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Posted by Buckles at 6/24/2017 06:01:00 AM
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"Toast Of The Town"
Every Sunday night
on CBS TV (Columbia
Broadcasting System)
The Ed Sullivan Theater
at 53rd Street & Broadway
was built in the mid 20s
It went by several names
before it became CBS Studio 50
It was their 1st color facility
Renamed for Sullivan late 60s
I just recalled that it was
CBS Studio 72 at 81st Street
& Broadway that was the 1st
CBS color facility & not 50
I worked at 72 a few times
as a sub electrician during
my Stagehand apprenticeship
on "The Edge Of Night"
I think these photos came from LA West. Sullivan's last black and white show was the Beatles in August 1965 and the show went out west that fall to do the show in color. They remodeled the New York facility ( studio 50? ) during the time the show was out west? There was not any CBS FCC approved color equipment in New York until they did the remodel in the fall of 1965? Beatles were going to come back to his show in 1966 and do it in color, but it never happened.
CBS had developed color tv back in the 50's but their equipment couldn't be used for some reason by the FCC. Sulluvan did some one time color specials using CBS's color equipment in the 1950's at studio 72 which came down in the 1986?
Only RCA made FCC color equipment at the time and CBS wouldn't have them. They had to wait for the Norelco (Philips) pc-60 color cameras to come out.
p.j.
RCA's "Compatible Color" system had won over the CBS "Mechanical Color" system with the FCC.
NBC's Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961-1969) was shot in color with the RCA cameras and taking more and more viewers from the other networks.
The Norelco (Philips) PC-60 ( Philips color - 60 = 1960 year it was invented) helped CBS go to color without using RCA equipment.
Philips could not use their name in the states because of a lawsuit with the Philco company in 1940 as the names were too close to being the same. I think Philips purchased Philco after Ford spun Ford Aerospace from it in the early 1980's. Ford later sold the Ford Aerospace unit as well.
p.j.
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