WBBM, Chicago: 1981 Behind The Scenes
This is a very good and thorough look at what goes into a major market news cast in this era…lots of gear is covered here and it all starts in the studio with Bill Curtis being shot with Thomson cameras. Enjoy!
One Of The Best, True Holiday Stories Ever…By Mark Evanier Our friend Mark, has been blogging on entertainment since 2000 and may be best known for this great oldtvtickets.com site, but here’s a great story he tells of a classic encounter with Mel Tormé. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee ***************************************************************************************** I want to tell you […]
Merv Griffin Gets A Ride On A Marconi Mark IV This fun clip is from November 8, 1965. This was the first year of Merv’s Group W, syndicated daytime show and was done at The Little Theater at 240 West 44th Street in New York. This is now known as The Helen Hayes Theater. In […]
Almost Show Time During warm up, Johnny takes a look at the audience. It doesn’t look like it, but there are 465 seats here in Studio 1. By the mid-1970s Tonight was the most profitable show on television, making NBC $50 to $60 million ($178,163,000 to $213,796,000 today) each year. Carson influenced the scheduling of […]
Ultra Rare! RCA TK40 Prototype Color Camera…November 1952 Since posting this a year or so ago, new details on the first use of this camera have surfaced. As you remember, a few months back, I published the first and only timeline history of the NBC New York Studios. While doing that research, a tiny blurb […]
I would love to know who picked the music for this.
I’m searching YouTube for Part 1, but can’t find it. Anybody see it?
I was working in TV production in a small market in Florida in 1982-85 but we didn’t have a still store or live truck.
Thank you! That is GREAT!
Wow – this is fantastic. This program was shot just a couple of years before I started to work there. Amazing technology for the time, eh? We should do a new “Magic of TV” production now. it’s changed so much!
Pretty cool trip down memory lane. Thanks Bobby.
Really enjoy seeing all the old cameras how about showing old microphones too.