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DECEMBER. 1940
9
PARTY
commentators and announcers seated in the two specially constructed studios on the stage, one tor the Red and one for the Blue Network.
The latest returns were flashed from coast to coast by Raymond Clapper, John B. Kennedy, and George Hicks for the Blue Network listeners while Earl Godwin, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Graham McNamee covered the Red Network with a running commentary of the election returns.
With an expert staff of more than fifty, the whole exciting story of the 1940 presidential election was unfolded to listening millions by more than 200 stations of NBC with the two short wave stations, WRCA and WNBI. Four studios filled with every imaginable delicacy cheered the palates of those whose political hopes might be uncertain and helped the winners to celebrate.
Upstairs on the ninth floor outside the balcony, where there was not one seat available and very little standing room, a large number of the guests crowded around the eight or ten television receivers placed informally in the corridor. All the excitement and drama of the election was covered by the television camera as well as the radio mike. The famous commentators and news analysts all contributed a few remarks at least to the first election ever to be televised.
Again looking from top to bottom — over the shoulders of Frank Mullin and Roy Durstine we can see the newsreel cameras getting long shots from the balcony of 8H ; Graham McNamee and Raymond Clapper joined many other famous radio voices in presenting the trend of votes; Earl Godwin and Leo Rosenberg, the first radio announcer, as they appeared on Television screens; guests enjoying the tempting varieties of one of the buffet-studios; Dr. Black, Dr. Morton, and Mrs. Black look up to see the newest entry on the huge returns chart; and finally Mr. Almonte smiles a gracious greeting to the festivities.