Radio Digest (June 1932-Mar 1933)

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Send me your Big Free Radio Book and all details of your Special Introductory Offer, and how I can pay for my training after I graduate. Name . . . Address . City .... State . AUTOMOBILES operated by execu■LX. tives of WOR, New York, are equipped with radio. The reason? Because no matter where the executive may be he can tune in this station. The call letters sent out every fifteen minutes are in reality a code — that is the manner of broadcasting the letters constitutes a signal. Each executive thus can be summoned to headquarters in a hurry . . . Russ Tarboz, brilliant young American composer and conductor, heads the Song Makers, new program heard Thursdays, 8:15 P.M., EST, over WOR . . . Lawrence Tibbett's voice exceeds in volume the noise of a boiler factory or a riveting machine. The test was made in the Firestone Tire plant. * * * Another station finds a place on the honor roll of those who have served listeners for a decade or more. WDAE, Tampa, Fla., is the station. Neither call letters or ownership have changed in that time . . . C. Gordon Jones, latest addition to the staff of the Yankee Network, headquarters in Boston, will supervise improvement of sustaining programs from a technical, musical and production standpoint . . . Radio Audition Studios have opened at 1680 Broadway, under management of Hal Tillotson. Purpose is to audition artists and rehearse programs for advertising agencies and sponsors and development of new radio ideas. Under the head of unusual broadcasts is that of a flea jumping, recently aired by WPAP, New York . . . Joseph H. Neebe is in charge of Detroit offices of Essex Broadcasters, Ltd., which operates station CKWO, South Sandwich, Ontario . . . K T A R , Phoenix, Arizona, is sending out a handsome booklet filled with statistical data about the station and the market it covers . . . An error in this column last month, gave credit to Sam Wilson, of WLW, for the continuity of the new program "Highlights of Yesterday." E. A. Cleland, new to the continuity staff, and who hails from station WLVA, Lynchburg, Virginia, is the lad who wrote the show. * * * WLWL, New York, has just celebrated !he fortieth weekly anniversary of the C. Gordon Jones Testing Volume of Tibbett's Voice "Meet the Composer" program. The station started the program in August 1931, and since then has brought to music lovers the work of our own contemporary composers and artists. The composer directs the air program of his own compositions. Gordon Baking Compa n y and D e 1 a t o n e Company are two new sponsors at WGN, Chicago . . . 17,000,000 homes in this country have receiving sets, it is estimated . .. . WCFL, Chicago, has been granted a construction permit by the Federal Radio Commission to increase its power from 1,500 to 5,000 watts . , . Synchronization experiments conducted by WTIC, Hartford, Connecticut, and WBAL, Baltimore, with NBC, have been discontinued, due to unsatisfactory results. * * * The call letters of the Petersburg, Va., station have been changed from WLBG to WPHR. Nelson T. Stephens is manager . . . Shortwave station W8XK, operated by KDKA, Pittsburgh, has been moved to the ultramodern plant at. Saxonburg, Pa. ... KOB,. Albuquerque, off the air since May, resumes broadcasting this month (July) . . . WCLO, Janesville, Wis., has installed two new modern transmitters and the largest broadcast organ in the state . . . Headlines is the name of a new program heard from WGN, Chicago. Atlas Brewing Company is the sponsor. Wrinkled and greyhaired, an 87-yearold woman, made a try for radio fame at WJR, Detroit, recently. She won out and succeeded in making her radio debut in a program of "Old Songs." . . . WGY, Schenectady, N. Y., is offering two of its program features twice on the same day, afternoon and evening.