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Well, I think for the moment, it's enough to celebrate the fact that they're still around, rather than get sidetracked on matters that essentially **don't** matter in the long run. After 60+ years, I'm not even certain how I got to where **I** am, much less tracking the travels of a bunch of...

In case some folks hadn't heard the news... https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/beatles-etc-on-us-abc-network-tv-show-shindig-a-little-good-news-about-our-musical-heritage.1180425/ - Kevin

Frank, Nancy, Joey, Sammy, Peter and some Army guy... - Kevin

A release date had now been set by Eagle Rock for the official FSE release of "Welcome Home Elvis" on DVD... it's 5/19/17. No indication of what archive material will be used... and no details regarding any restoration. However, I would imagine that since it's the only surviving show on tape...

It was an acetate that came up for auction/sale on eBay. - Kevin

Thanks very much for the clarifying info, Bob. It's nice to know that a copy of the "good" kinescope will be available when the time comes...! - Kevin

...and it's in hi-fi, folks! 56 years after its initial broadcast, and 41 years after ABC is said to have discarded the original master videotape, a high-quality source of the soundtrack for the Frank Sinatra-hosted 1960 Timex special has finally been located. The special, officially titled...

To talk about the other 10% for a moment, though... As is often the case with this rabbit-hole we call the InterWebs... I was searching for information on another topic, and came across the late-2015 press release that Shout Factory put out regarding its license extension with the Kovacs...

Well, I'm not sure either, but it shows the 9/27/54 program in the zap2it listings, and on my Tivo... so I guess we'll see. - Kevin

Check your listings for Sunday night, guys... Here in Portland, according to our local Antenna TV listings, we have a 5/21/74 show (Don Rickles, Freddie Prinze, etc.) running from 7:00 - 8:30 PM, and the program airing from 10:30 - 12:00 is dated 9/27/54...! It's possible that someone is...

As a technician [and apparently somewhat of an internet hermit :^) ], it's very rare that I get to read such a gratifying comment. Thank you very much. It's frustrating for me, too-- but I always hold out hope that someone will actually want to make the investment to improve their archive...

No, kinescope films aren't nitrate, but as with any film element, it depends on how they're stored. All it takes is one wrong preservation decision by the head of an archive, and an entire collection can lost. Pretty much too unstable and warped to even be scanned frame by frame (as if...

I've spoken with Alex regarding other Showcase projects-- not the least of which being that I have a high-quality magnetic soundtrack for their production of "Jack & The Beanstalk" (for which he actually has a reel of **COLOR** kinescope, as well as the full B&W program)... but nothing has ever...

Oh, he's still around... :D I would have liked to have had a shot at this show, in order to upgrade it and share it with everyone, but as usual, I'm afraid the best version will be the one that's on my computer after I buy a copy of what they release... as long as the same people that were...

Well, not to just be poking holes in things, but the act of simple duplication of something does not in and of itself constitute publication. Nor does distribution of copies in and of itself constitute publication. It's generally held that the unrestricted transfer of ownership of those...

Guys-- The old CBS game show eps are NOT in the public domain. Broadcast does not constitute publication. And if they were never published, they can't have been published with a defective copyright notice, which would have been necessary for them to have gone into PD status. Similarly, two...

Ahh-- thanks, Vahan-- that's what I get for trying to do **everything** from memory... :P - Kevin

Syndication is what I've been told-- but it seems to me that if they'd gone that way, we probably would never have seen the 100+ black & white daytime eps-- I'm betting they'd have done the same thing they did with "Password"-- just use the color shows, and then toss the rest. (And since the...

I'm afraid I don't have that info for TTTT... "I've Got a Secret" first experimented with the practice of pre-taping shows in 1958, and then did it in earnest the summer of 1959 (along with "What's My Line?"), so I'd have to guess that TTTT would have naturally followed suit. (Both "Secret"...

1) The 1963 ep is from a kinescope, if it's the one that Jack Clark hosts-- I'm not certain about the 1964 programs, however. 2) It seems more likely that (apart from summer breaks in the early years) there are just occasional holes in the archive... though my initial guess might be that...

1) I assume we're talking videotape masters, and if so, then the answer is: none that I know of. There are about 4 from 1965, a smattering from early 1966, and then the archive picks up in spring of 1966, though it's still spotty until 1967. Of course, Buzzr may prove me wrong... there may...

How'd she wrestle it out of Steve's hands? :^) - Kevin

I've known about the IGAS tape for at least 10 years, but still haven't had a chance to actually **see** it. I don't believe the archive it's in allows much unscheduled public viewing. And you are correct-- to date, GSN has only aired a kinescope copy of the 12/26/66 episode. The color...

I just wanted to correct a bit of info here-- There is one known B&W videotaped episode of IGAS which has survived the years (4/19/61, with guest June Allyson), and actually **two** color TTTT primetime eps exist-- the afore-mentioned 4/24/67 show and the program originally broadcast on...

In some other countries, there is a system that is analogous to a singer's "compulsory license" (which allows anyone to cover a song, and specifies the amount of royalty to be paid). In those countries, companies can issue a product containing music, as long as the specified royalties are paid...

Assuming the publishing company agrees to license the requested song at all, the following relevant details are among those considered (in no particular order) during the negotiation of the initial licensing agreement: - The type of rights being sought. - The geographic area of the proposed...

Unless there's a different agreement in place, half of the publishing license fee goes to the publisher, and the other half is split evenly amongst the composers. The recording artists and musicians are not compensated from this payment. The master recording licensing fee (paid to the record...

I'm sure the rate is going up, but as of a few years ago the music publisher would get between $5 -10K for the synch rights, and since WKRP used the hit versions, the various record labels would charge about $10K in master recording rights. So that's about $15-20K per song (and usually per...

Just about any variety show from the 1950s to the 1970s. - Kevin

I was told that they were kinescopes... and that there were a **lot**of them. Didn't get a specific run of dates, though. - Kevin