Title of post should be "NBC TV/Radio Test of "Stereo" in the mid 50's
Does anybody recall this? It would have been sometime around 1956. The gimmick was you were to tune your TV and radio to the local NBC affiliates, separate them on opposite sides of the room, and they would broadcast the entire prime time in "stereo," TV being one channel and radio the other. I faintly recall one of the programs that night being some situation comedy with a scene involving a good bit of walking back and forth, from one side of the stage to the other. Was it a promotion of "stereo" recordings coming out of RCA? It would have been one of the evenings when the programming was all "live," I suppose.
Can someone help me date this?
Well, found it myself on Wikipedia --
NBC Television and the NBC Radio Network offered stereo sound for two three-minute segments of The George Gobel Show on October 21, 1958.
Does anybody recall this? It would have been sometime around 1956. The gimmick was you were to tune your TV and radio to the local NBC affiliates, separate them on opposite sides of the room, and they would broadcast the entire prime time in "stereo," TV being one channel and radio the other. I faintly recall one of the programs that night being some situation comedy with a scene involving a good bit of walking back and forth, from one side of the stage to the other. Was it a promotion of "stereo" recordings coming out of RCA? It would have been one of the evenings when the programming was all "live," I suppose.
Can someone help me date this?
Well, found it myself on Wikipedia --
NBC Television and the NBC Radio Network offered stereo sound for two three-minute segments of The George Gobel Show on October 21, 1958.
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