This is a pre-filmed station ID for WNBT Channel 1, New York, which is now WNBC Channel 4. The ID dates from between 1943 and 1946. The antenna depicted atop the Empire State Building in the ID is the 1939-1946 WNBT television antenna, replaced in 1946 and replaced again in 1951 with the tall tower for all of the New York stations as mandated by the FCC (NBC had an exclusive on the Empire by the FCC busted it so that New Yorkers could get a clear picture from one direction for home antennas.
This is a pre-filmed station ID for WNBT Channel 1, New York, which is now WNBC Channel 4. The ID dates from between 1943 and 1946. The antenna depicted atop the Empire State Building in the ID is the 1939-1946 WNBT television antenna, replaced in 1946 and replaced again in 1951 with the tall tower for all of the New York stations as mandated by the FCC (NBC had an exclusive on the Empire by the FCC busted it so that New Yorkers could get a clear picture from one direction for home antennas.
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