Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby, the cast of "The Edsel Show," introduce the car to a national audience over CBS. Interestingly, this was the first program to use videotape for west coast playback of a show broadcast live to the east. The technology was so new that CBS also kinescoped the show (i.e. filmed a TV monitor) in case something went wrong. Videotape offered better quality and economy because it could be recorded over and reused, which is why there a...
