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Behind Your Radio Dial: The Story of NBC

1947/24 min 4 sec/104 shots

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This 1947 NBC promotional film tours the network’s radio and emerging television operations at Rockefeller Center, showing master control, news gathering, program scheduling, rehearsals, music production, audience research, archives, and transmission facilities while recounting NBC’s growth into a national network.

Provenance and rights

Original producer: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Collection: Prelinger Archives
Original title: Behind Your Radio Dial: The Story of NBC
Date: 1947-06-26T00:00:00Z
Original link: Open on Internet Archive
Rights: public_domain

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