[BC] KTLA's "City at Night"...

[Burt I. Weiner]

You may remember KTLA had a weekly evening show called "City at 
Night".  They would go to business that ran at night and do a live 
broadcast (what else was there???)  Two that stick in my mind are the 
remotes they did from The Los Angeles Times and the one from their 
own studios on Marathon Street.

Sid Ceaser, Imogene Coca and Carl Rhiner on "Your Show of Shows" 
always had me doubled up on the floor in laughter.

Burt


At 06:35 AM 2/14/2006, you wrote:
>From: DHultsman5 at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [BC]  TV History
>To: broadcast at radiolists.net
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>In a message dated 2/14/06 12:41:18 A.M. Central Standard Time,
>miltron at mindspring.com writes:
>
>Now,  Ernie Kovacs, Sid Caesar, etc. -- that was special.  And
>Omnibus with  Alistair Cooke.
>
>
>Glen Kippel
>
>
>
>How about pre-discovery channel????  Sunday afternoons   NBC's  Wide-Wide
>World 1 hours of remotes with Dave Garroway for 
>all  over.  Including the remote
>for Havans Cuba in color in 1955 or 6   using a DC3 flying in a figure 8
>pattern halfway between Miami and Havana.   Lost video on some of the turns.
>
>Or switching to The State Fair of Texas with the first view being of a
>camera on a ferris wheel about to top the wheel.  A friend of mine 
>was  involved
>with that shot all live, no tape.  They made cable brackets on 
>the  perimeter of
>the ferris wheel and ran it backward to wind on enough cable for  three
>revoultions (B&W cable).  Then time the shot with cues from 
>New  York to switch to
>the peaking of the camera and one revolution while four guys  on the bottom
>pulled the cable off the gigantic reel to keep from  tangling.
>
>CBS's   Omnibus......Walter & CBS  You Are There
>
>Dave

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