Photo Archive

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 [...]

The radio transmitter room of KPO in Hale’s Department Store is shown. In the foreground at right is the station’s Western Electric 1,000-watt transmitter. In the background are the marble-faced electrical control panels, which were [...]

This equipment includes the amplifier and controls for connecting the station to outside points for remote broadcasting.

This view shows a remote broadcast of a wrestling match on Berkeley’s KRE, taken from a 1938 station promotional folder. None of the people in the photo are identified. The highly polished remote broadcast amplifier [...]

This view of KRE’s Studio “B” at 2337 Shattuck Avenue was taken in 1938.

The KTAB transmitter was located in the steeple tower (fourth floor) of the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church. Chief Engineer R. M. Bitzer is seated at the audio control panel, while his assistant Erroll Peck monitors a [...]