[78-L] early days of KPRC

[David Lennick]

On 2/15/2012 10:18 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
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> On 2/15/2012 8:53 PM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
>> http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2012/02/batch-of-photos-shows-early-days-at-kprc/#3072-1
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>> These photos turned up recently, KPRC TV (NBC affiliate) in 1954. 14 pix
>> in a slide show. About #13 you see a shot of the control room with 2 ET
>> tables. The aerial photos won't mean as much to someone who is not from
>> this area.
>
> They say the studio shots were from 1953.  I certainly hope they are at
> least 5 years older.  The turntables are RCA 70-D's with only the
> wide-groove 28 gram arm that can only be used for 78s or ETs.  Surely if
> this was a new studio they would have had the microgroove ton arm
> installed and probably also the 45 RPM adapter
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

Unless for some reason they would use only transcriptions and music library 
recordings..?

dl