Again, it’s amazing how so many ‘new’ ideas are so old!

Again, it’s amazing how so many ‘new’ ideas are so old!

TeleTales #72…Speaking Of Johnny Carson And Studio 1 Here’s a nice color shot of the set with an RCA TK44 in the shot, probably a tour group stopping in. Notice the star on the floor…Johnny’s monologue marker. I don’t think this is the ’72 set, so this pix may be from around ’76. Please remember […]
Just Amazing! A Parade Of 50 Years Of CBS Stars! Part 2 It is extremely rare to see the founder and chairman of CBS on television, but here is William S. Paley along with Walter Cronkite closing the week’s festivities with about a hundred of America’s best known faces. The long pan of stars at […]
May 3, 1948…CBS Debuts TV’s First, Live, Nightly Network News On this day in 1948, “CBS TV News” became network television’s first daily newscast, with a live newsman…Douglas Edwards. NBC actually had the first daily network news broadcast, which began February 16, 1948. That was the “The NBC Television Newsreel” (later named “Esso Newsreel” and […]
The Poor Bastards Never Had A Chance…The NABET Strike, 1987 As we know, Dave loves to play with the staff and crew, but when the technicians strike rolled around, management had to step in and Letterman pulled all the stops to “play” with them. This should start at the intro to ‘Dave’s Record Collection’ which […]