Q: What do Barbie and Paris Hilton have in common?
A: Both are blonde, brainless and made out of plastic.
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« |
