This is a good issue for many reasons.
1. Harry Hershfield cover.
2. Articles on Alistaire Cooke, Mickey Dolenz, and videotape.
3. Contact info for twenty-four quiz shows; the quiz show scandal would break in August of 1958.
4. The center double-truck half page ad is for a movie-- playing at a movie theatre, "Too magnificent for a small screen." It was a flop.
5. An artcile about the introduction of television tape which would end live television with a couple of years.
Pittsburgh station KDKA (K D KARTOONS) signed on as WDTV (DuMont) in 1949, followed by one of the first educational stations WQED in 1954. WTAE (ABC) signed on in September, 1957 and WBOY in November. WIIC signed on in 1958. WJAC (Johnstown PA) is the only station with local live color equipment.
Personal notes: on page A3, there is an ad for 45RPM "EP" records, EP for extended play, RCA's pathetic response to Columbia's LP. A four-record "album" was the equivalent to an LP, but the RCA record store in Atlanta (Jim Salee's in Buckhead) still had hundreds of these unsold albums gathering dust in the 1970's.
On Sunday at 4PM, on NBC there is the live New York production "Washington Square," a short-lived Ray Bolger variety series in a original format. I have seen this episode, and despite Molly Goldberg and Stubby Kaye, it does not click.
August 2022
Pittsburgh station KDKA (K D KARTOONS) signed on as WDTV (DuMont) in 1949, followed by one of the first educational stations WQED in 1954. WTAE (ABC) signed on in September, 1957 and WBOY in November. WIIC signed on in 1958. WJAC (Johnstown PA) is the only station with local live color equipment.
Personal notes: on page A3, there is an ad for 45RPM "EP" records, EP for extended play, RCA's pathetic response to Columbia's LP. A four-record "album" was the equivalent to an LP, but the RCA record store in Atlanta (Jim Salee's in Buckhead) still had hundreds of these unsold albums gathering dust in the 1970's.
On Sunday at 4PM, on NBC there is the live New York production "Washington Square," a short-lived Ray Bolger variety series in a original format. I have seen this episode, and despite Molly Goldberg and Stubby Kaye, it does not click.
August 2022