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NBC Radio City Architectural Drawings (undated)
Some of the architect’s renderings and a scale model of the new NBC Radio City studio building at 420 Taylor Street (corner of O’Farrell), circa 1940.
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Staff of the Doug Pledger Show Circa 1950s
The staff that produced the Doug Pledger Show on KNBC Radio (680 AM in San Francisco) in the 1950s. Seated, left to right: Clarence Leisure, announcer; Doug Pledger, program host; John Grover, announcer. Standing, left to […]
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KPO Becomes KNBC “Hail and Farewell” Live Broadcast Ticket
Sunday, November 23, 1947 This is a ticket to the live “Hail and Farewell” broadcast in 1947, during which KPO changed its call letters to KNBC. The hour-long extravaganza was hosted by Hal Wolfe from […]
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NBC Radio City Master Control
George Greaves and Lee Kolm San Francisco, December 1944 This is a view of the Master Control Room at NBC’s Radio City in San Francisco, December, 1944. Standing: George Greaves, engineer-in-charge of NBC San Francisco. […]
History
NBC Radio Networks 1935 and 1937
National Broadcasting Co. NBC Radio Network 1935 and 1937 RED, BLUE AND ORANGE NETWORKS 1935 In 1935, all of NBC’s phone company West Coast broadcast lines originated and terminated in San Francisco. This made San […]
History
NBC Radio City (San Francisco)
NBC Radio City, San Francisco Taylor & O’Farrell Streets May 1942 A million-dollar, modern, streamlined and air-conditioned building, literally the most perfect broadcasting plant devised by the hands of Radio Industry’s miracle engineers, making possible […]