‘The Good Ship Hope’: NBC September 7, 1962
Here is the Operations map of this show’s feed. Hosted by Ralph Bellamy, this was a one hour special about the hospital ship ‘Hope’ helping civilians in Vietnam. Thanks to Gady Reinhold for saving and sharing this.
Dumont Iconoscope Camera Chains Pictured here are two complete chains for studio and field use. Everything on the cart can be placed in a truck or control room, but notice the two elements at the foot of each tripod. Those had to be with the camera head…one element is an amplifier and the other, a […]
July 2, 1964…President Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act Legislation This beautiful photo was taken in The East Room of The White House as President Johnson addressed the nation, just before signing The Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. For those of us who are old enough to remember these times, it’s interesting to recall […]
July 10, 1950…The Original, TV Music Countdown Show Debuts “Your Hit Parade” was television’s first ever Top Ten type music show, and radio’s too. It started on the NBC Red Network on April 20, 1935 and ran there till 1955. The television version started on NBC on this day in 1950 and ran there till […]
‘Queen For A Day’ Here is the ABC Hollywood crew for the show with a few of the iconic white ABC TK30s around 1949. One of the show’s telecast locations was the Earl Carroll Theater on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood and that’s where this photo was taken. In 1953, it was renamed The Moulin Rouge […]
Really cool. Intersting (only to me) is that WIS-TV in Columbia, SC had a special feed for a commercial cut-in. I worked both at WIS-TV (in 1975-76) and currently at NBC in New York, where this program originated more than 50 years ago.