In 1966, color television was still a new idea. This was one of the best cameras of its day, the RCA TK-42.

A view from the operator side of the camera.

You've gotta' love the print ads for the RCA TK-42 Color Television Camera. They sold TV equipment the same way they sold cars and everything else, put a babe in the shot!

What I really love about these ads though is how well they were produced. This one is printed on card stock and has harldy yellowed in over 40 years. This is an unretouched scan.

This is the obverse of the previous page, touting the wonders of the TK-42. To their credit, these were good looking cameras and the claims about them are all true. If you have ever seen a good quality recording of a show shot with two or three of these beauties, you know what I am talking about.

I have been told by senior engineers at the station that the EM used these cameras for a time.

WNAC-TV 7 Boston ID Slide from the mid 60's. This was the television sister station of The Big 68, WRKO AM 680.

WNAC-TV 7 Boston ID Slide from 1982. This was toward the end of the Boston era of this legacy New England call. They would become WNEV-TV and the WNAC call would go to Providence as the call letters of WNAC-TV Fox 64.

This is the original Channel 2 test pattern that used to air at all hours of the day back in the 1960's. WGBH is the Public Broadcasting affiliate.

This is before my time and looks like a reproduction, so I cannot attest to its accuracy. It looks pretty good though.

This is the WBZ pattern I remember growing up. This aired into the 1980's and, like virtually all patterns of that era, had a slide as a source.