Phil Scott

Submitted by Phil's son, Vance

Phil Scott, a 23-year CBS employee, passed away on May 30th, 2003, from complications resulting from colon cancer surgery. He was 76 years old.

Phil began his career at CBS in 1952 as an usher on the old Lux Radio Theatre broadcast from the Columbia Square studios.  

Soon, the coming age of television created a critical need for engineers and technicians and since these positions paid much better than the usher jobs, Phil entered the engineering field.  Phil first worked as a cameraman in the old Vine Street studio (remember Panorama Pacific with Red Rowe?  Grant Holcomb doing the morning Farm Report?) 

In 1960, Phil joined the pioneering team of CBS engineers and technicians that enterprised the first live coverage of a Winter Olympics games at Squaw Valley, California (anyone remember the agony of hauling 100,000 feet of cable to the top of KT-22?)

Phil was also a camera operator on some of the epic live television shows at Television City, including his personal favorite, Playhouse 90.  He returned to KNXT in the mid-60's when the station moved into the Columbia Square facility and continued to work there until leaving CBS a decade later to pursue a successful second career in private law practice.  Up until the end, Phil remained especially close to his CBS 'family' and was always a familiar face at the annual CBS reunion.

Aud.  Let me know if these pix were received.  If they were, the top right pic on # 1 is of me and Walter Cronkite who was the anchor for our coverage.  On page # 2, the young couple in the pic with me were the Canadian pairs figure skating gold medalists. The other pix speak for themselves.  The cauldron, etc. was a helluva lot less impressive than now but we thought they were pretty special at the time.  Phil