page_title: Electrical transcription
hierarchical_section_title: Electrical transcription
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of an electrical transcription disk carrying the Orson Welles War of the Worlds broadcast. Note that this is a "dubbed" copy created ten years after the original broadcast.
context_page_description: Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting, which were widely used during the "Golden Age of Radio". They provided material—from station-identification jingles and commercials to full-length programs—for use by local stations, which were affiliates of one of the radio networks.
  Physically, electrical transcriptions look much like long-playing records that were popular for decades. They differ from consumer-oriented recordings, however, in that they were "distributed to radio stations for the purpose of broadcast, and not for sale to the public. The ET had higher quality audio than was available on consumer records" largely because they had less surface noise than commercial recordings.
context_section_description: Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting, which were widely used during the "Golden Age of Radio". They provided material—from station-identification jingles and commercials to full-length programs—for use by local stations, which were affiliates of one of the radio networks.
  Physically, electrical transcriptions look much like long-playing records that were popular for decades. They differ from consumer-oriented recordings, however, in that they were "distributed to radio stations for the purpose of broadcast, and not for sale to the public. The ET had higher quality audio than was available on consumer records" largely because they had less surface noise than commercial recordings.
caption: Electrical transcription disc of The War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles with this "dubbed" copy created ten years after the original broadcast
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