Now You Know Why…
Ever wonder why Johnny Carson sometime looked like he was talking to a balcony audience? Well, take a good look at Studio 1 in Burbank and you’ll understand. Although there is no balcony, the audience seating is very high and at a pretty steep incline…like stadium seating and the people in the back are waaay up there. Thanks to Martin Perry for the photo.
‘The Andy Williams Show’…Photos & Videos To Match Occasionally, we get lucky and can match up rehearsal photos to the performance video. Today, we’ve matched two photos. On the left is Williams in rehearsal for the first show of the third season taped on October 5, 1964. Andy’s guest are Jack Benny, Janet Leigh and […]
NBC Studio 6A…Newly Redone & Proud As A Peacock With New Feathers! Here is the first look at the newly revamped studio, that is now the home of “Maya & Marty”. Shortly after “The Meredith Vieira Show” wrapped earlier this year, the set was struck and the studio underwent a major remodeling, for the first […]
TeleTales: “Film At 11″… WPIX Coined The Phrase In 1948 “First on the scene. First on the screen”. That was the motto for NYC’s newest television station, WPIX, which went on the air June 15, 1948. It was owned by the New York Daily News, which was famous for their pictures, thus the name PIX, […]
February 21, 1940…TV’s First Regularly Scheduled News Debuts In a new area, where no one has ever been before, there are many “firsts”, and that applies to television too, but in TV’s case that has to be broken into two parts; the experimental-pre war period and the commercial-post war period. This event, television’s first regularly […]
Actually, I can remember watching at home and seeing him go up in the audience occasionally for segments like “Stump the band”