CBS Television production truck early days

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[wmbrown6]

In addition, in 1967-68, CBS augmented their PC-70 stock with Marconi Mark VII color cameras which were already in use at three of their O&O's (in Los Angeles, Chicago and St. Louis); Mark VII's were put in service at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in Manhattan in 1968 as a replacement for the PC-70's there.

[wmbrown6]

Even before Norelco introduced their PC-60 color cameras, CBS had developed an "anything but RCA" attitude in terms of equipment buying; when the RCA TK-10/30 and TK-11/31 cameras came due for replacement in 1962-63, CBS acquired Marconi Mark IV cameras. In terms of film chains, after going color, CBS bought General Electric PE-240's for use in New York and at TV City in Hollywood. (In NYC for certain, the GE's replaced RCA TK-26's that were so rarely used, their horizontal linearity was poor.)

[Ward5190]

De Norelco PC-70 kleurencamera's zijn een ontwikkeling van PHILIPS in Nederland ( Holland ). Het type onder de merknaam PHILIPS was LDK-3 en werden ook in Breda vervaardigd, het waren de eerste goede kleurentelevisiecamera's ter wereld. Dit was mogelijk geworden door de door PHILIPS ontwikkelde Plumbicon opnamebuizen en een verdeelprisma voor de kleuren rood, groen en blauw.

[mspysu79]

This is what a TV remote truck looked like in the late 1960's

[nathanielscott]

@dane774

Hi Dane,

Thank you so much for the offer. Unfortunately, even if you wanted to give the stuff to me I could not afford to get it. In the past I used to ship equipment from the east coast. These days I can no longer afford to so.

Thanks again though, and I will pass on the message to anyone else I know who may be interested.

nathan

[dane774]

@nathanielscott I have the entire setup in a r/v that was once owned by channel 6 news and I'm selling ALL OF THE EQUIPMENT including the Antenna pole wich raises and turns.

Let me know if your interested.

407-745-4370 Dane.

[nathanielscott]

I am currently building a tv production truck using a 1976 Chevy Module Van Ambulance for the truck and all recycled equipment. Much of the equipment was discarded because it was broken and I have been able to repair those pieces. There is actually not a thing in the truck that is new except for maybe some rack-rail bolts.

Anyway, this video is great in that it helps be see the changes between trucks today and days gone bye. It is good to see the old configurations.

Thanks for posting!

[ClassicShowbiz]

The heck is this from anyway?

[fromthesidelines]

CBS did not telecast ANY color programs from the fall of 1959 through September 1965, even though they'd done so on a limited basis from 1954 through mid-'59. The reason was because of William Paley's {"Mr. CBS"} rivalry with David Sarnoff {"General RCA"}; he didn't want RCA {who heavily promoted color programming through NBC} to capitalize on ANY CBS color telecasts in order to sell more RCA color sets ["I'll be damned if I'm going to let the General do that", Paley privately commented].

[wmbrown6]

@altfactor - When CBS first began colorcasting on a regular basis in 1965, the Norelco color camera model in use was the PC-60; the center belt on which the logo was displayed was laid out differently than all variations of the PC-70 (which was first produced in early 1966, initially at Norelco's Mount Vernon, NY plant; in the later years of the PC-70, production shifted to another Norelco plant, in Montvale, NJ).