First U.S. Nationally Televised Videotaped BroadcastIn 1957, NBC taped President Dwight D. Eisenhower's oath of office for his second term inauguration. It was replayed almost immediately to a national audience. CBS had made the first-ever broadcast use of videotape on 30 Nov 1956. with a rebroadcast to the West Coast of the 15-minDouglas Edwards and the News program. It was recorded earlier on 2-inch tape with an Ampex Mark IV machine. The videotape recorder invented by Ray Dolby was ready in Feb 1956 when Ampex had a successful in-house demonstration. After it was introduced at the annual CBS affiliates meeting in Chicago on 14 Apr 1956, taped programming quickly became the normal method in broadcasting« |
