{"id":27394,"date":"2014-02-14T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27394"},"modified":"2021-04-23T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:20:51","slug":"great-nbcs-first-live-coast-to-coast-color-spectacular-on-sept-12-1954-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27394","title":{"rendered":"NBC&#8217;s First Live Coast To Coast Color Spectacular!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT! NBC&#8217;s First Live Coast To Coast Color Spectacular!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Betty Hutton - Satins and Spurs (1954)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yo0MEhjr7Xo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nOn Sept. 12, 1954 NBC broadcast their first live coast to coast color spectacular. The 90 minute show, &#8220;Satin &amp; Spurs&#8221; was produced by Max Liebman and starred Betty Hutton.<\/p>\n<p>Above is a black and white kinescope of the whole show, but there&#8217;s no mistaking as you look at the image that there is a &#8220;chroma layer&#8221; to the image. Following the end credits, Steve Allen has a very interesting live commentary from the set on the production, and reveals that with no control room in the new facility, the show was produced from a truck outside of NBC Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>There is a TK41 in that segment. At 1:10:13, Hutton does a curtain call and speaks to the television and live audience and sings out into the credits. At 1:14 Steve Allen&#8217;s comments come in followed by Don Pardo&#8217;s billboards of upcoming programs.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our friend Steve Dichter in LA for this information and the TV Guide page below that describes this event as &#8220;opening night of a new television era&#8221;. The spectaculars were the creation of none other than NBC&#8217;s Pat Weaver. At the time, the few color television sets available had 15&#8243; screens, but a few had the new 19&#8243; screen. 99% of viewers saw this on their larger screen black and white sets. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/635411899829696\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/GREAT-NBCs-First-Live-Coast-To-Coast-Color-Spectacular-On-Sept.-12-1954-N\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/635417483162471\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT! NBC&#8217;s First Live Coast To Coast Color Spectacular! On Sept. 12, 1954 NBC broadcast their first live coast to coast color spectacular. The 90 minute show, &#8220;Satin &amp; Spurs&#8221; was produced by Max Liebman and starred Betty Hutton. Above is a black and white kinescope of the whole show, but there&#8217;s no mistaking as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[724,686,782,725,826],"class_list":["post-27394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cast","tag-control-room","tag-nbc","tag-star","tag-steve-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61346,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394\/revisions\/61346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}