When Color TV Came to Sacramento
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- A half century ago, KCRA Channel 3 in Sacramento became the first television station in northern California to use color news film. The debut of this new technology was featured in the station's landmark 1964 broadcast called "Colorama." This piece contains snipets from that special program, which includes two of the station's most iconic personalities, Harry Martin and Mike Boyd.
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I interned at KCRA in 1995. I had grown up watching the Sacramento stations and Mike Boyd was a familiar face on TV. It was a hoot walking through the offices and hallways of channel 3 and seeing Mike and the others there doing their jobs. One morning, I parked in the lot and got out of my car with a bagged lunch. From behind me, I heard, in a deep voice, "Brought your lunch too, huh?" I turned around and it was Mike - who had just arrived also. He smiled and showed me his lunch bag. I said "Oh yeah. It's gonna be a long day." He said "Yes, for me too. A big announcement today." I said "The closing of McClellan Air Force Base?" "Yup. I got that one." he said. I grew up watching him and the other KCRA personalities and I found myself chatting with him in the KCRA parking lot.
People forget how primitive TV was for the longest time. I mean, the 70's and right after the 60's and they don't seem as archaic, but the 60's being in B&W the first half and color in the second, makes those of us who were not there think of that decade as two different types.
At 0:22 of this clip, you hear the NBC Radio hourly sounder used during the 1960's.
KCRA was, and is, an NBC-TV affiliate.
Thank you Chris. I am still awed by the proud legacy my Dad left behind. Your contributions have helped to immortalize a time in journalism when unbiased news gathering and integrity were never in question.
Mike Boyd A network news division could operate at a yearly loss and it wasn't questioned. Because the news was a public trust. Rather than a salable and (ugh) individualized commodity. It was simply the benchmark of an intelligent and moral society to keep its citizenry informed. Even as I write this I shudder at the depths to which we have sunk. The professionals, the men and women like your dad are still out there I guess. Albeit in slim numbers. And they have to feel a thousand times sicker than I do. I do thank heavens these people of conscientious integrity have the shoulders of giants to stand upon however. Your father clearly was one of those giants.
Mike Boyd I just had to pop back on to express how damn good your old man was. I work as an actor in Los Angeles and I started in voiceover. Your dad's tone and diction are astonishingly fluid. Seriously beyond the norm. It's a 54 year old newscast and I'm frankly intimidated by the clarity and precision with which he reads and speaks. I have to assume your father cut his teeth in radio, like most did in his day. Please excuse where I use the present tense. I suppose it's but a reflection of a skilled communicator's ability to reach across eras in a manner so seamless.
Hey Chris,
Thanks SO much for uploading this...as a KCRA historian, I felt like a kid at Disneyland watching this.
That said, I wish KCRA (or someone with access to station archives such as you) would do more about sharing its own station/company history, such as station growth, program evolution, changes in technology, etc.
Did Ewing Kelly ever appear on his own TV station? As far as I know, he never was on KCRA radio, either AM or FM. I'll PM you and maybe you & I can start a dialogue.
All I need now is to save a years earnings for a color TV
Very interesting at 4:15 to see American River College (then called American River Junior College?) in 1964.
Sad what's happened to both KCRA and NBC.
what happened?
@@danishalhasan4393 They’re unwatchable now with all the clutter they keep on the screen- especially the Olympics symbol for years at a time!
@@TheMediaHoarder Ah, well all of media has degraded in quality, it's sad to see that happen to local news too.
Yes it is. I began taking college courses in mass communications in 1992. I was in my early 30s. I was already aware of the downfall of national news reporting from the big 3 networks and CNN. Their bias was becoming clear. But I was confident that local news was impartial and mostly trustworthy. I even worked for an NBC affiliate for a couple of years. It wasn't until 2015 that many local stations began showing their true colors. It was disappointing and sad.
That logo "COLOR 3" of footage is the only thing uggly in Sacramento hahahaha. I say this because I was there July 4 2005 for a long weekend, passing by San Francisco, return to Austin Texas (2 weeks visiting a friend of mine). All the US nation cities are wonderful and prety nice extreme. All! Congratulations then in your independence day celebration and respect your wirdt president. (I know it is not a easy work) hahahaha huggs from Santiago de Chile.
He actually said the word 'diversified'.100% male, 100% white!!!!
That rascally Chris Lango has been rooting around in the archives again. What a treat! Thanks, Chris!
Nice!
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The camera that appear in the end is the RCA TK-41 which is far as i know a monochrome b&w Orthihon camera
As I said below, my guess would be that Harry Martin is gesturing to a B & W camera because when this special was filmed in October 1964, KCRA-TV didn't yet have the color cameras in their possession. They wouldn't get them until sometime in 1965. So they had to use what they had at the moment. And I'm sure they figured that their viewers wouldn't know the difference
anyway. I didn't.
I believe the camera was a Tk-60, the last b&w camera RCA made
Actually, RCA's TK-41 was a color camera, so that isn't the model shown.
TK-41 was color, and much bigger than the camera shown. I'll go with it being a TK-60 or one of its ancestors.