It was 7 AM, January 14, 1952 when TODAY debuted on NBC. There were of course a number of innovations that came from the show, but on Day 1, it seems to me that they are already pushing the envelope with a lower third news crawl at the bottom of the screen…AND a time bug which pop in at the 2:15 mark! A television first for a daily news and entertainment program.
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Final Wrap From New York… I leave for the airport at 10:30 this morning and hope to be home by 5, but part of me will still be here. Every time I watch NYC shows from now on, I’ll be right back in these studios seeing the faces of the many extraordinary people that I […]
The location of the three studios was inside New York City’s Wanamaker’s Department Store. Here is the announcement in a few magnified parts and a couple of photos of the huge main studio it’s control room. Source
September 7, 1927…First Electronic Television Demonstrated While others were trying to perfect mechanical television, Philo T. Farnsworth was creating the Image Dissector tube which was the heart of his electronic television system. RCA’s Vladimir Zworykin developed the Iconoscope tube and later the Orthicon tube, but it was only when he incorporated ideas from Philo’s Image […]