NBC takes a look at the many big advances it made in 1948, like increasing the size of the TV network from 4 to 25 stations, introducing Kinescopes and much more.
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How Big Are The NBC Studios At 30 Rock? When I saw the Seth Meyers debut Monday night, I wondered why they had not gone with a bigger set, but I had forgotten that with 8H taking up 10,000 square feet of that floor, 8G is actually considerably smaller that the 6th floor studios. Source
October 31, 1950…Trick Or Treat? My Parents Would Say, BOTH! Yep, today’s my birthday and at 3:20 this afternoon, I’ll be 64 years old. I’m not sure, but that probably makes me the oldest student at The University Of Georgia. Most don’t know, but in August, I started back to school at my old alma […]
50 Years Ago Today…A Christmas Classic Was Born! The evening of December 6, 1964, kids across the country tuned into NBC for the debut of ‘Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer’ in living color. It’s aired every year since. The Christmas television special was produced in stop motion animation by Rankin/Bass Productions, and was sponsored by […]
Early UN Security Council Meeting, 1946 Around the middle of 1946, the newly founded United Nations set up facilities at the Sperry Corporation building in Lake Success, NY. That was their HQ till the UN building was completed in NYC in 1952. This RCA Orthicon camera was used to televise the first Security Council meeting […]