The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
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1928–1956 on radio · NBC, then ABC
The Voice of Firestone
The first great simulcast: one orchestra, one performance, two transmitters.
Firestone is the textbook case and the reason this shelf exists. The concert began on NBC radio at Christmas 1928 and ran without interruption for twenty-eight years; on 5 September 1949 NBC pointed a camera at it and started transmitting the same performance on both networks simultaneously. Nothing was remade, nothing was adapted — one orchestra played once and two audiences received it. What survives here is from just before that moment, the Armed Forces Radio Service transcriptions of the mid-forties, which is to say the sound of the programme in the last years when radio was the only thing it was.
- On radio
- Radio from 24 December 1928
- On television
- Television from 5 September 1949
- The overlap
- Simulcast on NBC radio and television for six years, then on ABC to 1959
40 recordings · New York
AFRS transcription discs of Firestone broadcasts, 1943–1946, transferred by the Internet Archive. These predate the television simulcast: this is the programme in its radio-only years, shortly before the cameras arrived. Public domain (US network broadcast, copyright not renewed); no Creative Commons or non-commercial terms apply.
19436
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
194412
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19454
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19462
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19511
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19531
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Undated recordings14
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The Voice of Firestone, NBC, then ABC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.