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Helnl Radio News Service
7/17/46
LIGHTEST RECORDING MACHINE I IMPORTED BY WOR; WAR WONDER
A new recording machine, reported to be the most effect¬ ive to date for on-the-spot radio news coverage, has just arrived at Station WOR from England. Small, light and comoact weighing 34 pounds it is by far the most portable machine of its kind ever built. And it is the only one in the United States.
There are several factors that make this new machine news. But the main one is that no outside power supply is needed it has its own power in the form of a special spring-wound motor similar to the type used in the old fashioned phonograph but of modern design and construction. The machine records 3 minutes at 78 r.p.m. on each platter, and the quality is as good as any conventional portable recording machine.
Long range pick-up without added amplification, and a microphone that hooks" on the coat lapel, tree branch or any station¬ ary object are additional features of the machine.
Designed by the British Broadcasting Corporation for use during the Normandy invasion and the march across Europe, the great value of the "powerless" recording machine was qiickly established when, on its initial trial, a correspondent bailed out with one five minutes after hitting the ground he was recording, and a few hours later the record was played on the air.
Predicting a great future for the machine in this country, Dave Driscoll, WOR's Director of News and Special Features, is anxious to test it for the first time. ,,I,m confident that it will be the best thing I've ever used for making spot news inserts to go in our regular news periods’1, said Mr. Driscoll. " 4s a time-saving device it can't be beat all you do is pick it up and run, with no worry about any other equipment whatsoever.”
Mr. Driscoll went on to comnare it with the recording machines he and other U. S. correspondents used overseas. "Our machines depended on so many factors; transportation to haul them; the right current which was seldom found so that a conversion job had to be done, wasting precious minutes. "
"Hearing about the machines used by the BBC, I tried to get a similar one built over here, but couldn't. After the war,
WOR started negotiations, and arrangements were finally made to buy one from England. It's been a. long time getting here, but it was worthwhile waiting for it. "
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