Frederick Blantford Bate was an American broadcaster of the early 20th century, and was a representative for NBC in Britain during World War II.
This connection became significant for NBC when Edward's relationship with Wallis Simpson threw the British Government into a constitutional crisis.
[7] When the story of the king's affair with Wallis Simpson and the possibility of an abdication suddenly broke on a startled world, Bate was on holiday in New York.
He telephoned Alistair Cooke and asked him to go immediately to Broadcasting House and beam over a news dispatch for NBC before the midnight circuit, which the rival radio network, CBS, had booked.
[8] In 1940, Bate was wounded by shrapnel when a bomb hit NBC's offices in London during World War II.