{"id":31916,"date":"2012-11-15T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T10:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=31916"},"modified":"2016-10-28T05:40:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:40:20","slug":"the-arrival-of-the-rca-tk44s-in-6bthis-photo-is-probably-from-mid-to-late-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=31916","title":{"rendered":"The Arrival Of The RCA TK44s In NBC Studio 6B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arrival Of The RCA TK44s In 6B<\/p>\n<p>This photo is probably from mid to late 1971. That&#8217;s when The Tonight Show gave up it&#8217;s TK41s for the TK44s. All the other studios had already converted, but Johnny and Fred De Cordova liked the TK41&#8217;s warmth. Most other studios probably had the TK44As, but I suspect Carson held out for the much better 44B which debuted in early 71. When they moved to Burbank, Studio 1 had TK44s but I can tell this is a Studio 6B camera because there is no top viewfinder fan. All NBC Burbank TK44s used in the studio had the extra exhaust fan installed on top when they arrived because a heat build up in the viewfinders caused the CRT tube to stop working. Network cameras are in use a lot more hours than cameras at local stations and overtime, overheat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/450360855001469\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Arrival-Of-The-RCA-TK44s-In-6B-This-photo-is-probably-from-mid-to-late-19\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/450360868334801\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arrival Of The RCA TK44s In 6B This photo is probably from mid to late 1971. That&#8217;s when The Tonight Show gave up it&#8217;s TK41s for the TK44s. All the other studios had already converted, but Johnny and Fred De Cordova liked the TK41&#8217;s warmth. Most other studios probably had the TK44As, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31917,"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":[683,782,787,788,806],"class_list":["post-31916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cameras","tag-nbc","tag-net","tag-rca","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31916","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=31916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}