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Max Dolin was the first Music Director at the NBC Pacific Coast Network in
San Francisco. In addition to conducting the NBC Orchestra
and Opera Company,
his violin was heard on such programs as the "Shell Happy Time
Program" and "Don Amaizo, the Golden Violinist".
Excerpted from "The NBC Pacific Coast Network" The inaugural program for the NBC Orange Network was
held April 5, 1927, less than five months after the first NBC broadcast in
New York. The program originated from temporary studios in the Colonial
Ballroom of the St. Francis Hotel, as permanent studios in the new
Hunter-Dulin Building were not yet ready
for occupancy. The program opened with an address by Henry M. Robinson,
the Pacific Coast member of the NBC Advisory Board and president of the
First National Bank of Los Angeles. Robinson spoke from the studios of KFI
in Los Angeles. The program was then turned over to San Francisco for the
broadcasts of music by Alfred Hertz and the San Francisco Symphony, and by
Max Dolin, the newly-appointed West Coast music director, conducting the
National Broadcasting Opera Company.
By John F. Schneider
