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He ini Radio News Service
7/3/46
ABC COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF STATION WOOD, GRAND RAPIDS
An agreement under which Liberty Broadcasting, Inc., will acquire for $850,000 Station WOOD, Grand Rapids, Michigan, sub¬ ject to Federal Communications Commission approval, has been com¬ pleted by Mark Woods, President of the American Broadcasting Com¬ pany, and Roy C. Kelley, president of Liberty Broadcasting, Inc,
The American Broadcasting Company in April of this year agreed to buy all of the stock of King-Trendle Broadcasting Cor~ poration, licensee of Radio Stations WXYZ, Detroit and WOOD, Grand Rapids. In view of the probability that the Federal Communications Commission would not approve ownership of WOOD by a national net¬ work, the American Broadcasting Company, under the terms of agree¬ ment announced last week , is assigning to Liberty Broadcasting,
Inc., a Grand Rapids Corporation, its rights to purchase insofar as they relate to WOOD,
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WTOP-CATHCLIC UNIVERSITY RADIO WRITERS WORKSHOP OPENS
Monday, July 1st, marked the opening of the WTOPCatholic University annuel Radio Writers Workshop,
Sponsored Jointly by the Columbia Broadcasting System, Washington* s outlet, WTO?, and the University's Department of Speech and Drama, this year’s annual Radio Workshop will present lectures on radio script writing, production, and radio news.
From the staff of WTOPCBS, Director of Community Service and Education Hazel Kenyon Markel will instruct classes in radio orientation, and ProducerDirector Edwin Halbert will precent lec¬ tures on radio production. Radio news will be taught by CBS newsman Gunnar Back with special le cture s by Chief of the CBS Washington News Bureau Eric Sevareid and newsmen Larry Lesueur and Winston Burdett.
Classroom lectures will be held on the University campus with laboratory hours spent at WTOP and other local radio studios,
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The breaking up of snowflakes into tiny particles as they strike an airplane in flight creates sufficient static electricity to account for the blackout of radio voice communications between a plane and the ground, one of the greatest hazards of flying in a snow storm, according to the results of a study made by Vincent J. Schaefer of the General Electric Company’s Research Laboratory in Schenectady,
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