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Andrew C. Love (né Anderson Christian Love; 23 October 1894 Bridgeport, Connecticut – 14 December 1987 San Diego, California) was an NBC national broadcast radio theater producer and director on the West Coast (in California).

Career
In 1914, Love became manager of the talking machine department of Kohler & Chase in Seattle, succeeded Harry Welles Dawley (1883–1963), who resigned a short time earlier. Before 1914, Love had been with the Columbia Graphophone Co. in that city. Since before 1918, and through 1920, Love worked for the San Francisco branch of the Columbia Graphophone Company. He sold phonographs.

U.S. Army, World War I
In 1918, Love enlisted in the U.S. Army.

Post World War I
Before marring Hazel in 1920, Hazel, had worked for the talking machine department of the Fresno store of the Wiley B. Allen Co. Sometime after his marriage in 1920, Love is covered territory in the San Joaquin Valley for the Columbia.

NBC Radio
Since about 1930, Love worked for NBC Radio, initially in San Francisco.

From at least 1935, until 1937, Love had been a continuity editor for NBC in San Francisco.  University Radio Course, UC Berkeley Extension Division in San Francisco. Love, then a continuity acceptance editor for NBC in San Francisco, taught, via broadcast radio, a ten-week course in all branches of continuity writing. 

NBC Hollywood
Effective July 1, 1937, NBC transferred him to Hollywood to work with Janet MacRorie (maiden; 1887–1950) as head of similar position – critical editor of NBC's Continuity Acceptance Division (a censor) – in keeping with the rise in NBC radio production in Hollywood and the growing importance of the editing phase of continuity acceptance work. MacRorie was, at the time, head of continuity acceptance for all of NBC.

Love convinced UCLA Extension division to offer a course on radio writing and on November 3, 1937, he began teaching it.

Love directed several NBC radio shows, including:  Amos 'n' Andy  The Bob Burns Show  The Dunninger Show  1951–1955: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator  1951–1952: NBC Presents: Short Story

Selected episodes:  1951: "The Lottery"  1853–1954: Rocky Fortune  The Eternal Light  1949: Emotion  1953–1954: Last Man Out  The New Theater  1948–1951: NBC University Theater  The Truitts. </ol>

From 1951 to 1973, Love produced the national NBC radio broadcast of live performances by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Awards

 * Two Peabody Awards for excellence in radio (before 1959)
 * 1948: NBC University Theatre, NBC Radio?
 * 1962: The Eternal Light, NBC Radio?
 * 1967: The Eternal Light, NBC Radio?
 * 1972: Conversations with Will Shakespeare and Certain of His Friends (series)
 * KOAC, Corvallis, Oregon
 * KOAP-FM, Portland, Oregon
 * Carl Ritchie, writer and narrater
 * Frank Woodman of KOAC, producer
 * Andrew C. Love, consultant

Credits

 * Andrew C. Love, Producer, 27th Academy Awards, March 30, 1955, NBC Radio and NBC TV
 * Andrew C. Love, Producer & Director for NBC Radio, 28th Academy Awards, March 21, 1956, NBC Radio and NBC TV

Family

 * Love, on October 9, 1920, married Hazel Rae Leighton (1893–1984) in Alameda County.


 * Andrew was born to Danish-born parents, Niels Andersen Løve (1868–1908) and Else Marie Mortensen. Andrew was 13 years old when his father died.
 * Both Andrew's parents were born in Denmark. The surname "Løve," in Danish, translates to "Lion."