He's also best remembered for being such a male chauvinist when it came to co-hosting the TODAY show with Barbara Walters. Whenever they had a guest on, Frank insisted that he ask the guest three questions before Barbara could ask just one questions of that guest.
"WORLD WIDE 60" was a weekly documentary series on NBC's Saturday night schedule [9:30-10:30pm(et)] throughout most of 1960, usually anchored by Frank McGee. However, for this July 9, 1960 preview of the upcoming Democratic National Convention (which began in Los Angeles on July 11th), Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC's anchors for the convention, appeared in McGee's place.
I didn't say they telecast the 1960 conventions in color- yes, NBC was the only network regularly scheduling color programs at that time, but not ALL of their programming was colorcast. In fact, only a handful of daytime, prime-time and weekend programs were in color [and certainly not their news programming!].
This 1960 convention either was the last or the second-to-last one where the delegates had the option of doing one ballot, changing their minds and doing a 2nd ballot, more indecision, then a third, etc. In this video you hear one of the NBC correspondents mention delegates have that option. I forget whether the 1964 Democratic convention in Atlantic City allowed that. If it did, then the Freedom Summer delegates had a lot to say about that option or the lack of it. In 1968, only one ballot was allowed. It's been that way ever since.
The opening and closing voiceover sounds like the late Eddy King, who was one of NBC's West Coast staff announcers (along with the likes of Donald Rickles, Frank Barton, Arch Presby and Don Stanley) as constituted in 1960; not only announced on NBC Burbank-produced shows, but also for what was then KRCA (now KNBC) in Los Angeles which was then located at the old NBC Radio studios on Sunset and Vine (sharing the same roof as the original "Music Center of the World" studios of RCA Victor Records).
But NBC did not televise the 1960 conventions in color. I think their first convention colorcasts were 1964, but only within the convention hall. I believe segments outside the hall were in black-and-white. It wasn't until 1968 that all three networks did the full convention in color. BTW, it was in 1961 that Gulf Oil began being the prime sponsor of NBC's special event coverage.
Back in the days of smoke-filled rooms and dignified politics, not that nothing crooked happened, it did at times. But politicians didn't always speak harshly of their opponents in those days.
Kentucky Kings.....with the All-Tobacco filter which lets in as much tar and nicotine as non-filter brands! I suspect that Eddie Albert did the Lipton spots on NBC's 1960 Convention coverage because Arthur Godfrey (who was their prime spokesman) was under contract to CBS. Three of the four "possible" First Ladies profiled in Look Magazine (as plugged in their commercial) eventually became First lady!
So interesting how different conventions were with the wild card Favorite Sons still holding sway...Primaries were much in the minority. Kept the process in the smoke filled room...real old time politics.
The program's sponsors were Brown & Williamson Tobacco [Kentucky Kings], Thomas J. Lipton [Lipton Tea, with Eddie Albert as their spokesman], Field Enterprises [World Book "Childcraft" encyclopedia, featuring Hugh Downs as their spokesman], B.F. Goodrich [tires], Cowles Magazines [Look; Norman Rose, announcer], and Radio Corporation of America [RCA Victor color TV, featuring Vaughn Monroe as spokesman]. Incidentally, NBC was the ONLY network that regularly scheduled color programs at that time.
Of course, back in 1960, Hugh Downs was already on NBC weekdays with "Concentration", and late nights with Jack Paar on the "Tonight Show", so there was that.
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Hi! Is there a chance you have the episode "The Immense Design" from this show? Or have an idea where I could look for it? The episode was narrated by actor Victor Buono and I'm a huge fan. :)
Wow, an all tobbaco filter!, A double killer C-Stlck, it wasn't till '64 the Surgeon General came out with it's first warnings on the side of cig packs "Warning, the Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health", My mom quit smoking after reading an article in the Readers digest, describing someone dying with a tube sticking up from his trachea, scared her enough to quit, she was only about 36 then
