NBC ‘The Doctors’, Photo 2 of 3

Sorry I forgot this subject yesterday, but here we are back in Studio 3B again with more great Bob Batsche photos from early 1969. This is ‘The Doctors’ lab set and in the foreground, a beautiful shot of an RCA TK41 with yet another Fred Himelfarb modification. Notice the metal baffle on the door…it’s over the side exhaust vent, but why? As we saw in ‘The Match Game’ photos, many times several camera are bunched up right next to the announcers position. As we have learned before, the top wedge shaped baffle is to hide the fan noise from the overhead boom mics…this side baffle diffuses the rear fan noise from the announcer’s stand mounted mic which is just about at this level.

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