The Macys Parade...How Its Done & How It All Started Our friend Joel Spector will be playing all the music today for the broadcast, just like he has for over 25 years. That alone is a massive undertaking, but just one of many parts to one of televisions largest jigsaw puzzles. This video should start at 1:44 and this segment covers the pre production and rehearsals, that start at midnight. At 21:54, the parades history segment starts. Mat Lauer says the television coverage began in 1948, but thats not exactly right. Network coverage began in 48 on CBS, but local experimental coverage was done by NBC in 1939. NBC also carried the parade locally in 1945, 46 and 47. Although the parade began in 1924, it didnt become widely known until after it was featured in the 1947 film, Miracle On 34th Street, which included footage of the 1946 festivities. At first, network coverage was only an hour long. In 1961, the telecast expanded to two hours, then 90 minutes beginning in 1962, before reverting to a two-hour telecast in 1965; all three hours of the parade were televised by 1969. The event began to be broadcast in color in 1960. NBC airs the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade live in the Eastern Time Zone, but tape delays the telecast elsewhere to allow the program to air in the same 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. time slot across the country. The afternoon playbacks started in 2008. Just ahead, some early footage of the parade. Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving! -Bobby Ellerbee youtu.be/0mCeBK43a0A?t=1m44s
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:05:42 +0000
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