WXYZ: Engineering, Camera, Audio. Died in 1994.
Rex was one of the earliest employees during the creation of WXYZ.
- Early Productions at WXYZ
BOOM LOWERS microphone over performers. Rex Clark holds the camera on them while Chuck Wilson dangles “mike.”
The Detroit Free Press – May 3, 1952 – Page 24
I recall my earliest days (1975) at WXYZ, working boom mic on a children’s show named “Daedal Doors.” One of the camera operators assigned to that show was Rex Clark (I’m fairly certain I got his last name right). He was part of that earliest “Greatest Generation” crop of wartime returnees as WXYZ went on-air from the Maccabees Building in the Wayne State campus area of Detroit. The station eventually moved it’s studios to “Broadcast House” in suburban Southfield, and that’s where I met all the first-gen engineering hires made by then Chief Engineer Charles (Charlie) Kocher. I hope you can induct Rex Clark into that “pantheon of originals” who started it all at WXYZ-TV. He deserves the recognition (even it turns out to be posthumous).
– Steve Lawrence
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