[78-L] NBC (was: YOU)

[Michael Shoshani]

On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 00:03 -0400, Sammy Jones wrote:

> 
> Most of the chimes heard in these programs sound like the hand-struck
> versions, but occasionally the Rangertones are heard.

Correct. The reason for that is that NBC's West Coast operations
(including Rangertones) were actually in San Francisco from 1926 until
1941-ish. NBC built a "Radio City" facility in Hollywood, complete with
Rangertones and full network feed, in 1937, but until then NBC's only
Hollywood studio presence was a building on Melrose Avenue that would
later house Capitol Records until their famous structure at Hollywood &
Vine went into service.

Those Hollywood broadcasts, from around 1932 or 33 until the Radio City
facility went into operation in 1937, bypassed the San Francisco complex
completely due to the one-way nature of the network setup - in which
Hollywood was on the very last receiving leg, but could not send.
Instead, programs originating in Hollywood were sent on their own wire
directly to NBC's Chicago switching facility, where they were fed to the
rest of the coast-to-coast network. 

Because Hollywood was not an official NBC origin point at that time, the
announcers for programs originating in Hollywood continued to use
hand-struck Deagan chimes rather than the expensive Rangertone machines.