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Postwar Television

Remote Telecasting Vans

United States

  • Vans by RCA
  • DuMont Telecruiser
  • Helicopters and Airplanes

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KTBX-TV

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WLW - Cincinnati, Ohio

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Beck Studios, Inc.

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KEYD - Minneapolis, Minnesota

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KCSC - Charleston, South Carolina

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KTLA - Los Angeles

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KOTV - Tulsa, Oklahoma

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KRSC - Seattle, Washington- 1948

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Using a Checker Marathon Airport Limo (Checker was famous for being the predominant New York cab for years). Late 50s or early 60s.

Courtesy of John Pinckney

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WBRC (Birmingham, Alabama) Van, mid 50s. Notice that a 16 mm camera was used rather than a TV camera.

Courtesy of Jim in Seattle

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NBC remote using 1953 Cadillac

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WDAF (Kansas City)

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Here is a photo for you from around 1960 showing news coverage of a statue being cleaned in Volunteer Park, Seattle ... was that breaking news?

KING calls themselves 'First in the Northwest' but that's not quite true.  They took over operations of the failing KRSC a few months after it started. -

Courtesy of Jim from Seattle

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Courtesy of Chuck Conrad - Texas Museum of Broadcasting & Communications

Syracuse University remote van

 

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Courtesy of Jim in Seattle

 

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Van used to televise the 1955 Rose Bowl parade

Courtesy of Steve Dichter

 
Television Coverage of the Presidential Inauguration (Courtesy of Dave Sica)

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Courtesy of Harry Moore

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1950

Courtesy of Jerry Love

British and European Vans

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Van used by Portuguese Television (Mid 50s)

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1957 Hungarian production van, apparently using Pye equipment.

Courtesy of Kalm r Zolt n

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RAI (Italian) production van, 1954

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Courtesy of Jim in Seattle

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Fernseh GmbH O.B. TV Truck(1963)

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BBC Type 2 Colour mobile control room (1969)

 

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(Courtesy of the Virtual Museum of the Broadcast TV Camera)

British BBC MCR21 (1963)

Museum of the Broadcast TV Camera restoration project

Project Vivat
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South American Vans

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Courtesy of Luis Eduardo Larrosa Trinidad

 

Australian Vans

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Outside Broadcasting Van, Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956

 

 


 
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