A 1949 press release notes the debut of NBC's Los Angeles station.
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“The NBC Inhouse Mobile Units? YEP!”
NBC was televising shows from a few of their radio studios before they were converted…
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1957: “Truth or Consequences” Goes To Videotape
A sign of things to come is heralded in this press release.
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The Early History of WEAF…NBC Radio’s Flagship Station
A rare document looks at the earliest days of the station that NBC bought from…
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RARE! NBC Television Studio Technique, 1940
As NBC continued to refine its efforts toward commercial broadcasting's debut, here's what its staff…
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NBC – Recent Television Developments, 1940
From none other than Vladimir Zworykin, and R. E. Shelby, here is an engineer's dream…
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NBC Television Lighting, 1940
Fabled NBC Studio 3H proved not to be only a testing ground for the new…
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The Planning & Design of NBC Studio 3H…Home Of Electronic Television
This is TV MEGA HISTORY! In 1935, RCA leaned forward into the development and testing…
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NBC Broadcast Operations, Program Schedule Sheets, 1949-51
Four pages of Operations Sheets from NBC Television's early days. This is the best ever…
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A 1958 Dress Rehearsal, At “The Ed Sullivan Show”
Before all the live shots below were made on a Sunday night in December of…
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THE NBC BUILT, ND-8G CAMERAS
UPDATED March 3, 2023: Around 2010, I found a photo of an odd looking NBC…
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THE SECRET BACKSTORY OF THE RCA TK 44
Chapter One: by Bobby Ellerbee Over a period of months in 2009, I spoke…
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HISTORY FOR HIRE: A Grand Tour of Hollywood’s Top TV Prop House
In February of 2011, Concord, California camera collector John Bolin took a tour of Hollywood's…
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The Virtual Archives of RCA Engineer Harry Wright
He helped design the RCA TK42, TK42XX, TK43, TK44, TK47, TK48, TK76 and more. The…
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CBS Field Sequential Color Cameras at Studio 57
Below I have collected more than twenty images of the fabled CBS Field Sequential Color…
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Six Decades of “Tonight”
THE TONIGHT SHOW: Six Decades of Television and Camera History A look back at more…
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WSB-TV: The Early Years
Here are about 16 images from Georgia’s first TV station, WSB-TV in Atlanta, showing their…
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WAGA-TV: The Early Years
This was Atlanta’s second TV station. It was a CBS affiliate until the late 1980s.…
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WKY-TV: First In Local Live Color
In this piece, you'll see television history in the making that starts in 1949 and…
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1929: Radio Movies in Color
One of the leaders of Bell Labs had an idea of how to show the…