Retro; New York City, June 2, 1947

[Bob1370]

Source; New York Times

Stations;

Ch. 2-WCBS-TV (CBS)
Ch. 4-WNBT (NBC, now WNBC)
Ch. 5-WABD (DuMont, now WNYW-Fox)

No shows scheduled this day by WCBS-TV

No morning programming on any station

AFTERNOON

3:30
4-Ken Maynard Rodeo Circus (again at 6:30)

EVENING

6:50
5-Sports News
7:00
5-Smalll Fry Club with Bob Emery (children)
7:30
5-Show Case; This Is Hypnotism, with Marsh Babbitt
8:00
4-Film; Billy The Kid Trapped (Western, 1942); Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Anne Jeffreys
5-Film Shorts
8:45
5-Boxing from Jamaica Arena
9:00
4-Television News with John Cameron Swayze
9:10
4-Feature Film (tiitle not listed)

 

[Gregg]

First, I didn't realize John Cameron Swayze's news on NBC started as far back as 1947.

Second, I would imagine it wasn't easy to broadcast boxing from an arena in Jamaica. I wonder how they got the signal from Queens to Manhattan?


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[oldiesfan6479]

...I would imagine it wasn't easy to broadcast boxing from an arena in Jamaica. I wonder
how they got the signal from Queens to Manhattan?

Aim a microwave dish from the remote site to the ESB.

 

[Bob1370]

Gregg asked, "I wonder how they got the signal from Queens to Manhattan?

Oldiesfan speculated, "Aim a microwave dish from the remote site to the ESB.

That's really close to how they actually did it. The remote trucks used by NBC (and by CBS and DuMont as well) were equipped with early microwave transmitters. They aimed them line-of-sight at network headquarters, which had high rooftop receiving antennas at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (for NBC), the DuMont building in midtown Manhattan, or at CBS HQ on Madison Avenue.