From: damian@wshb.csms.com (Damian Centgraf - WSHB Engineer)
Subject: NBC Red & Blue Networks
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: WSHB, Herald Broadcasting Syn., Inc., Cypress Creek, SC, USA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:41:56 GMT


Harris, That's the last time I post something in the middle of the night,
being a little tired I didn't double check my posting <sigh>.  My original
post was .....wrong!!!<argh>... Both Bob and Scott were correct. |->
The following was take from a book on radio and television... I don't remember
the title as I originally posted the information below from my machine at
home.
if you are interested I can get you the title and author.  I do remember that
it was published in 1971... the only reason I remember that is that it really

made me feel old. 8-<
	Hope this clears up my mistake...

Harris Boldt Edelman <red-eft!hbe@valley.west.sun.com> writes:
> Recently Damian Centgraf mentioned that the old NBC Red Network became ABC.
> Scott Fybush and Bob Carpenter both wrote that this was wrong, that it was
> the Blue Network that became ABC.
>
Stuff left out...
> I did some extensive reading some thirty-odd years ago on the history of
> broadcasting in the U.S.  All sources I encountered at the time related
> that the Blue Network had remained NBC, while the spun-off Red Network
> became ABC.
>

> -Harris  <red-eft!hbe@valley.west.sun.com>

The National Broadcasting Company
        RCA was trying to make a network of their own.  Despite the
oposition from AT&T, who refused to furnish telephone lines to RCA for
use by a competing network.  RCA was forced to use inferior telegraph
lines to ntework.  In 1925 AT&T was able to broadcast the presidential
inauguration with 22 stations coast to coast RCA was only able to 
link up 4 east coast stations.
        In 1926 AT&T decieded to withdraw from radio broadcasting entirely
and sold WEAF to RCA for $1 million and transfered most of its radio 
properties to the "Radio Group" made up of RCA Westinghouse, & GE.
These transactions made it possible for the sale of radio time by the 
"Radio Group" after which AT&T agreed to make its telephone lines available
to RCA.
        On September 9, 1926 RCA formed the National Broadcasting Company,
to take over all network broadcasting business as a subsidary of RCA.  In
November of 1926 NBC started regular broadcast over a group stations that
became know as the NBC Red Network.  In January of 1927 it connected a 
second group of stations which became know as the NBC Blue network.  At this 
point RCA controlled the only two networks in the country.  In 1943 the
government ordered RCA to sell it's second network.  The sell of this 
network was to the American Broadcasting company.

The American Broadcasting Company
        In 1945 ABC came to be after the purchase of the NBC Blue Network.
in 1953 ABC merged with United Paramount Theathers, Inc., which formed 
Amercan Broadcasting-Parmount Theaters, Inc, aka American Broadcasting 
Companies, Inc.
        Somewhere in the 1980's it was purchased by Capital cites... as
the exact details I'm unsure.


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