Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

GEORGE CASE, youthful announcer at WCKY, Covington, Ky., is now heard twice weekly in his own program "Rhythm and Rhyme," as well as each evening as the "Advertiser" in a new program "It Pays To Advertise." HANK KEENE, director of the "Connecticut Hillbillies" featured by WTIC, Hartford, has published a songbook containing the most popular of the rustic ditties and ballads used by the "Hillbillies" in their programs. LESTER WEELANS is the latest addition to the KOA, Denver, announcing staff. Though six years out of Rutgers College, this is his initial radio work. He will direct the Colorado Cowboys. VIC MEYERS, known in the northwest for his radio programs over the now defunct ABC chain, is one of the ten candidates for mayor of Seattle. His platform, in humorous mood, includes hostesses for city owned street cars and high chairs for city aldermen. CHARLES HACKETT, leading tenor of the Chicago Grand Opera Company, New York, has signed a contract to enter radio under exclusive management of Adams Broadcasting Service. KFI, LOS ANGELES, has added three vocalists to its staff — Alice Forsythe Mosher, soprano, and Eleanor Rennie, contralto, formerly with KHJ, and Allan Watson, basso. BEBE DANIELS, film star, has entered into a contract with the Adams Broadcasting Service, New York, for radio appearances. CLIFFORD WELCH, concert pianist, is now accompanist announcer at WOR, Newark, as assistant to Harry Mack. BERT MacDOWELL and his orchestra have been added to the staff of KYW, Chicago. LOU CLAUSON, formerly with eastern stations, has joined KFAC, Los Angeles, with a song program and to do the continuity for a weekly playlet. JOHN S. DAGGETT, who conducted "Uncle John's Children's Hour" over KHJ, Los Angeles, when manager of that station, has gone to KGFJ in the same city as staff announcer. STEWART HAMBLIN, formerly with KMTR, Hollywood, has moved to KFVD, Culver City, Cal., to stage the "Covered Wagon Jubilee" as an early morning broadcast. The Happy-goLucky-trio, three years the morning KFVD feature, thereupon moved to KFAC, its sister station in Los Angeles. ROYAL DADMUN, popular concert baritone and Victor Recording artist, has been engaged by WTIC, Hartford, as guest soloist of the first "Travelers Hour" each month. DAVID CASEM, director of news broadcasts on WOR, Newark, was a guest of the Newark Evening News at the mid-winter luncheon of the New Jersey Press Association in Trenton this month. FRED LANE, staff announcer at KFRC, San Francisco, has taken over the weekly book chats formerly done by Monroe Upton, who left for NBC. IN THE CONTROL ROOM WGY, Schenectady, which in February celebrated its tenth birthday, points with pride to the following alumni: W. R. G. Baker, now vicepresident of engineering and manufacture for the RCA Victor Co., Camden, N. J.; Harry Sadenwater, formerly chief engineer at WGY, now in charge of receiver design for RCAVic or; A. B. Chamberlain, former engineer at WGY, now chief engineer of CBS, and Andrew D. Ring, formerly in charge of transmitter development, now senior engineer of the Radio Commission. FRED SMELTZER, who built WGAW (now WFBG, AUoona, Pa.) when he was an amateur, later attending Carnegie Tech, has been engaged by WFBG to install its new transmit er equipment. C. R. Leutz, formerly chief engineer of WFBG, has resigned and is now residing in Forest Hills, N. Y. CHARLES FRANCIS, of the New York police department, formerly detailed to the engineer staff of WNYC, has been assigned to technical supervising duties at the police headquarters transmitter. J. G. COBBLE, widely known in radio engineering circles, is now connected wi^h the service department staff of Parks-Chambers' radio department, Atlanta. JOSEPH T. O'MARA has been designated as broadcasting supervisor of WNYC, New York, as a result of civil service examinations. He formerly served as a public address opertor with the same station. Prior to that he was an executive technician of WLWL, New York. HAROLD E. SHERER, former ship operator, has joined WEEU, Reading, Pa., as operator. Harold O. Landis, chief engineer of WRAW, Reading, under the same management, is now chief engineer of WEEU. ENGINEERS of WFIW, Hopkinsville, Ky., have just finished building a new 100-watt short wave amateur radiophone transmitter to operate on the 85 meter band. The entire, operating staff of the station holds amateur licenses. R. L. Linx, chief engineer, W9GOB; Odes E. Robinson, W4AJA; Joe McCormick, W4RC, and Fred Grimwood, W9AHM. ISAAC BRIMBERG, chief engineer of WNYC, New York, and Mrs. Brimberg are the parenfs of a daughter born at Beth Israel Hospital. COL. DAWSON OLMSTEAD, U. S. Signal Officer at Seattle, which is headquarters for the Army's Alaskan radio net, went to Alaska on an inspection trip in February. At Ketchikan he announced that radiotelephone service will be installed there to communicate with canneries, cannery tenders and smaller communities by May 1. DAVID MYERS has been added to the operating staff of WGAL, Lancaster, Pa. Program of I.R.E. Meeting Arranged A NUMBER of technical papers of interest to the radio industry will be presented during the five sessions of the twentieth anniversary convention of the Institute of Radio Engineers at Pittsburgh April 7-9. Among the papers scheduled are: "Radio Dissemination of the National Standard Frequency," by J. H. Dellinger and E. L. Hall, Bureau of Standards; "KennellyHeaviside Layer Studies," by J. P. Shafer and W. M. Goodall, Bell Telephone Laboratories; "Radio Test Methods and Equipment," W. F. Diehl, RCA Victor Co.; "Sound Collection and Directional Microphones," H. F. Olson, RCA Photophone Co., and "A New Field Strength Meter," P. B. Taylor, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. The afternoon session on April 9 will be devoted to a KDKA symposium. Various members of the station's technical staff will read papers. Station Honor Roll At Halfway Mark THAT MORE and more broadcasting stations are adjusting transmitters to deviate less than 50 cycles in anticipation of the limitation order which becomes effective June 22 is apparent in the report of the Radio Division, Department of Commerce, for January. Out of 449 stations measured, the largest number since the checking began, 230 or 51.2 per cent met the new cycle requirements. Ninety-four or 20.9 per cent deviated less than 100 cycles, 63 or 14 per cent kept within 200 cycles, while 62 or 13.9 per cent went beyond the 200-cycle mark. These tabulations set a new record for the 14 months during which measurements have been made. For the first three months no station came within the 50-cycle limit, and since then the rise has been rapid. During the past three months a gain of five per cent has been noted each period. Deviations Under 50 Cycles FOLLOWING are the measured stations which met the 50-cycle requirement in January: KCR, KELW, KEX, KFAB, KFAC, KFBI, KFBK, KFDM, KFEQ, KFGQ, KFI, KFJB, KFJR, KFLV, KFOR, KFPM, KFPY, KFRU, KFSD, KFUO, KFVE, KFWI, KFYR, KGBX, KGCA, KGDA, KGDM, KGDY, KGER, KGFJ. KGGC, KGHI, KGIZ, KGKO, KGKY. KGNF, KGO, KGU, KGW, KHQ, KIT, KJBS, KJR. KLRA. KLS. KLX, KLZ, KMBC, KMJ, KMO, KMOX, KMPC, KMTR. KNX, KOA, KOAC, KOH, KOIL, KOL. KOMO, KOY, KRE, KRGA, KRLD, KSAC. KSD, KSO. KSOO. KSTP. KTAB, KTAR, KTAT, KTBS. KTFI. KTHS, KTM, KTRH, KTSM, KVI. KVOO, KVOR, KVOS, KWG, KWJJ, KWK, KWLC, KXA, KXRO, KXYZ, KYA, WAAB, WAAM, WAAW, WAWZ, WBAA, WBAL, WBBC, WBBM, WJBT, WBEN, WBEO, WBT, WBTM, WCAO, WCBD. WCBM, WCCO, WCFL, WCKY, WCLS, WCSH, WDAE, WDAF, WDBJ, WDOD, WEAI, WEAN, WEBC, WEBQ, WEDC, WEEI, WEEU, WENR, WEPS, WORC, WERE, WEVD, WFAA, WFAN, WIP, WFBL, WFDF, WFEA. WFI. WFIW. WGAL, WGCM, WGES. WGH, WLIB, WGR, WHA. WHAD, WHAP, WHAZ, WHB, WHBC, WHBL, WHDF, WHEC, WHFC, WHIS, WHN, WHO, WHP, WIBG, WIBO, WIBW, WINS. WISN. WJAG, WJBL, WJMS, WJSV, WJTL, WJZ, WKBI, WKBV, WKBW, WKJC, WKRC, WHY, WLBF, WLCI, WLIT, WLOE, WLS. WLVA. WMAC. WSYR. WMAL, WMAQ. WMBG, WMBQ, WMBD, WMIL, WMMN, WMT. WNAX. WNBH, WNYC, WOAI, WOAX, WOBU, WOC. WODA, WOI. WOKO. WOL, WOMT, WOS, WPAD, WPEN, WPG. WPOR. WTAR, WPTF. WQBC. WRAW, WRAX. WRC, WRDO, WRHM, WRJN, WRR, WRUF, WRVA, WSAN WSAR, WSAZ, WSB. WSBT. WSM. WSMB. WSU. WSYB, WTAG. WTAM. WTAQ. WTAW, WTIC, WTMJ, WWAE, WWJ, WXYZ. General Ferrie Passes WORLD radio on Feb. 16 lost one of its most eminent leaders, with the death in Paris of General Gustave Ferrie, Inspector General of the French Army telegraphic services. He died at the age of 64 following an appendicitis operation. General Ferrie was wellknown in American radio circles, having been an outstanding delegate at the Washington Radiotelegraph Conference of 1927 and having visited this country on many occasions. Messages of condolence were sent to his widow by Maj. Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman of the Radio Commission and Dr. J. H. Dellinger of the Bureau of Standards. THE HOUSE OF GURNEY INC 1. Whole Wheat Breakfast Food Co. gets an average return of 300 letters per day containing evidence of a sale in each letter. 2. A M ineral Water Crystal brings in a hundred orders per day at $1.50 per pound. 3. A Hatchery sells three million chicks in one season, with prospects of five million this year. These are recent results — just three out of many. You can do as well or better by placing your advertising over 1000 Watts 570 Kilocycles YANKTON, S. DAK. Page 18 BROADCASTING • March 1, 1932