Going back to 1931, the names Farnsworth and Zworykin ring out as the editors of BROADCASTING MAGAZINE present a special 320 page, 1981 edition that takes in an amazing array of “firsts” in broadcasting!
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This is one of only 2 or 3 surviving copies of 3M’s 1976 NAB tribute video called ’20 Years Of Video Tape’ and covers, in amazing detail, the history of video tape starting even before the unveiling of the VRX 1000 at the 1956 NAB convention and goes all the way to 1976. This was […]
Pierino Ronald “Perry” Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) Perry Como had a career spanning more than half a century. He recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. “Mr. C.”, as he was nicknamed, sold millions of records for RCA and pioneered a weekly musical variety television […]
[evp_embed_video url=”http://CDN.eyesofageneration.com/Content/Daily_Posts/2017/p1EEapr17rather.mp4″ preload=”none” template=”mediaelement”] This is a rare look inside CBS Studio 33, or what many call The Cronkite Newsroom. Although Dan Rather was now the anchor, Studio 33 is where Walter Cronkite first reported from, when they moved to the Broadcast Center in 1964. Prior to the move, the newsroom and set was on […]
It was on this day in 1955 NBC Burbank was dedicated…two and a half years after it opened October 4, 1952. Why the long wait? It was all about color. The new NBC black and white facilities at Burbank were Studios 1 and 3 and were in heavy use from the start, but until the […]