[78-L] early days of KPRC

[David Lennick]

Well, at least pre-1948. I don't know how quickly radio stations began to adapt 
to play lps. Convenience aside, the quality was pretty rotten on many of the 
early ones.

dl

On 2/16/2012 3:38 PM, Mark D Mobile wrote:
> 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
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> 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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