Andrew C. Love ''(né'' Andrew Christen Andersen Love; October 23, 1894

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– December 14, 1987

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) was an

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executive on the

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who worked in multiple roles, mainly as Director of Continuity Acceptance Editing for NBC Radio's Western Division, but also as national radio broadcast producer and director.

Career

Early career

Before 1914, Love had worked for the Columbia Graphophone Company in

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, selling

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s. In 1914, he became manager of the talking machine department of Kohler & Chase in

, succeeding Harry Welles Dawley (1883–1963), who resigned a short time earlier. In 1918, Love enlisted in the U.S. Army. After being honorably discharged from the Army, Love worked for the San Francisco branch of the Columbia Graphophone Company until 1920, after which, he continued with Columbia, covering territory in the

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NBC Radio, San Francisco

Beginning around 1930, during radio's

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in America, Love began working for NBC Radio at its West Coast studio center in

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. From 1935 to 1937, he was Director of Continuity Acceptance Editing for

in San Francisco. Continuity acceptance editing, essentially, was a form of censoring that covered inappropriate violence, sex, and humor – as well as accuracy, good taste, copyright compliance, quality, and compliance with Federal, state, and local laws. In broadcast radio, the field emerged in the 1930s. By the mid-1930s, all four major networks, NBC, CBS,

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, and Mutual had national directors and regional managers. Love, beginning 1936, persuaded the

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Extension Division in San Francisco to offer a course on it and Love, himself, taught the first course that year – initially a ten-week course in all branches of continuity writing

NBC Radio, Hollywood

NBC transferred Love to its new West Coast studio center in Hollywood and, effective July 1, 1937, Love became director of the entire West Coast Continuity Acceptance Editing division. Janet MacRorie ''(maiden;'' 1887–1950) – of NBC Headquarters at Radio City in

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– was the National Director of Continuity Acceptance Editing. The following year, in 1938, NBC opened its new studio facilities, then known as West Coast Radio City, at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street,

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. The new facilities replaced NBC's radio broadcast center in San Francisco, which had been in service since the network's formation in 1927. The Hollywood facilities served as headquarters to the

Networks' West Coast operations. Love, in addition to his executive duties, directed several national broadcast serials, including:

''
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'' The Dunninger Show''
1943–1947: '' The Bob Burns Show''
1948–1951: ''
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1948–1956: '' The Eternal Light''
1949: ''Emotion''
1950–1951: ''The Truitts.''
1951: ''The New Theater''
1951–1952: '' NBC Presents: Short Story''
1951–1955: ''
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''
1853–1954: ''
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1953–1954: ''Last Man Out''

Love also persuaded the

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division to offer a course on radio writing and on November 3, 1937, he began teaching its inaugural class. From 1951 to 1973, annually, Love produced national NBC radio broadcasts of live performances by the

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Other production credits

* Andrew C. Love, Producer,

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, March 30, 1955, NBC Radio and NBC TV * Andrew C. Love, Producer & Director for

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Awards

Love directed two NBC Radio shows that won

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, one in

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, '' NBC University Theatre.'' He also was credited as consultant for a radio production that won a Peabody in

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, ''Conversations With Will Shakespeare and Certain of His Friends'' (series).

Family

Love was born to

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parents who had immigrated to the United States: Niels Andersen Løve (1868–1908) and Else Marie Mortensen. He was years old when his father died. The surname "Løve," in

, translates to "Lion." Love, on October 9, 1920, married Hazel Rae Layton ''(maiden;'' 1893–1984) in Alameda County. Layton, before marrying, had worked for the talking machine department of the Fresno store of the Wiley B. Allen Co.

Notes and references

Notes

There may be some confusion between Andrew Christian Love, the NBC producer of this article, and Andrew Jackson Love (1911–1982), jazz singer with the
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because of a column on December 9, 1976, in the ''Greater Oregon,'' by E.M. Mitchell saying that the two are one and the same.

References

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