|
|
|
 |
|
NBC Commentaries |
Sometime in or around 1974 Shep did a series of short commentaries for NBC
Radio. 4 of those have shown up, but little about them is known.
If you remember
them and can provide additional information as to how many he did,
dates, times, etc. please
email
me.
|
|
Abject Failure
 |
Science Fills
The Gap
|
Slob Art
|
Removing the
Label
|
|
| Joseph P.
Jaslow writes:
In reference to NBC commentaries, here is
everything I know (which isn't much):
The three on your website were recorded off
the air by me in the summer of 1974. They were part of a short series of
what I called "two minute shows" that Shep taped for the NBC radio
network in NYC in 74, which were then broadcast across the country on
many of NBC's FM affiliates. I believe they were only played on FM (I
could be wrong, but that's where I got mine from).
I remember hearing 5 or 6 of them at the
time, but because of NBC's scheduling it was difficult to tell
exactly when one might be played so I just let a reel of tape run on
different days and was lucky enough to capture these three.
But the question remains: How many of these
did Shep make for NBC? Probably not more than a dozen or so in my humble
opinion, since they seemed to vanish from the airwaves as quickly as
they came.It seems as if no other copies exist, but I doubt that. You
just know that somewhere out there in the darkness, some ex-NBC engineer
has a complete set of these on tape, probably hidden away in a basement.
That's where mine were, anyway. Excelsior
|
Marc Spector (Associate Producer for Shep at WOR from 1974 to
1974) writes:I just read your commentary on the NBC Shows.
A couple of comments. First: they did run in 74-75. They
were recorded over on the 5th floor of 30 Rock at the NBC Radio
Network facilities. Jean's producer was a man named Joe
Coggins who was an established News producer and also produced some
of the network's strip shows. The show was broadcast to all
NBC affiliates. In NYC, WNBC would not have taken it because
it was a music station. However, it was NOT limited to FM
stations at all. I do know a couple of the engineers who
recorded it--one of them was Bill Chambers who was the engineer on
Dimension-X and was credited on-air, if you are familiar with the
show. Bill became the dept. head of NBC Radio Recording which
was the group in charge of pre-recorded shows and sat next to the
ROD desk which was in charge of live operations at the network.
In 1975, NBC started a very expensive and doomed project called
'NIS' or News and Information Service. It was a 24/7 news and
features network. Unbelievable in 1975. Anyway, when
they did so, they had to redesign all of the on-air and
recording studios (and the studios where Monitor came from) in order
to support this monolith. I believe this is when Jean stopped
doing the strip show, although I am not 100% sure of this. NIS
went on the air in May, 1975. I was there--interesting stuff.
If so, I can tell you that there were definitely more than a dozen
of them done. How many more, I couldn't tell you. But,
listen to how far ahead of the times they were. Keep in mind
that the other strip shows at the time were: Dr. Joyce Brothers; Joe
Garagiola; David Brinkley and others who were as straight and
mainstream as an arrow. And, then there was Jean. Also:
you can hear that the NBC shows are more scripted than his WOR show.
That's because they were more scripted. Not fully so--but NBC
needed to 'bless' content ahead of time as you can imagine and Jean
needed to present content for general approval. Also: this was a
2-minute (EXACTLY) broadcast. It was good exposure for
Jean--but, I still cannot figure out the match between NBC Radio
Network and Jean. The shows are not my favorite of his work.
|
|
Made in USA
|
 |
Custom Search
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Best deals for Movies |
|
|
|
