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NBC broadcast schedules from 1951, 1952, 1954 and 1958. This is the best ever guide to see which studios were being used at a time when radio and TV were sharing space at 30 Rock, and looking for studio space around the city. Here are some keys to the Abbreviations here, so you can better…

NBC heralds the first anniversary of being a full-color network, which occurred November 7, 1966.

RCA and NBC outline their early achievements in television. Notice that May 7, 1935 was the day that NBC Studio 3H at Rockefeller Plaza began it’s million dollar conversion to RCA Experimental Television Studio 3H. Read on…there is more treasure here for history buffs.

CBS looks back on 20 years of television innovation in this 18 page review from July 1951…smack dab in the middle of the Color War with RCA/NBC.

NBC’s announcement that the RCA Building’s largest studio would be making the switch to a new medium. This August 11, 1950 memo also mentions that Studios 3A and 3B will have finished conversion by Labor Day of 1950.

NBC takes a look at the many big advances it made in 1948, like increasing the size of the TV network from 4 to 25 stations, introducing Kinescopes and much more.

Press releases and news articles about the construction and expansion of CBS Television City.

A fascinating 27 page report on the CBS color facility in New York, Studio 72, from May of 1955.

A look at how NBC’s radio studios at 711 Fifth Avenue were designed and constructed. Before the move to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in 1933, NBC’s called 711 Fifth Avenue home for five years, although they had custom built this location only 5 years before. While still crowded into their first office and studio location…

A 1942 RCA Review look at the design and construction of NBC’s brand new, twin sixth-floor studios at Radio City. Built for radio, but planned with an eye on the future of television.

A 1949 NBC press release notes the first transmission of a West Coast kinescope to the East Coast.

A 1949 press release notes the debut of NBC’s Los Angeles station.

A rare document looks at the earliest days of the station that NBC bought from AT&T, which we now know WNBC. It was the flagship station in New York, on which the NBC Red Network was based, and later, the NBC Radio Network.

As NBC continued to refine its efforts toward commercial broadcasting’s debut, here’s what its staff had distilled on the subject of studio technique. This was written by NBC’s first studio cameraman, Albert Protzman, and this gives us a first hand account of the lessons learned in NBC Studio 3H, the first home of electronic…

From none other than Vladimir Zworykin, and R. E. Shelby, here is an engineer’s dream come true…a full report on the state of television in 1940. BUT…at the start is a very interesting historical look back on how they got there, which highlights things that Dr. Zworykin believes to be milestones…including the work or…

Fabled NBC Studio 3H proved not to be only a testing ground for the new electronic cameras, but a testing ground for all things television! From scenery to lighting, it all had to be worked out, and 3H was where it was done. Lighting directors had to know television shots, and the close up…

This is TV MEGA HISTORY! In 1935, RCA leaned forward into the development and testing of fully electronic television. The testing had to be done in a real TV studio, but since there were none…it was up to them to design and build the first ever television studio. From 1937, here is the detailed…

Four pages of Operations Sheets from NBC Television’s early days. This is the best ever guide to see which studios were being used at a time when radio and TV were sharing space at 30 Rock, and looking for studio space around the city. Here are some keys to the Abbreviations here, so you…