In Part 5 an early mobile unit is seen in action at LaGuardia airport in New York City. The call letters of the TV station WJZ-TV, Channel 7, was the original ABC owned station in New York. WJZ first signed on in August of 1948. The station changed to WABC-TV in 1953 and the WJZ call letters were reassigned to a Westinghouse Broadcasting station in Baltimore. Positioning a camera on the truck to get a high angle view was something we did at WBGU-TV in Bowling Green, OH. My first remote truck experience. The truck was about the same size, but packed with even more equipment.
The first World Series game to be televised occurred on September 30th of 1947 when Game 1 between the Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers was televised. (In case you missed it…The Yankees won that game 5-3 and took the Series in 7 games.)
The client for this project, The Austin Company, has been designing and constructing buildings for 140 years. Besides designing and building TV-studios across the country, the company's more recent work in the Cleveland area includes the Plain Dealer production plant in Brooklyn, OH and the Lincoln Electric world headquarters in Euclid, OH.
-Neil McCormick
30 окт 2024
