17 November 1957 · CBS affiliate, Albany, New York

WROW Albany, 17 November 1957

One evening of American radio, recorded off the air as it happened.

Series recordings tell you what a programme was. An aircheck tells you what radio was — the joins, the local car dealer, the announcer filling ten seconds, the way one show gave way to the next. This is a single evening in 1957, when the networks were emptying and the schedule was already half local, captured by somebody with a tape recorder for no reason except that it was on.

On radio

A single evening, recorded off air

On television

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The overlap

Network drama, local advertising and station identification, exactly as transmitted

1 recording · Albany

Off-air recording of WROW Albany, 17 November 1957, held by the Internet Archive. Unedited. Public domain (US network broadcast, copyright not renewed); no Creative Commons or non-commercial terms apply.