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NBC ID used from 1946 to early 60's (1954)

1954 · Television

Synopsis

The NBC network identification used from 1946 to the early 1960s at the start of kinescoped programs, taken from a print of "Your Hit Parade".

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1940s Classic TV, Classic TV

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★★★★★ · A classic kinescope "bumper" · bgrauman · 2009-11-27

This, as noted, appeared at the beginning of virtually every kinescoped "live" program NBC sent to their affiliates who were unable to carry most of the network's live programming at the time they originally aired, usually because of conflicts involving another network's programming (the smaller affiliates in the Midwest and "hinterlands" were often the only station in their broadcast area, and sometimes carried more than one network's programs on their daily schedules)- or the "coaxial cables" carrying live programming were "tied up" among other stations- or, before September 1951, West…