This photo shows Master Control at NBC in San Francisco, used from 1927 to 1942. At the extreme left is the Morse code operator’s position, where the NBC Pacific Division communicated with New York, Chicago […]
This room in the Radio City building was the center for all program recordings. Six transcription lathes were used to make recordings on 16-inch 33-1/3 R.P.M. acetate disks, fifteen minutes to a side. The four […]
While NBC maintained a strict policy of “No Recordings” throughout the 1930s and ’40s, the recording room still saw lots of activity. Some programs originating in New York or Chicago were recorded here to “time […]
Engineer-In-Charge George Greaves trains another engineer on the Master Control panel at Radio City, San Francisco. The operator here determined which studio program was fed to which broadcast phone line on the network. Fourteen different […]
A.H. Saxton, NBC Western Division Engineer, inspects one of the new RCA model 44A ribbon microphones just installed at 111 Sutter Street. The new microphone technology was a giant leap forward in sound reproduction. The […]
The name of the engineer and the location is unknown, but this photo was probably taken at 111 Sutter Street in the mid to late 1930s, judging from the equipment in use. The “VU” meter […]
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