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The Hotel Lines

Broadcast · 1923 · Seasonal

Hotel and ballroom remotes

Hotel and ballroom remotes · 1923–1963

Broadcasts

267

Cadence

Seasonal

Rated

PG

Since

1923

The run

Network
Hotel and ballroom remotes
Years active
1923–1963
Surviving broadcasts
267
Genre
music

Remote pickups from hotel ballrooms, roof gardens and supper clubs — the band playing to the room in front of it while a network line carried the night out to the country. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, shelved as the source items describe them.

Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: BigBandRemotes

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 41 years on the air, with 41 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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