Fancy Remote Setup Isn’t It?
In the late 50s, ‘Queen For A Day’ would occasionally take the show on the road. When they did, the local NBC stations supplied the equipment and crews. This photo is from KPRC in Houston where a week of shows came from City Auditorium.
August 15, 1948…CBS Debuts First, Live Nightly News Broadcast On this day in 1948, Douglas Edwards became the first, live daily anchor of a network news show. In the 3 minute video below, Dan Rather tells the story nicely, so take a look. Just to be clear, there was news on CBS and NBC before […]
Great WGN Photo Album…Over Two Dozen Rare Photos Since April 5, 1948, WGN has been one of the few independent broadcasters in the US, but has done well. From sports to kids shows, and everything in between, WGN has covered a lot of ground and you’ll see a lot of that history here. Enjoy and […]
With the recent receipt of new images and data, this story has been revised and updated June 27, 2021. This is a combination of some newly discovered details with a few very rare and little known places and events that no one that I know of has ever woven together to tell this historic tale. […]
Good News, Bad News…RCA TK 76 The good news was, that now, any news could be covered more easily with the new TK 76 Electronic News Gathering (ENG) camera introduced in 1976. This was the fully self contained portable color camera RCA made for news crews. It weighed 19 pounds. The bad news was that […]
Now that’s a “de-rig” but hardly a “fly-away”!
KPRC is and was NBC. KTRK Was and is the ABC affiliate (now an O&O)
That’s Charlie Hunt tweaking the cameras. Charlie started at KPRC-TV in 1949, when it was still KLEE-TV. Though retired, Charlie’s still with us. I saw him last Saturday.
This remote took place in 1961.
Note the many spare vacuum tube boxes lower right! Must have been troubles…
I remember the 1960-64 run. Never knew it was on NBC.
Mark Gulbrandsen, there was always trouble, lots and lots of trouble.
so much tweaking required!
Those round CRTs must have had an early integral Implosion protection system 😉
Bill, dont you mean that it took place in 1951? I came to work at KPRC in May of 61, so the remote must have happned before then.
I was at the station in ’61, it must have been before May when I started.
Bill, the remote must have happened before I came to work at KPRC in May of 61
Bill, I came to KPRC in May of 61, the remote must have happned before that