ABC…Saved By The Bell & Whistle
ABC was in big trouble till sports programming saved it. In this Silver Anniversary clip, Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell pay tribute to ‘Wide World Of Sports’ and some of the eras top athletes.
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There’s No Place Like “Home”…Studio 33 Carol Burnett: Queen of Comedy Here’s Carol Burnett with CBS Newsman Lee Cowan. In the clip linked above, you’ll see his 8 minute visit with her that ran on ‘Sunday Morning’. Nice piece with some interesting shots along the way. Enjoy! Source
Episode 1, Season 1, ‘The Roy Rogers Show’ This is the first ever episode of the TV classic and it aired on NBC as 6:30 (ET) Sunday night, December 30, 1951. The series ran one hundred new episodes on NBC for six seasons and ended on June 9, 1957. Beginning in 1961, CBS broadcast reruns […]
EMI, The Start Of Something Big… Below is an EMI 203 Image Orthicon camera from 1960, but broadcast was just one area EMI was involved in. Here’s a short course on their history. Electric and Musical Industries Ltd was formed in March 1931 by the merger of the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company, […]
Beatles 50th Sullivan Anniversary Count Down…5 Days There was only thing the Ed Sullivan staff and crew knew for sure…they were on at 8 and off at 9! Everything else…well, it was up to Ed! I’ve talked to about half a dozen people that worked on the Sullivan show, and aside from the opening line […]
I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc05HiMu0G8
You gotta love Howard Cossell. He’s a bird!