Broadcasting (July - Dec 1936)

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Jansky & Bailey An Organization of Qualified Radio Engineer* Dedicated to the SERVICE OF BROADCASTING National Press Bldg., Wash., D. C. There is no substitute for experience GLENN D. GILLETT Consulting Radio Engineer 982 National Press Bldg. Washington, D. C. McNARY and CHAMBERS Radio Engineers National Press Bldg. Nat. 4048 Washington, D. C. PAUL F. GODLEY Consulting Radio Engineer Montclair, N. J. "25 years of Professional Background" EDGAR H. FELIX 32 ROCKLAND PLACE Telephone: New Rochelle 5474 NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. Field Intensity Surveys, Coverage Presentations for Sales Purpoiea, Allocation and Radio Coverage Reports. JOHN BARRON Consulting Radio Engineer Specializing in Broadcast and Allocation Engineering Earle Building, Washington, D. C. Telephone NAtional 7757 EDWARD H. LOFTIN BROADCAST, COMMUNICATIONS AND PATENTS CONSULTANT 1406 G STREET, N. W. District 4105 WASHINGTON, D. C J. M. TEMPLE Consulting Radio Engineer 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York City P. 0. Box 189 Times Square Station W. P. Hilliard Co. TZjxdio transmission Equipment 2106 Calumet Ave. CHICAGO ILLINOIS E. C. PAGE Consulting Radio Engineer 725 Noyes St. Phone Univ. 1419 Evanston. Ill FRED O. GRIMWOOD Consulting Radio Engineer Specializing in Problems of Broadcast Transmission and Coverage Development. P. 0. Box 742 Evansville, Ind. HERBERT L. WILSON Consulting Radio Engineer Design of Directional Antennas and Antenna Phasing Equipment, Field Strength Surveys, Station Location Surveys. 260 E. I6lst ST. NEW YORK CITY JENKINS & ADAIR, Inc. Engineers Designers and Manufacturers of Radio Transmission. Sound Film. Disc Recording and Communication Equipment 3333 BELMONT AVE. CHICAGO, ILL. CABLE : J EN K A DAI R THE SOBY YARDSTICK OF AUDIENCE VALUE Impartial and comparable data about the size and location of the audience of radio programs and stations. Write for information and prices. BENJAMIN SOBY AND ASSOCIATES 1023 Wallace Ave. Wilkinsburg, Pa. FREQUENCY MEASURING SERVICE Many stations find this exact measuring service of great value for routine observation of transmitter performance and for accurately calibrating their own monitors. MEASUREMENTS WHEN YOU NEED THEM MOST R. C. A. COMMUNICATIONS, Inc. Commercial Department A RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA SERVICE 66 BROAD STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. IN THE CONTROL ROOM ERNEST E. JEFFERSON, formerly NBC studio engineer in San Francisco, has been named transmitter engineer at KSFO in that city. He replaces John Powers, who resigned to join Techna Corp., San Francisco equipment manufacturers, as chief engineer. M. W. HORRELL, for the last year chief research engineer of First National Television Inc., Kansas City, has returned to his alma mater, Kansas State College at Manhattan, Kan., to take over television research and supervise the operation of its experimental visual station W9XAK. C. W. LOEBER, FCC inspector in charge of the Detroit district, has been ordered to take charge of the St. Paul district on Nov. 1. He succeeds John M. Sherman, who resigned Sept. 16 to become chief technician of WTCN, Minneapolis. BRUCE VAUGHN has been taking the place of William Heitz, of WSAZ, Huntington, W. Va., who in turn has been pinch-hitting for Bill Bradley, of WCHS, Charleston, W. Va. WILLIAM ROBINSON and Lester Seyfert have joined the laboratory staff of Commercial Radio Equipment Co., Kansas City, which is planning to introduce several new items in the broadcast field. CRAIG E. PICKETT, NBC studio engineer in Chicago, and George Maher Jr., NBC studio engineer in San Francisco, exchanged jobs Sept. 30, each replacing the other. NED NOLAN, graduate of Dodge Institute, Valparaiso, Ind., has joined the engineering department of WGAR. Cleveland, replacing Ed Penny, who has resigned to become a ship operator. EDWARD HLAVATY has left the Chicago sound effects staff of NBC to take charge of a shortwave transmitter for the Illinois state police. Irving B. Bickler replaces Hlavaty at NBC. CARL DREHER. chairman of the Academy of Motion Picture's Research Council scientific committee, left Hollywood for New York to make a television survey. HARRY R. LUBCKE. director of television of the Don Lee Broadcasting System, on Sept. 29 was issued Letters Patent No. 2.055.748 by the U. S. Patent Office covering a television device of his own invention. HAROLD ROYSTON. of NBC's Chicago engineering staff, is the father of a baby girl. WALTER TIBBALS. sound effects operator of WNEW, Newark, is suffering from blood poisoning contracted while experimenting with a noise gadget. KFWB on Warner Lot KFWB, Hollywood, early in October abandoned the executive offices which it has occupied for many years on the top floor of the Warner Brothers Theatre Bldg. in Hollywood and moved into its new quarters on the Warner Bros, lot at Sunset Blvd. and N. Bronson Ave.. Hollywood. This reunites the administrative and program forces. The production department had moved to the lot neai'ly a year ago. The studio offices occunv an entire building on Warner's lot with complete facilities. The radio department will continue to occupy sound stage four at Warner's lot where the quarters include sound stasres. studios, rehearsal and audition rooms and offices for the production division. INFORM ATICj • • • 1 EQUIPMENT , • • • SERVICE « ! Radio Engineering Consultants • For Established Station: and For New Station Applican Frequency Measurement* Tru-AXIS Drift CRYSTAI (Approved by F.C.C.) 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All matters confidential Radio Investment Company Broadcasting Properties Times Bldg, New Yor For Rent — Equipment Approved equipment, RCA TMVfield strength measuring unit (ni direct reading ; Astiline Angus Auton Recorder for fading on distant stati GR radio frequency bridge; radio os< tors, etc. Reasonable rental. Allied search Laboratories, 260 East 161st St New York City. For Sale — Equipment Western Electric 100 Watt 12-B Ti * mitter. This transmitter is in exceB condition, being recently retired from s J" ice due to a power boost. Sold com:* with "low hours" set of tubes. Avai|fc immediately and can be inspected at },m time. KGFF, Shawnee, Oklahoma. Page 82 • October 15, 1936 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertisif