November 15, 1926…The First NBC Radio Broadcast, Part 4
On November 15, 2014
- TV History
November 15, 1926…The First NBC Radio Broadcast, Part 4
Excerpts From The First Broadcast And Amazing Stories
If this page comes up for you the way it does for me, in the upper right hand corner, click to play program 2 with Ben Grauer as our host. Around 2:20, you’ll hear parts of that first broadcast which went out on a network of 26 stations.
I think you’ll enjoy this from the very start. Radio lovers like me will want to hear all five hours of this…it’s just amazing! 50 years of NBC Radio history is packed in and edited to perfection with some of the best storytellers ever. This is Entertainment at it’s best! Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_NBC_50_Years_Of_Radio_Singles
Thanks for the link. Good stuff.
Apparently the “excerpt form the first broadcast’ is a recreation. There is a website with documentation of early surviving broadcasts at http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/earlyradio.html. Here is what it has to say. It discusses the clip from the NBC broadcast in your link.
“Also, no authentic recordings exist of the inaugural NBC broadcast of 11/15/26. Some sequences were recreated for a tenth anniversary special in 1936, including a speech by NBC president Merlin Ayelsworth, and these excerpts have been muddying the waters ever since. It might seem odd that no recording was made, given the early WEAF recordings noted above…but keep in mind that AT&T was no longer involved with the station and saw no need to document its activities any further. RCA, the new owner, had yet to purchase Victor Talking Machine, and thus did not possess recording facilities of its own.”