RARE NBC OPERATIONS LOGS, 1947
NBC Studios History…ULTRA RARE OPERATIONS LOGS, 1947
These pages were copied at the Library Of Congress a few years back by our friend David Schwartz. These are some of the earliest known program relics of those early post war days when the NBC Television Network was basically then, just New York, Philadelphia and Schenectady.
On the left is what I think is a master control schedule from January 26, 1947. In the center, another master control sheet from December 8, 1947 and on the right, a telecast report from the same day. Notice the famous name at the bottom of the telecast report…Fred Coe. Coe would be the man selected by Pat Weaver to head production of NBC’s dramas and anthology shows, including color spectaculars in later years.
On the January sheet we see action from 3H and film/slides from 5F. On the December sheet in the middle, we see a ‘Gillette Cavalcade of Sports’ remote with boxing from Nicholas Arena slides and both 16 and 35mm film from 5F in Radio City.
As a longtime master control operator, I love seeing this kind of stuff.
(St.) Nicholas Arena would be the site of DuMont’s last network broadcast in August 1956.