Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Motorola TV for '56

The Fine New Motorola TV for '56

"This book introduces the fine New Motorola TV for 1956. Altogether new. Different from the moment it is turned on." That's how we are introduced to this colorful booklet featuring all the latest innovations and models for the exciting new year in television.
The first pages inform us on something called Eye-Conditioned TV and the Series 1700 color television. Then we go ahead a page to have tiny men pointing and things so  learn more about the start - and the heart - of eye-conditioned TV. A tiny-waisted, pink-clad women stands a half an inch from the TV (and blocks our view) so we can see how easy it is to the new Motorola Power Panel controls. Behold the aluminar tube! I think the triangles are trying to attack the lonesome little girl. The Channelight selector and Front Tuning show us how easy it is to turn on and tune.
I love these two pages showing all the colors available for the 1956 line. The next page gets the product photos started. The 24k11 and the 13 other standard makes and models. Next, the decorator colors makes and models taunt me with their beauty.
Now, close up photos of the black-and-white models: 24k11, 24k10, 24k9, 24t4, 24t3, 21k45, 21k44, 21k4321k42  21k4121k40, 21k3921k3821k37, 21c4 (aka hypnosis through phallic shaped projectiles), 21t28, 21t27, 21t26, 21t25, 17t26, 17t25, 17t24.
The sudden shower of jewels let us know that it's color TV time. We get a fiesta of information (I want that to become a saying. People in charge - GET ON IT!) on the Exclusive Colorola Tuner. The models start with the 19ck1, 19ck2, and the very last page features a woman gardening while a man on the 19ct1, tells the woman where to bury the bodies (near the azaleas).


Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Breaking News From Dallas, Texas

Today marks the 48th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was taking on a trip through Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. He had arrived at Love Field that morning and was heading to the Dallas Trade Mart to give a speech when shots rang out.

These are the breaking news audio/video from various radio and television stations as the news broke.

Jay Watson, a reporter for WFAA-TV (Channel 8) in Dallas, Texas. Jay ran from Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas directly to the WFAA studios after the shots were fired.



WCCO Radio of Minneapolis, Minnesota:



From CBS News (during an episode of As The World Turns):





WLW Radio of Cincinnati, Ohio:



ABC Radio:



ABC-TV:



NBC-TV:

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Chicago Tribune TV Week - September 14-20, 1963

Barn Dance Swings to TV with Ruth and Edith Johnson in this issue of Chicago Tribune's TV Week magazine for September 14-20, 1963. In these 28 pages, you can see what was on television in the Chicago area in the Fall of 1963.

Chicago Tribune TV Week - September 14 - 20, 1963