[78-L] early days of KPRC

[Mark D Mobile]

Those are RCA turntables and the arm has a 3-mil cartridge, which makes it 
pre-1947 or so...unless all they used the 'tables for was to play 3-mil-cut 
commercials.

Mark Durenberger

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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:45 AM
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] early days of KPRC

> 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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