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The Blue Network was the on-air name of a former American radio network, which broadcast from 1927 through 1945.
NBC networks, 1933
Advertisement placed by the Enna Jettick Shoe Company promoting the appearance of Sir Harry Lauder on its NBC Blue program, December 1, 1929. Note that the text implies that the NBC Blue, NBC Orange (West Coast) and NBC Red networks were all participating in the broadcast.
Advertisement advertising the debut of the Lux Radio Theatre, which had a brief run on NBC Blue in 1934–35 before moving for a long run on CBS.
This 1944 advertisement for KATE in Albert Lea, Minnesota, while it dates from after the sale by NBC of the Blue Network, shows how the Blue Network continued to have access to NBC facilities; in this case, the famed radio studios at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
ABC is an American commercial broadcasting television network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company.
Blue Network
…NBC), the independent Blue Network was born of a divestiture in 1942, arising from antitrust litigation. In 1945, the Blue Network formally became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The Blue Network dates to 1923, when the Radio Corporation of America acquired WJZ in Newark, New Jersey, from Westinghouse, which had established…
Entrance of ABC's headquarters at 77 West 66th Street
WABC-TV buildings at 147–155 Columbus Avenue and behind 157 Columbus Avenue
ABC facilities in the former First Battery Armory of the New York National Guard