“Nightly Show” Canceled…Last Show Airs Thursday Larry Wilmore’s ‘Nightly Show’ Cancelled at Comedy Central “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore” will call it a day after Thursday’s episode. Comedy Central has canceled the half-hour series that replaced “The Colbert Report” on Jan. 19, 2015, making… Source
The Amazing Center Theater…Gone But Not Forgotten The Center Theater was Radio City Music Hall’s little sister and when it was converted by NBC for television in August of 1950, it became “the world’s largest television studio”. It’s big sister seated 6,000, and while the Center seated 3,000, it was just as opulent and a […]
‘Your Hit Parade’…The Original, Music Countdown Show Long before the Casey Kasem or American Bandstand countdowns, there was ‘Your Hit Parade’ which started on radio in 1935 and ran there till 1955. The television version started on NBC in 1950 and ran there till ’58 when it went to CBS for a year. In the […]
Jerry Lewis: Innovator Extraordinaire Jerry is responsible for bringing video assist to film making. In 1965, Sony built for him “Jerry’s Noisy Toy”…a 6 or 7 foot rolling rack with video tape, audio tape, turntable and more all built into this one mobile console. They could know on the spot if they had what was […]
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The Singing Rage…
Patti Page was famous for overdubbing her voice several times on her records and this promo is a clever reminder of that idea.