Roger
meets Jack Benny---and offers direction to the beloved comic in a moment of
need.
Studio
A---the personalities (including the legendary Ron Hunter) and the productions
of the Merchandise Mart's largest studio.
Studio
E and Floyd Kalber---the home of news broadcasts at channel 5.
Studio
D---the Merchandise Mart's newest television studio.
Studio
A-1---managers hoped this studio attract lucrative commercial production.
But studio A-1 (originally studio B and later designated studio Q) was most often
dark. (Perhaps appropriately, given the fact that, in the early days of network
radio, it was the home to the thriller Light
Out.
Master
control---where the illuminated map continued to glow.
The
field shop and camera room---and the ingenuity of the denizens thereof.
The
staff announcers---before they were replaced by tape cartridge machines.
Len
O'Connor---and the night his out-takes were aired.
Bob
Lemon---the general manager behind the renaissance of channel 5
Father
John Banahan---and channel 5's continuing public service committment.
Lee
Schulman---the general manager known as "Bullet Dome".
The
move to the NBC Tower---did things get better in the new building?
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