Perspective Is Everything…
In this photo, the size of the teleprompter just jumps off the page for some reason. Although we’ve all seen them before, it suddenly seems huge, but to everyone’s credit, this cumbersome configuration worked for the talent as well as the camera crews. This is long time ABC cameraman Charlie Henry on the WABC News set with an Ikegami 312E. I think the prompter is a QTV model.
November 6, 1947…’Meet The Press’ Debuts, NBC This is America’s longest running television program. Almost everyone thinks of it as a Sunday morning show, but when it started, it was a Saturday night show, and hosted by a woman. Her name was Martha Rountree and she started as a reporter at The Tampa Tribune, but […]
Revision From Friday Post Friday, I posted a photo I though was from WKY, but it’s from WHDH in Boston in 1958. Here is the photo again, but with a labeling of the Telecine equipment. Thanks to Lytle Hoover and Oldradio.com Source
This is TV MEGA HISTORY! In 1935, RCA leaned forward into the development and testing of fully electronic television. The testing had to be done in a real TV studio, but since there were none…it was up to them to design and build the first ever television studio. From 1937, here is the detailed report […]
September 10, 1955…”Gunsmoke” Debuts With John Wayne Intro According to “The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows”, John Wayne was the first choice to play Marshal Matt Dillon, but he declined because he did not want to commit to a weekly TV series. He did, however, recommend his friend James Arness […]
I remember giving a tour of my station to an aunt. After I explained how the teleprompter worked, she was saddened. All this time she thought the anchors memorized their scripts every night.
That photo was taken on the set of WABC-TV Eyewitness News in the early 80’s and that is a QTV teleprompter monitor.
I used to have to tape the teleprompter rolls to gether. Lot’s of fun.
When I see that particular orginal Circle 7 logo, I always wonder if It’s New York, LA, Chicago, San Francisco or Detroit — the orginal big market ABC O&O’s. Action News.
This is one of those instances where the prompter outweighs the camera and the pedestal :-/