THIS Is A REAL News Team!
With election night just weeks away, take a look at the CBS team covering the 1964 election. The race was between Johnson and Goldwater and at the Broadcast Center, CBS was ready. L-R, Harry Reasoner, Roger Mudd, Eric Severeid, Mike Wallace, Robert Trout and Walter Cronkite. Unfortunately, they don’t make ’em like they used to!
‘Mike And Buff’ In response to yesterday’s post on the CBS color broadcasts, Mark VonderEmbse noticed one of the shows broadcast was the ‘Mike And Buff’ show with Mike Wallace and then wife, Buff Cobb. Here is a 1951 publicity photo of them Mark sent. Thanks! Source
CLASSIC! Final Days Of ‘Tonight’ With Johnny Carson This is a great behind the scenes look at the show, shot in the final days of production with Johnny and Ed as hosts. The year is 1992 and the cameras are RCA TK47s. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDcQkpb9sE A Behind the Scenes Look at Production of The Tonight Show […]
‘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. Source
Rare! ‘Lucky Partners’…NBC Studio 8H, 1958 If you blinked, you missed this short lived daytime game show. It debuted June 30, 1958 and by August 22, it was gone and these few photos are all that remain. The host was Carl Cardell. I want to ask a question…does anyone know if the cameraman standing on […]
That’s for sure. We now have ‘television journalists’ who tout the corporate line.
Probably the strongest broadcast news and analysis team ever.
I’m reading Cronkite’s biography (called “Cronkite”) right now. Fascinating story of the birth of CBS News… highly recommended.
Roger Mudd still alive at 84.
Those were the days that they reported the news and didn’t report their biased opinions!
Ladies, they though it was a man’s world.