“Radio doesn’t grab you like TV,” says NBC’s President Sylvester L. (“Pat”) Weaver. “It’s more like a companion.” It’s as a companion that Weaver wants to use it—to get back an audience which NBC ...
The NBC Red Network is a defunct American radio network. Launched in 1926, it, along with the NBC Blue Network, were the two original radio networks of the National Broadcasting Company, and the first ...
A manga-style graphic proclaims “NBC will give you a radio” to promote the station’s distribution of wide FM-capable receivers in the wake of its suspending AM broadcasts. (Courtesy of NBC Radio) NBC ...
ABN Old Time Radio takes amateur OTR playout to a standard worthy of NBC back in radio’s Golden Days. The show, produced by Antioch Broadcasting Network, runs on a fully automated 24/7 schedule, with ...
NBC President Niles Trammell had a job of explaining to do. In recent months, CBS had charmed away five of his top attractions (Jack Benny, Amos ‘n’ Andy, Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra, Edgar Bergen), ...