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Audio

(Harris) Radio Company

• Gates Radio Company 
• History
  

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• RCA 77D
  

Cameras

Eyes of a Generation.com

"Eyes of a Generation" was created by Bobby Elerbee, a vintage TV camera collector-restorer, to be the next step in the evolution of classic television camera sites. 

Pharis-Video.com

This is one of the first sites devoted to TV camera history. Chuck Pharis may have the worlds largest and most complete collection of broadcast camera equipment.

RCA TK-41

Owned by Kris Trexle, this site is dedicated to the broadcast color camera that was the industry standard from the earliest days of broadcast color television. 

Lots of great photos

Museum of the Broadcast Television Camera
This web site was created to provide an authoritative source of information about the technical and other details of Broadcast Television Cameras and their associated equipment.

CBS Chromacoder System

From the Early Television Foundation & Museum website.

"The "new" system described by CBS was the use of its field sequential cameras (modified RCA TK-30s with color wheels) with a new device called the Chromacoder, which took the sequential color pictures and encoded them in the NTSC standard."

 Video Tape

The  Quad Videotape Group

Video Tape Equipment

• Videopark.com
• Barry Mishkind-The Electric Engineer
  

 TV Equipment

• The Ampex Broadcast Archive

TV Equipment

•  The Broadcast Archive
• RCA-NBC Firsts in Color Television
  
• Manuals
  
• Transmitters
  

Network TV Studio History

From the Retired CBS Engineers Association web site this page lists most of the early TV Studio facilities and locations.

NTSC History - National Television System Committee

The National Television Systems Committee was established in 1940 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to resolve the conflicts which had arisen between companies over the introduction of a nationwide analog television system in the U.S.

 First TV Star

The 13" Felix the Cat figure made of paper mache was placed on a record player turntable and was broadcast using a mechanical scanning disk to an electronic kinescope receiver.

UK Golden Age Television Recreations

Restoration of Broadcast Equipment

Video Preservation

Color Television Standard Battle CBS Vs RCA

Early TV Program Videos