Soupy Sales: 1964 WNEW
Even though WNEW was the old Dumont owned WABD, it’s still odd to see these old Dumont cameras in use on the ‘new’ Soupy show. The show started in Detroit at WXYZ in ’53 and began to air on ABC in 59. In ’60 Sales moved to KABC and after ABC canceled the show in ’63, he moved to WNEW where he did the show till ’66 and those 260 shows are the ones in syndication.
COOL! This is a :43 second time lapse video of 2 cameras shooting a college basketball game between Western Kentucky University and Florida International University. Notice one of the cameras has a program monitor attached. Good idea. [fb_vid id=”10151275273449149″]Tonight’s time lapse from the beautiful US Century Bank Arena on Florida International University’s campus as WKU […]
April 15, 1946 & 1955…Big Days For Dumont, Gleason And Lewis This is a two part story, of two April 15th news making days for Dumont; one in 1946, the other in 1955. Part 1, The Glory Days: This big photo was taken April 15, 1946 and shows the inaugural broadcast from the new Dumont […]
The RCA Kinescope Machine September 13, 1947 — Kodak and NBC develop ‘kinescopes’, which use special film cameras to shoot directly off a TV screen. This permits the recording and later distribution of live shows for sale, or archiving. The Kinescope dominated TV recording for time delay in the early 1950’s. A Kinescope recorder was […]
When CBS televised its first Masters in 1956, the network used seven cameras and covered action from the final four holes. This week at Augusta National, for the 61st consecutive year, considerably more personnel and technology will be in place. CBS will offer nine hours of live coverage this weekend, and it can show action […]
I grew up in Detroit and watched it as a kid at WXYZ-TV. He was so great!!!
…Soupy’s show on Saturday afternoon at 12 noon was a riot ! ..I loved how he got away with doing stuff that eventually got him into trouble !
Looks like the boom operator had bad depth perception.
“The Soupy Sales Show”, both the WNEW-TV and KTLA episodes, have been seen on a regular basis on the JLTV-Jewish Life Television Network, as well as available on DVD too.
I think the KTLA period was from ’63 to ’66. After the ABC cancellation and before the move to WNEW.
No, the KTLA period is from 1978 to 1979, and in color. In between the stints on ABC and WNEW, Soupy did some guest appearences, hosted some “Tonight” shows before Johnny Carson was selected as permanent host, and an unsold pilot with Donald O’Connor. His autobiography “Soupy Sez”, published in 2001 (now out-of-print), tells about his career in his own story with all those particular details.