Re: [ARSCLIST] 16" transcription player on ebay

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henkle" <henkle@xxxxxxxxx>
>     What was their purpose, radio play only, or something else?
>     Why were they made in 16" instead of 12" or 10"?
>     What years were they made?
>     What format were transcriptions made in before and after the 16" LP
format?
>
1) Essentially, for radio play, since one side recorded at 33-1/3 rpm could
accomadate a half-hour show.

2) "Transcriptions" first appeared as 12" 78's, which required complicated
engineering to be broadcast as a 15 or 30-minue program. Apparently, Columbia
first introduced the 33-1/3 speed...which allowed a two-sided disc to carry
the soundtrack for a movie short or cartoon.

3) c.1931-2 well into the sixties, if not later.

4) Before...12" 78rpm records. After...various forms of magnetic tape, which
were mailed to stations who wished to broadcast the show in question.

...stevenc