[BC] question for you engineers

[Tom]

Probably remote studio links... Class A (5kHz) equalized lines or better 
from an affiliate with an auditorium.  The original AM 1310 in 
Indianapolis, with studios in the Riddick Building - W I S H - had such 
a facility; the studios for radio became the TV studios when TV came 
along. 

Tom S.

Donna Halper wrote:
> At 11:51 PM 12/31/2007, you wrote:
>
>> >When a phone call leaves the local exchange for
>> >other exchanges, it's split into separate transmit and receive paths.
>>
>> A standard channel (1/24 th of a T-1) provides a 64 kbps transmit path
>> and a 64 kbps receive path, the same bandwidth in both directions.
>
> Would that have been the state of the art back in the late 1930s?  As 
> I understand it, affiliates of NBC had fans of the program (America's 
> Town Meeting of the Air) come to the studios to listen as a group.  
> Usually, they just listened and enjoyed the show, with a local 
> facilitator to discuss things with.  But sometimes, the show's 
> moderator in NY would have a listener's fan letter read on the air, 
> and from what I was told, the fan him or herself got to read it. I was 
> just trying to figure out how, because the one transcribed show I 
> heard, it sounded like pretty good quality for a phone line, assuming 
> it was done via telephone.
>
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