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NBC Transmitter
KPO A CENTER OF WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DURING UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE
S'ln Francisco's W ar Memorial Opera House, scene of the plenary sessions of the United .\ations Conference on International Organization. In a tidn edifice— the Veteran s War Memorial Building— working sessions of the conference uere held and radio and press headquarters located.
.4 typical daily scene at \BC's headquarters, left to right: Grace Foote, secretary; KG If Commentator Dick Rand; NBC Scriptwriter William Ratigan ; Commentator Elmer W. Peterson; Francis C. McCall, coordinator of NBC coverage; KPO Engineer George Greaves and Commentator Richard Harkness.
NBC commentators sign the roster, 1. to r.: Graeme Fletcher, H. f . Kaltenborn, Fleetwood Lawton, .ilex Dreier and Richard Harkness.
SAN FRANCISCO. KPO became a center for world communications during the United Nations conference.
From improvised studios in the Veterans Building from a NBC box at the opera house and from NBC-KPO studios at 420 Taylor Street, a running story of the conference hour by hour was flashed to every corner of the world. Top-rank newsmen of NBC covered that story for listeners all over the country and — by shortwave— for the entire globe.
NBC also supplied lines, microphones and studios to affiliated stations and to representatives of BBC, CBC and the Australian Broadcasting Company. In addition NBC engineers designed and constructed improvised studios in “radio row” of the Veterans Building for other major networks and independent stations.
Over the NBC network went a contiuuous stream of expert analysis of each day’s happenings. Interviews of men and women of many nations by H. V. Kaltenborn. Richard Harkness, Robert St. John. Elmer Peterson. Alex Dreier. Larry .Smith. Fleetwood Lawton, Wilson K. Foster. Graeme Fletcher and Ben Grauer, were highlighted.
List of conference participants heard over NBC reads like the official roster: Anthony Eden. George Bidault. V. M. Molotov. Dr. Soong. Jan Masaryk. Clement Attlee. Loudon of Netherlands, Secretary of Jstate Stettinius. Dean Gildersleeve and Commander Stassen are just a few of those heard.
Moved to San Francisco for the conference. “Our Foreign Policy.” “Chicago Round Table.” “Religion in the News” and “Pacific Story” brought many sided views of the gathering.
One of the most impressive broadcasts in NBC listeners’ memories undoubtedly is the brilliant, dramatic and poignant picture of the opening day’s session, painted bv the voices of Kaltenborn. Harkness. Grauer and others. Another is V-E Da\ when from dawn to midnight the San Francisco scene ^^■as cast into still sharper focus as the voices of President Truman, of the Ambassadors of France. Belgium. Netherlands. Norway. Luxembourg, and Czechoslovakia, of Molotov and of other leaders, drove home the sober, unexultant message of a victory bought at a terrible price, with the peace yet to be won.