And in the far future they needed genetic samples to clone the new human race. Which will now be led by newscasters LOL. Don’t listen to me I have a collection of tickets from movies back to the 1990s 🤘
Jaybrrd on
My dad was in broadcasting, through the 80s and 90s he was likely responsible for the satellite connections for a ton of the live news and sports you watched on TV. He had a very impressive collection of microphone cozies detailing his career displayed prominently in his office. When he moved to a retirement home he culled the collection, these are the ones he held onto. I got them after he passed earlier this year and I just put them up on the shelf.
Some of them have notes from where he got them – the CNN cozy is from the coverage of Hurricane Elena in 1984, the Golf Channel was from their very first live broadcast ever, ESPN was from the first nationally televised Florida State football game (vs Miami), and the NBC Olympics cozy is when they went to Seoul for the 1988 Olympics, and I’m relatively sure the other NBC cozy is from a Thanksgiving Parade.
He was quite an interesting man, and I miss him terribly.
Skizot_Bizot on
Did he work in the field or just an unusual collector?
coffeebeards on
I didn’t know collecting these were a “thing”.
That’s cool though.
HyperQuandaryAck on
just walk up during an interview and friggin yoink the thing right off the mic. there, now it’s yours
MiniBassGuitar on
When I was a radio reporter, we called these “billboards.”
_TheEnlightened_ on
Sorry for your loss friend
WashGodMega on
This is mildly interesting
ictguy24 on
Uplink engineer? Probably knew of him. Sorry for your loss.
weelluuuu on
Do they all smell like smoke and morning breath?
fastfood12 on
This is so cool. I never realized this was a thing. Thank you for sharing.
RandomGuyDroppingIn on
Those are genuinely ***very*** interesting. I’d imagine these things got all beat to hell from constant use and when they started to not look so great on camera either had to be re-decaled or simply discarded. It’s also really great that you have definitive provenance behind each of them. Outside of major events (ex: the OKC Bombing memorial has network TV cameras used to film the reporting on the bombing) most networks probably didn’t think to say “keep this thing from this first broadcast or important broadcast.” They were more concerned with moving on to the next big story.
Notagenyus on
This is a very unique and meaningful way to remember your dad.
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And in the far future they needed genetic samples to clone the new human race. Which will now be led by newscasters LOL. Don’t listen to me I have a collection of tickets from movies back to the 1990s 🤘
My dad was in broadcasting, through the 80s and 90s he was likely responsible for the satellite connections for a ton of the live news and sports you watched on TV. He had a very impressive collection of microphone cozies detailing his career displayed prominently in his office. When he moved to a retirement home he culled the collection, these are the ones he held onto. I got them after he passed earlier this year and I just put them up on the shelf.
Some of them have notes from where he got them – the CNN cozy is from the coverage of Hurricane Elena in 1984, the Golf Channel was from their very first live broadcast ever, ESPN was from the first nationally televised Florida State football game (vs Miami), and the NBC Olympics cozy is when they went to Seoul for the 1988 Olympics, and I’m relatively sure the other NBC cozy is from a Thanksgiving Parade.
He was quite an interesting man, and I miss him terribly.
Did he work in the field or just an unusual collector?
I didn’t know collecting these were a “thing”.
That’s cool though.
just walk up during an interview and friggin yoink the thing right off the mic. there, now it’s yours
When I was a radio reporter, we called these “billboards.”
Sorry for your loss friend
This is mildly interesting
Uplink engineer? Probably knew of him. Sorry for your loss.
Do they all smell like smoke and morning breath?
This is so cool. I never realized this was a thing. Thank you for sharing.
Those are genuinely ***very*** interesting. I’d imagine these things got all beat to hell from constant use and when they started to not look so great on camera either had to be re-decaled or simply discarded. It’s also really great that you have definitive provenance behind each of them. Outside of major events (ex: the OKC Bombing memorial has network TV cameras used to film the reporting on the bombing) most networks probably didn’t think to say “keep this thing from this first broadcast or important broadcast.” They were more concerned with moving on to the next big story.
This is a very unique and meaningful way to remember your dad.