April 15, 1956: The Day Color TV Came To Chicago
http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/1968/fadeup2.html
The link above will take you to Rich Samuel’s great site that covers Chicago broadcast history from stem to stern. The linked page is about WMAQ’s conversion to color. I wish more cities had broadcast historians like Mr. Samuels. Enjoy the site!
February 15, 1982, WE Were David Letterman…Sort Of… Beautifully shot from David’s point-of-view, this opening segment starts in this dressing room and gives us a great look at NBC Studio 6A. I posted this a couple of years ago, but thanks to Andy Rose, here it is again with some names to the faces that […]
The Amazing Back Story Of ABC’s Vine Street Theater…1313 Vine Street Did you know this was originally the home of The Don Lee – Mutual Network? Or, that this is the first place Johnny Carson ever went on network television? The building was originally built in 1948 as a radio and television studio facility at […]
This was a January 1956 storm that hit the California coast with huge waves. The surfers may have loved it, but KTLA lost a camera covering the event…don’t know if it was this one or another, but this cameraman is about to get a big surprise. Thanks to David Zoning fro the pix. Enjoy and […]
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 […]
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