[78-L] stereo, ca. 1932

[Jeff Sultanof]

Wasn't the Mitch Miller TV show also broadcast in stereo, with one channel
from the TV broadcast, and the other from a radio station?

Jeff Sultanof

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> Steven C. Barr wrote:
> >> I can recall (I think 1959 or 1960) hearing a local (Peoria)
> >> "stereo"  program broadcast by a station which had both an
> >> AM and FM service; they broadcast one channel on AM and one on FM!
>
> By the late 50s the use of two radio stations for stereo became so
> common that manufacturers made tuners with separate AM and FM sections
> that could be operated simultaneously for stereo.  My brother-in-law in
> Birmingham built the one that HeathKit produced, and I even borrowed it
> for a time.  I have a mono recording of the first stereo episode of The
> Northerners in 1953 on WMAQ radio in Chicago where they describe how to
> listen to it.  I wouldn't be surprised if there is a stereo tape of it
> in the Burt Whyte collection.  In NYC we had a nightly program on WNBC
> in stereo at 10 PM called "Jazz, Voices, and Strings."
>
> From: "joe at salerno.com" <jsalerno at earthlink.net>
> > I recall an attempt to do something similar, but it was
> > a TV station, one channel on TV and the other on AM radio.
> > By placing a portable radio in the same room with the TV
> > you could make stereo.   joe salerno
>
> The full 1955-56 season of Lawrence Welk's Dodge TV show was broadcast
> in stereo on ABC-TV and radio.  In NYC in 56 there was Art Ford's local
> jazz program in stereo on Channel 5 and WNEW radio.  In the fall of 1958
> there was a special George Gobel program on NBC-TV promoting RCA Victor
> stereo and color.  In addition to the stereo audio there was a fold-out
> in TV Guide that week that showed the layout they planned for one of the
> commercials which you could put over the lower half of your TV screen
> and see what you were missing if you only had a B&W TV.  Of course if
> you had a color set you could see how screwed up the colors were on your
> set!  And in 1959 there was a special 90 minute episode of Disneyland on
> ABC-TV in three channel stereo (using both your ABC AM and FM
> affiliates).  It was the life of Tchaikowski as a promotion for the
> release of the Disney cartoon of Sleeping Beauty.
>
> A slight correction to Joe's earlier posting about the 1932 Bell Labs
> stereo recordings of Stokowski.  THey are not of broadcasts.  Bell Labs
> was recording during most of the concerts and rehearsals that year.  The
> radio broadcasts were in mono.
>
> Another correction to the two articles about those stereo recordings.
> They claim that the April recording is the earliest stereo musical
> stereo recording in existence.  The Ellington program transcriptions in
> accidental stereo are earlier, Feb 3 and 9, 1932, and it is believed
> that Victor and HMV were doing this occasionally for 4 or 5 years.
> Also, Arthur Keller of Bell Labs was doing experiments in purposeful
> stereo recording at the Capitol Theatre in 27 or 28 but the masters are
> somehow missing.
>
> From: "Mark Durenberger" <Mark4 at durenberger.com>
> >>> In 1925, radio station WBAJ in New Haven Connecticut began
> >>> experimenting with AM Stereo.using two frequencies fed by
> >>> two microphones in the music studio.   Also see:
> >>>
> http://www.durenberger.com/resources/documents/MULTI-CHANNELRADIO0822.pdf
>
> This 1922 Radio News article is fascinating, but even this proposal was
> predated by an actual demonstration of stereo telephones in Paris in
> 1888!
>
> Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
>
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