The Paley Center for Media has posted footage from “The Streets of New York,” an August 1939 play broadcast live in New York City on W2XBS.
Streets of New York (1939): Earliest Surviving U.S. TV Footage
W2XBS Schedule, Week of August 27th, 1939
Schedule for experimental NBC station W2XBS in New York City for the week starting Sunday, August 27th, 1939.
David Lloyd (1934-2009)
Scriptwriter David Lloyd, who wrote the famous “Chuckles Bites the Dust” episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died at the age of 75.
New Article: Early Networks and the East-Midwest Connection
My latest article is about early TV networks and the East-Midwest connection of that took place on 1949, greatly expanding TV’s reach.
Update on Alternate Version of Star Trek Pilot on Blu-ray
The alternate version of the second Star Trek pilot episode that will be released on Blu-ray later this year was recovered in Germany and transferred to HD.
Bookshelf: Television in the Antenna Age
My review of Television in the Antenna Age by David Marc and Robert J. Thompson, published in 2005 by Blackwell Publishing.