[78-L] Tape masters for syndicated radio

[David Lennick]

On 11/14/2010 8:51 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>
>> I've been listening to the Michael Shayne series produced in 1948 by the
>> Broadcasters Guild, and these are definitely from tape masters. Edits and
>> sudden level changes are evident, as well as some very abrupt music "fades".
>
> It is more likely that these are symptoms of disc editing than tape
> editing.

If you heard these, you'd agree they're far too tight to be disc edits. Also, 
one thing I forgot to mention was the "dead grooves" at the end of one 
side..instead of being silent, they contain about 30 seconds of part of the 
next segment of the program. Definitely sound to me as if a tape was rolling.

Gotta run, Boardwalk Empire is about to start.
dl
>
>> Per dates scrawled on the labels, these began running in April 1948 at the
>> latest. We know about Bing Crosby using tape, but when did other production
>> studios and mastering facilities start? The discs are all cut and pressed by
>> RCA, except for the pilot which was done at Radio Recorders.
>
> ABC set up a tape room in Chicago for daylight saving time delays in the
> spring of 1948 using Stancil-Hoffman machines.  These were not available
> for individual program use.  The Crosby programs were not aired directly
> from tape until the May 48 Daylight Saving Time delays put the machines
> in use.  The edited tapes were dubbed to disc and aired from the disc
> from the fall of 47 until then.  The first year of the program, 46-47,
> was disc edited.  Mutual did not use tape for Daylight Saving delays
> until 1950 and NBC still used disc for that.  It was in Jan 49 that NBC
> and CBS started allowing general pre-recording of programs on any
> medium, tape or disc.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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