Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1953
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)
Leaf #:
000219
Language:
English
Subjects:
Radio broadcasting -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- Periodicals, Radio broadcasting -- Kansas -- Periodicals","WHB-AM (Radio station : Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals","Kansas City (Kan.) -- History -- Periodicals","Kansas City (Mo.) -- History -- Periodicals","Cook Paint and Varnish Co. -- Periodicals","WHB Broadcasting Company (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals.
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The official magazine of Kansas City's WHB radio station, SWING printed far more than the station's schedule (which, as the title SWING suggested, relied heavily on music). From 1945 to 1953, SWING offered readers something eclectic every month -- profiles of entertainers on one page, discussions of citizenship in the postwar world on the next, with write-ups of nightlife offerings in KC, Chicago, and New York mixed in. WHB spent decades lobbying the FCC for clear channel status; the magazine's ambitious scope may have been part of the station's attempt to legitimate itself. But it was SWING'S first editor, Jetta Carleton, who later wrote a celebrated novel, that gave the magazine its distinctive style. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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Missouri AP News Coverage Monthly Contest Missouri Associated Press-Radio News Coverage Award for 195^ Dick Smith For Outstanding News Coverage for March Minoon Axxuuun oJ Ancutud Flew BrotdcMtm routine .... just routine . . . . THIRST place award for outstanding news coverage during March, 1953, was awarded by the Missouri Association of Associated Press Broadcasters to Dick Smith of WHB. "On March 12," reads the AP summary, "Smith did an outstanding job of covering an accident near Lone Jack, Missouri, in which five persons were killed. He gave the first tip, followed in fast and had his information in fine shape — an outstanding job." WHB's eye-witness reporting of the Eyssell Court apartment-house fire April 1, in which five persons died and fifteen were injured, was another outstanding example of WHB radio reporting. Charles Gray hurried to the scene as soon as the blaze was reported; witnessed the searing tragedy as it developed; and made four telephone reports on the air between 4:12 p.m. and 5:52 p.m. Usual WHB programs were interrupted for his on-the-scene bulletins. At 8:30 p.m., Smith and Gray broadcast a complete "wrap-up" of the story, with a special tribute to the gallant firemen who died fighting the fire: Don Nastasio, Melvin Kurtz and Joseph Cooney. Exciting and disturbing as these events are, their careful and complete reporting is "routine" for the WHB Newsbureau. WHB • KANSAS CITY