Photo: As radios became more portable, people started to realize tiny TVs could be too. The waves themselves aren't the information: the information surfs on Waves carrying information like the waves on the sea carrying You probably know that these signals areĬarried by radio waves, invisible patterns of
(the information being broadcast) through the air, television sends a The basic idea of television is "radio with pictures." In other Were much bigger and bulkier and virtually all of them were using cathode-ray tube (CRT) Their pictures using LCDs, plasma, or OLEDs (organic LEDs). Photo: Virtually everyone has flatscreen TVs these days, which make But how exactly does it work? Let's take a closer look! Whether TV is good or bad, there's no doubting that it's an ingenious Hopelessly dumbed down and refused to let his children watch it. One of TV's inventors, Philo Tįarnsworth (1906–1971), came to the conclusion that television was Year) than they do sitting in school (900 hours a year). That children spend more time watching TV (on average 1023 hours a Television has transformedĮntertainment and education in the United States, it's been estimated Walking on the Moon, see athletes breaking records, or listen to world Last updated: January 12, 2022.īutton, you can travel from the North Pole to the Serengeti, watch men I vividly recall seeing NBC star Gene Rayburn walk off the color set to do live black and white Spring Cigarette commercials on the NBC afternoon telecasts of my favorite game show, "The Match Game.By Chris Woodford. Not many advertisers were willing to spend extra for color commercials! It was odd to see a TV personality magically switch from Living Color to drab monochrome as they walked in front of the black and white cameras, but it was quite common in the 50's and 60's even on NBC network shows. Most TK-41's at other facilities, especially in multiple-camera studios, were equipped with multiple-lens turrerts, not Zoomars.įor many live commercials, Major Astro (Tom Leahy) walked off the color set into a separate set equipped with black and white RCA TK-11 cameras. With only one color camera on the set, the Zoomar lens made it easier to "go in for a close-up" than dollying the heavy Houston Fearless pedestal. The zoom action wasn't very smooth, but this revolutionary lens eliminated the need for multiple focal length lenses mounted on a turret. Note the early Zoomar lens that is controlled by the silver plunger at the rear of the camera. Like many NBC affiliates in the 1950's and 1960's, KARD was able to afford only one of the giant RCA TK-41 color television cameras. On the set of KARD's popular afternoon children's program "Major Astro." (KARD has since changed its call letters to KSNW)Įngineer Ron Jordan adjusts the controls of the RCA TK-41 live studio camera and RCA TK-26 color film camera in KARD-TV Master Control. KARD was the flagship station of a chain of several NBC affiliates in Kansas called "The Kansas State Network." KARD-TV studios at 833 North Main Street - Wichita, Kansas in 1964.
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I continue to work on network situation comedies, having edited countless hours of programming you may have watched at one time or another.Īs you follow the story, you'll even have the opportunity to download and watch the original NBC color peacocks and rare color presentation logos from early ABC and CBS color broadcasts as well. Everything from "All in the Family," early MTV videos including work with Michael Jackson, segments for several years of Academy Awards telecasts, and even a couple of treasured Emmy awards on the mantle. I have been blessed with a satisfying and successful career as a film and video editor in Hollywood, working on major network broadcasts. It was the one of the luckiest decisions I ever made. Despite my parents' misgivings, I set my sights on a career in television. The sight of KARD's amazing color television camera and space-age master control room were all it took to ignite my aspirations to work in television broadcasting. As a 14 year old boy I toured this television station in my hometown, and a lifetime love for broadcasting was born.
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