A couple of thoughts went through my mind as I reviewed this series of interviews featuring sports journalist and former talk show host Bob Costas. The first was that the interviews hold up surprisingly well, despite being more than 15 years old. Snyder and Costas compared notes on dated material such as the end of [...]
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Pictures Flying Through The Air
Allow me to introduce yet another semi-regular (is it fair to call them irregular?) series, this one centered around the late Tom Snyder. Snyder worked in local and network news, hosted late night talk shows on two networks and one cable channel, and was one of the first celebrities to openly embrace the internet, blogging [...]
Kevin and the Peacock – Part Eight
In 2007, a decade since I had given my first NBC Studio tour, I was given the chance to do it one more time. As a school teacher, I had tried to tell my students about life behind-the-scenes, but they had to see for themselves (click here for a video montage of the Carson studio, [...]
Kevin and the Peacock – Part One
So begins a multi-part series chronicling my days working for NBC, part of the nostalgia I am beginning to feel for a studio about to be destroyed in the name of progress. Part one begins at the very beginning. Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for the year 1994. The place: Burbank, specifically, the Catalina Building [...]
