Radio Age - 1955, April - 36 Pages, 2.8 MB, .PDF - VacuumTubeEra

oadcasting Service of RCA Communications carried
John Rich's Korean War stories to U. S. listeners.
key point in world-wide broadcast service is this control
console at RCA Communications in New York.
rst-hand reports on L). S. political conventions, as shown
sre, go to overseas listeners via RCA Communications.
program looks something like this:
From Rome — Jack Begon
655am to 715am air time 701 — 703am
From Bonn — Robert McCormick
655am to 715am air time 704 — 705:30am
From Paris — Frank Bourgholtzer
655am to 715am air time 707 — 709am
From Cairo — Wilson Hall
700am to 715am air time 709:30 — 711am
From Telaviv — Al Rosenfeld
705am to 715am air time 712 — 714am
Arrangements are made by NBC to have its foreign
commentators available and prepared at the exact time
allotted for the broadcast. RCA, meanwhile, has advised
the overseas radio terminal of the ordered programs
and what frequencies will be required for the
contact.
Usually all points are lined up and ready fifteen
minutes prior to the beginning of the network programs.
Time checks and cues have been exchanged and final
adjustments made to transmitters and receivers.
Transmissions on die
On cue, usually Dave Garroway's, "Go ahead, Rome",
the commentators, in order, begin their transmissions.
From the studios of Italradio on Rome's Via Callabria,
Jack Begon's voice hurdles the Atlantic to be picked
up by a short-wave receiver at RCA's Riverhead, L. I.
station, then journeys to the lower Manhattan control
center by micro-wave relay. There it is amplified,
monitored, and fed by wire lines to NBC master control
at Rockefeller Plaza — then one last jump, again by
wire, to the "TODAY" studio in the RCA Exhibition
Hall before its final re-transmission as the audio segment
of Garroway's morning TV program.
Pacific Operations
At San Francisco, RCA Communications maintains
a duplicate of its New York program facilities for coverage
of the Pacific and the Orient. International programs
received at this terminal are fed into the national networks
through their West Coast stations. Conversely
the San Francisco terminal also links American broadcasters
with their affiliated stations in Honolulu. Network
programs originating in the United States are thus regularly
transmitted to Hawaii.
Including coverage of the original A-Bomb tests in
much in the way of unusual hook-ups
Bikini, there isn't
that RCA's Program Service hasn't tried during its few
decades of operation. Of all its accomplishments, it
biggest contribution has been its ability to provide the
intercontinental electronic bridges which probably have
helped more than any other single factor to bring about
the international awareness and understanding that exists
in much of the world today.
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