[78-L] early days of KPRC

[David Lennick]

It definitely does look like a radio studio, but all the more reason it should 
have 3-speed turntables and extra tone arms if it's 1953.

dl

On 2/16/2012 9:10 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> It occurred to me later  that this may be KPRC radio, 950 AM, which was
> housed in the same building as TV until in the 70s, after they had moved
> into their present building. That doesn't affect Mike's observation -
> just an after thought.
>
> joe salerno
>
> On 2/15/2012 9:23 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> On 2/15/2012 10:18 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>
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