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David Muir Takes Us On A Tour Of ABC News Headqarters Source

CBS Television City…Circa 1988 This clip takes a look back as CBS prepares for it’s 60th Anniversary. Since the company became CBS in 1928, I’m guessing this was shot in 87 or 88. Enjoy! Source

Pressure? What Pressure? As you’ll see, getting clips in, edited and on the air for update shows, during multiple basketball games is quite a challenge.

Surprise Discovery! Sam Donaldson…Cub Reporter, 1967 At 11:05 you’ll see WTOP TV shooting film then picking up the story in the studio with a very young Sam Donaldson on the set with an RCA TK41. You’ll even see him in the viewfinder! Sam’s part actually starts at 10:27 and he is back with the…

Behind The Scenes: The NFL Today, 1975 I had planned to do this story today anyway, but over the weekend, Dave Miller posted a great video to go with it. In the clip, we go to CBS Studio 45 at the Broadcast Center, BUT, don’t skip over the story below. CBS veteran Gady Reinhold…

The Famous, ABC Made, Hand Held Camera, In Action! At the very front of this clip from ABC’s Silver Anniversary, Frank Gifford holds up and demonstrates the ‘Creepy Peepy’ camera and suggests it came into use in September of 1960 on the sidelines when ABC won the rights to televise college football. It is…

This is a short but sweet video from the Museum Of Broadcast Technology near Boston. Great look at a few of over100 cameras that are on display there in Woonsocket, R.I. Most of MBT’s cameras and 60+ VTRs will be operative. Tom Sprague, Paul Beck, Jay Ballard and Pete Fasciani have been working on…

Museum Of Broadcast Technology: Tape Room 1 When I began to collect cameras in 2004, Chuck Pharis introduced me to Paul Beck and Tom Sprague. Tom was just beginning to create the Museum Of Broadcast Technology in Wonsocket, RI., and with the help of Paul, Jay Ballard, Pete Fasciano (inventor of Avid) and Mark…

Museum Of Broadcast Technology: Tape Room 2 In this video, we see the attempt to playback a Boston kids show tape from the ’60s. Once the tape plays, check out the action on the show…it’s great. Again, this shows my good friends Paul Beck, Jay Ballard and Mark Berman in room full of restored…

A GREAT HALF HOUR OF HISTORY! Few show are as legendary as THE ED SILLIVAN SHOW, and to hear stories from those on the inside is quite a treat! Here is our friend John Moffitt sharing some of his recollections in part 3 of 9 interviews with the Television Academy.com John worked first as…

Now this is interesting. Although dated 1948, the RCA part was shot a couple of years earlier as that portion shows the rare RCA Orthicon camera and not the TK10/30 Image Orthicon camera that came out in ’46. The GE part shot at GE owned WRGB shows their Iconoscope cameras in use and 2…

Now this is interesting! The Vinten Peregrine was a failed experiment in camera crane technology. Designed to a BBC spec, it was delivered to Television Centre in 1965. The idea was to build a camera crane that would fit on the footprint of a Vinten ped, but have the range of a Mole crane…