Posts Tagged ‘RCA’
Nat Johnson, 83, Announcer, Producer, Engineer
Nat Johnson is remembered as a visionary broadcaster, master sound engineer, and tireless advocate for the preservation of musical and historical heritage.
Read MoreLive Music Television at WGBH: Cosel, Atwood, and Norton
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That’s how we learned how to direct: live. We didn’t have any choice. We did stuff live because we couldn’t afford to record it!
Read MoreGordon Mehlman Shares Memories of WGBH Engineering Innovations
When I applied to WGBH in 1968, I had already interacted with the engineering department and so was lucky enough to be hired immediately.
Read MoreJack Kean, 90, Emmy Award-winning Engineer
In 1999, Jack received an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences: The Silver Circle Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Read MoreStereo Television: Origins
WGBH-FM was already attracting listeners who cared about the quality of sound. Why just radio? Why not television?
Read MoreProducing and recording "Favorite Themes for Masterpiece Theatre"
In 1980, shortly after departing WGBH to seek fame (and possibly fortune) as an independent producer, I approached Joan Wilson with a proposal to issue a record album of “Favorite Themes from Masterpiece Theatre.” Joan went for the idea immediately and
Read MoreProducing and recording “Favorite Themes for Masterpiece Theatre”
From Nat Johnson: I was stunned to learn from my studio producer that a musical legend would be joining the band that morning: Alan Civil had played in the Beatles’ albums “Revolver” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Holy Cow!
Read MoreRecollections of a WGBH-FM Volunteer (1951-52)
From Russ Butler A small announcement in The Boston Globe caught my attention. It was 1951, and I was a 17-year old junior in a Boston high school and fascinated with radio broadcasting. The one column-inch notice read that a new FM radio station would begin broadcasting from studios in Symphony Hall. Next day, I…
Read MoreRobert Hall, 70, WGBH-TV Engineer, Wearer of Many Hats
From TVTechnology.com – 8/31/2007 Television Innovator and Production Company Co-Founder, Robert Hall, Dies at 70 Robert H. Hall, a Philadelphia area television engineer and the co-founder of a television production company in that city, died at his home in Exton, Pa. on August 16. He was 70. Hall began his broadcasting career with WGBH in…
Read MoreStudio A (1967)
From David Atwood David Atwood (camera) and Steve Potter (dolly) shooting a 1967 production starring Lotte Lenya (Dave Davis directing). The monstrously unwieldy and notoriously unstable TK-60 camera, sporting a turret of four fixed lenses, is the last black and white model that RCA ever made. These guys are operating the equally unwieldy (though beloved)…
Read MoreQuo vadis WGBH (1946-2000)
From Don Hallock: It may surprise you to know how many places the station has called home. WGBH’s origins were in a converted skating rink on the second floor of 84 Mass. Ave. and the office spaces on the third, were the first home of WGBH from 1955 to 1961.
Read MoreThen and Now (1955-2000)
From Don Hallock The Buildings Then: The station in 1958, occupying a rather dusty second and third floor roller-skating rink in an old brick building located opposite MIT at 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. (Photo by Brooks Leffler.) In 2000, WGBH sprawled over extensive real estate near Harvard. This is the main studio building at 125…
Read MoreRelics from the Fire
Text by Don Hallock A small collection of memorabilia which survived the 1961 fire. This brass plaque adorned the entrance to the 84 Massachusetts Avenue studios. We who worked there walked past it almost every day of the year, where it was affixed to the column just left of the front door (circled in the…
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