Question on "SCTV News" Microphone

[W.B.]

This has been a question that bothered me, and though it's not necessarily TV-related, it is in the sense that it appeared on-camera in "SCTV News" sketches in the first three seasons at least of Second City TV. A few clips with this microphone (as on the news anchor desk) can be seen on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfd8pQ6xbfk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJEZ6G1oszQ (around the 1:13 mark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ylVLWJ6PJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv0M3i4EVBA

The question is: Would anyone know which brand and make this mic is?

[newhallone]

I do not know but for fun I will guess Sony.

[old_tv_nut]

looks like an RCA ribbon cardioid (unidirectional)

http://www.coutant.org/rcabk5/index.html

[alespn]

The mike is an RCA BK-5 Ribbon Microphone. Primarily unidirectional. It was also used on mike booms in the '60s.

[W.B.]

Probably the BK-5B version, based on the fact that Global TV (where the first two seasons of SCTV were produced) first started in 1974.