[78-L] Story of the LP

[Mark Durenberger]

There was also an "ABS" network

See http://www.durenberger.com/resources/NETWORKS.htm

Regards,

Mark Durenberger


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Story of the LP


> DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>> > If a company called "Harry's Moving Vans" had
>> > HMV on the side, nobody would stop them. 
> 
> From: Michael Shoshani <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>
>> Indeed, The National Biscuit Company (now Nabisco) was NBC
>> for at least a decade, maybe two, before the National
>> Broadcasting Company was formed. MS
> 
> There have been at least three different ABC broadcasters.  Right now
> there is one in America and another in Australia.  Back in the mid-30s,
> when the current American ABC was NBC Blue, there was another American
> Broadcasting Company which evolved from the shortlived American
> Broadcasting System which had evolved from the American Broadcasting
> System.  Amalgamated was founded by Ed Wynn and the flagship station was
> WBNX, the next ABS was flagshipped on WMCA, while the ABC was
> flagshipped on WNEW.  And CBS was flagshipped on WABC in those days.
> Confused?  Some people still believe that Amalgamated was on WNEW and
> that the EW in those calls stand for Ed Wynn.  But WNEW was not formed
> until the year after Amalgamated was already dead, and all the research
> and the actual recordings of the inaugural broadcast prove it was WBNX. 
>  
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
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