Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Classified advertisements in Broadcasting cost 7c per word for each insertion. Cash must accompany order. Forms close 28th and 13th of month preceding issue. The Other Fellow's Viewpoint . . . Situations Wanted Engineer with W.E. 5 and 50 kw. and RCA 500 watt television experience ; also 3V2 years commercial operating ; single ; will go anywhere ; good references. Address Box 46, Broadcasting. Experienced broadcast operator, now working part time, desires steady position ; single ; good references. Box 56, Broadcasting. Microphone Service Guaranteed Microphone Repairs ■ — ■ Any make or Model — 24 hour service. Stretched diaphragm double button repairs, $7.50. Others, $3.00. Single button repairs, $1.50. Write for 1933 Catalog with diagrams. Universal Microphone Company, Ltd., Inglewood, California. Earned Rates To the Editor of Broadcasting: KPRC, Houston, has issued a new national and local rate card, effective Oct. 10, changing our rates slightly and with this special clause under the heading "Discounts" : "Discounts are not applicable until earned. All contracts are billed at open rate, and client credited with applicable discounts when contract is completed." In the past we have been greatly troubled mostly in the local field, but occasionally on national con Help Wanted Unlimited Time Eastern 100 watt station will soon open with new RCA Transmitter, new Studios, City 175,000, ten-mile radius 400,000. Applications considered all departments. Commercial prospects extraordinary. Tell qualifications, experience, references, salary, sales, etc. Absolute confidence, working interest if desired. Box 57, Broadcasting. EXTENSIVE SHUFFLING of executives and staff members of NBC, San Francisco, has made Andy Love new continuity editor to succeed Madonna Todd, who left for San Diego; Tom Kelly is now in charge of drama productions; Helen O'Neill has been promoted to the newly created post of assistant production manager. PHOTO ENGRAVERS COMMERCIAL ARTISTS The Photo Engravings appearing in BROADCASTING bespeak the quality of our work. Phone or write for estimates. 24-hour Operating Schedule — Phones — District 6209 District 6040 Completely Equipped to serve you THE United States Gypsum Company offers you Sound Control Service on any studio problem. Our vast experience in acoustics and studio design has proved helpful to scores of stations. Because we make sound absorbing materials of all kinds, because our methods of sound insulation may be applied to floors, walls, ceilings, doors and machinery of every type, we are completely equipped to serve you. 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Our new plan works out in this manner. We have a client to whom we sell 26 fifteen minute programs at a cost of $100 each, less 10 per cent quantity discount. During the first five months of the campaign, he has used 22 programs, which have been billed at $100 each, the open rate. His last statement which completes the contract will be billed: 4 programs at $100 each, $400. We will then show a credit on that statement for 10 per cent on the total amount of $2,600 or $260, which will be deducted from the last months billing, making a net due us of $140 for the last month. As agency commissions are deductable on the amount of the statement, this plan will eliminate the necessity of charging or crediting the agency with earned discounts, there will not be any necessity for an agency to pay the station a short-rate fee which in some instances they cannot collect, we have granted the client the discount to which he is entitled, and on the whole, believe that we are protecting our representatives from disagreeable back-billing practices. Ingham S. Roberts, Commercial Manager, KPRC, Houston, Tex. Sept. 24, 1932. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY JANSKY and BAILEY Consulting Radio Engineers Commercial Coverage Surveys Allocation Engineering Station and Studio Installations Engineering Management National Press Bldg. Wash., D. C. J. C. McNARY Qonsulting T^odio Engineer Frequency Monitoring Service. Antenna Installation. Field Intensity Surveys. 9420 JONES MILL ROAD Phone Wl sconsin 3181 CHEW CHASE MARYLAND Doolittle & Falknor, Inc. Radio Engineering and Manufacturing, Commercial Coverage Surveys, Field Intensity Surveys, Directional Antenna Installation, Complete Engineering Surveys. 1306-8 W. 74th St., CHICAGO, ILL Guider on Libel {Continued from page 12) speeches in advance from all candidates, or by contracting with the first and all subsequent candidates, and thus retain the right to demand deletion of matter which seems libelous. He declared that these suggestions impose upon broadcasters the difficult task of scrutinizing for its legal effect each personal reference made in a political speech and the additional duty of "monitoring" the speech as it is rendered. "But even then the station may not feel that its worries are ended," he said. "Suppose the speaker, in the enthusiasm of the moment, or even inadvertently, departs from the text of his speech. If the departure involved the use of language that is neither libelous, indecent nor obscene, the station would have no reason to terminate the broadcast. But suppose further, as might readily be the case, that the speaker indulges in some extemporaneous remarks, involving the personal qualities or conduct of his opponents. The monitor, who is not likely to be trained legally, must instantly decide whether the speaker is to be severed from his audience. From the point of view of the broadcasting station the situation teems with dangerous possibilities. Where the facilities of the station have been pui*chased by the speaker, he is entitled to a freedom from interruption during his time on the air, so long as he acts in a lawful manner, and it will be no defense for the station to say, that on the spur of thmoment, it erroneously concluded that a libel was about to be uttered." Mr. Guider concluded that, unfortunately, there is little prospect of any early expression by the Supreme Court on the subject of defamation by radio. He said the Nebraska case has been returned to the trial court for reconsideration, and that even if this case should ultimately find its way to the highest tribunal, that court may not feel called upon to interpret Section 18 (political section of the radio act) beyond a finding relating only to the particular issue in the Sorenson case. WHEN KHJ, Los Angeles, wanted to put on a drama production based on police broadcast, it borrowed the police official announcer, Officer Rosenquist, to do the actual announcing. KSTP S FULL TIME nIORTHWEST'S >DIO STATION Page 30 BROADCASTING • October 15, 1932