseeing trip to NYC.
Gone, But Not Forgotten…The Orange Bowl Parade Tomorrow, one of the nations oldest bowl games will be played in Miami but today, New Years Eve was the day the Orange Bowl Parade happened. It was a rare night parade and kicked off at 7PM, just like it had since 1936. Unfortunately, in 2002 that came […]
Conan & Jimmy Parsons Take A Trip To The ‘Big Bang’ Set Somewhat like yesterdays Letterman video that gave us a good look at 6A, here’s a fun and interesting look at Conan O’Brien’s Warner studio, just a couple of doors up from ‘Big Bang’, which we’ll also see. Here’s the golf cart trip and […]
How Television Made Basketball Fans Mad About March! It’s “that time again”, when back to back college basketball games are center stage for a few weeks, but without Eddie Einhorn, March Madness, the way we know it, may have never happened. Before we get to how all this happened, here is an interesting footnote. Originally, […]
Before Character Generation, There Was This…Then Came Vidifont The first electronic graphics machine used in US television production was the CBS Vidifont system. As told by the man that developed it, Stanley Baron, here is the story of how it came to be. https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Inventing_the_Vidifont:_the_first_electronics_graphics_machine_used_in_television_production Before 1968, television graphics were either movable letters on a slot […]
Very sleek looking GE pedistal
One guy in the crowd.
Great to see some early studio pix from Philly.