{"id":28330,"date":"2013-11-07T06:08:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T11:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=28330"},"modified":"2021-03-28T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T20:52:08","slug":"ktla-innovations-july-4-1958-ktla-became-the-first-station-anywhere-to-br","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=28330","title":{"rendered":"KTLA Innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KTLA Innovations<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bel Air Fire November 6 1961 KTLA coverage\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/517dCXFUufQ?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 \/>\nJuly 4, 1958 KTLA became the first station anywhere to broadcast live from a helicopter. The chopper was called the &#8220;Telecopter&#8221; and not only did it shoot live pictures, it also was used to bounce live shots from the &#8220;Telemobile&#8221; to Mount Wilson. The Special Coverage Unit was a self contained Ford station wagon with extra suspension, a live camera on top, CCUs in the back and it pulled a generator with a microwave dish and could broadcast while moving, as it often did, when pressed into coverage service on the Rose Bowl Parades. The link is to a clip of the Bel Air fires in 1961 where both are in service. In the photo we see cameraman Dick Watson with a TK30 in 1959 but in the clip, there is a new Marconi Mark IV on the roof. Thanks to Judy Watson, (former secretary to KTLA&#8217;s John Silva and Dick&#8217;s wife) for the photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/593781523992734\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/KTLA-Innovations-July-4-1958-KTLA-became-the-first-station-anywhere-to-br\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/593781570659396\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KTLA Innovations July 4, 1958 KTLA became the first station anywhere to broadcast live from a helicopter. The chopper was called the &#8220;Telecopter&#8221; and not only did it shoot live pictures, it also was used to bounce live shots from the &#8220;Telemobile&#8221; to Mount Wilson. The Special Coverage Unit was a self contained Ford station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28331,"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":[724,1214,1251,764],"class_list":["post-28330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cast","tag-ford","tag-marconi-mark-iv","tag-microwave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330","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=28330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60556,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330\/revisions\/60556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}