Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

A. KlotA# /\ new luu-watt transmitter for Radio Broadcasting « « Shown With Tube Guards Removed « « AC Operation « Automatic Control Q ©. © 111 ,0 O . 1! ______ ti f i © o , : O so 9 It IS' 'Jl j^i * i I Low Initial Tube Cost and Upkeep Installation INEXPFNSIVF Maintenance APPROVED TRANSMITTING APPARATUS DOOLITTLE & FALKNOR 1306-1308 West 74th Street Phone Stewart 2810 CHICAGO Page 20 TRANSCRIPTIONS GENERAL RADIO PROGRAMS Co. 25 West 45th St., New York, has been organized to produce foreign language programs and transcriptions for use in the United States and foreign countries. The company announces it will service agencies, advertisers and radio stations with sustaining and commercial programs. The company occupies the offices of the General Phonograph Mfg. Co., and has secured the services of various artists. W. A. Timms, former head of the foreign divisions of RCA Victor Co., and the Columbia-Okeh Co., is director. His staff includes Henry Rossi, formerly with Columbia-Okeh Co.; Lucille Devore, formerly with the U. S. Department of Commerce. George Rosenberg of the commercial department of WOV, New York, formerly with WFBH, WPCH and WNJ, will act as advisory counsellor for radio station time contracts and programs. A TRANSCRIPTION recording studio has been established at the National Radio Equipment Exhibition on the fourth floor of the National Press building, Washington, D. C. It is known as the Tone-O-Graph System. The device will record speeches or music by either individuals or a group, a special effort being made to interest members of Congress who might send the disks to local broadcasting stations. FREEMAN LANG Sound Recording Studio, Hollywood, has made a series of 35 transcriptions, 15 minutes each, for Ted Dahl, orchestra director at KMTR, Hollywood. Distribution is being made through Lang to broadcast stations as sustaining or sponsored programs. "THE HOOFERS," a radio series, has been recorded for American Radio Features Syndicate, Ltd., 1031 South Broadway, Los Angeles, which has produced and distributed the releases. The Hoofers was written by Laird Doyle, of KFWB and KNX, Hollywood. Stuart Buchanan, KNX anannouncer, takes the male part with Mary Duckett in the feminine role. The series has been released to broadcasters who in turn sell local sponsorship to advertisers. Twenty stations have already taken the series, according to Frederick C. Dahlquist, manager. MAURICE JOACHIM, known over the air as "Rajput," left Hollywood for New York late in February on the completion of 100 transcription releases in the TTreeman Lang Recording Studio, Hollywood. The disks will be released for national distribution for Dr. Strasska's toothpaste. "AUNT EMMY and Bert," being Cliff Arquette and Harold Isbell, have taken their nightly skit from KGFJ, Los Angeles, and have started to record the episodes in the Hollywood laboratories of Continental Broadcasting Corp. AGENCIES AND REPRESENTATIVES STATIONS CMAC of El Mercurio and CMAI of La Nacion, both newspapers of Santiago, Chile, have appointed S. S. Koppe & Co., New York newspaper representatives, to handle their North American radio accounts. BYRNE BAUER, former vice-president of Harold D. Frazee & Co., New York agency handling Scott Howe Bowen, Inc., and Byers Recording Laboratories accounts, among others, has joined the Lewis-Waetjen Agency, New York, as vice-president in charge of marketing and merchandising, including supervision of the radio department. L. SCOTT PERKINS, an NBC pro i ducer in San Francisco, formerly with KMTR and KFWB, Hollywood, on March 1 will become junior partner in the San Francisco agency of Hanak, Kline and Leahy in the Monadnock Building. He will have charge of all * radio campaigns, including the S and W (coffee) programs of Cecil and Sally. The firm was (Norman) Hanak I1 and (Adolph) Kline until last month when W. Vincent Leahy, advertising manager for Sussman and Wormser, entered the firm. GUS MACK, formerly at KFWB, Hollywood, has gone into the radio agency business at 213 South Vermont Ave., Los Angeles. He will handle Dr. S. M. Cowen, dental system; Empire Trading Co., and some group sponsorship accounts. RADIO ADVERTISING of General i Cigar Company is now handled by the J. Walter Thompson Co., New York. THE GRIFFITH-NEWLIN Co. has j opened offices at 720 Rush St., Chicago, to specialize in radio advertising. The agency has started a five-day a week program over WBBM, Chicago, for the ] J. L. Marx Co., financial securities. LOS ANGELES advertising agencies, I not previously chronicled, which operate radio departments: Long's Advertising Service, Realty Building; Clas I ser Advertising Agency, 3875 Wilshire Blvd., and Gaynor Advertising Agency, ! 4665 Hollywood Blvd. EQUIPMENT ~ — " ~ ^ " i A. J. EAVES, research products sales manager for Graybar Electric Co., \ New York, announces that Western Electric 1-A frequency monitors have | been sold to the following stations: KMOX, KGW, WOQ, WREN, WNAX, KJBS, KFSD, KLX, WRVA, WBRC, | WODX, WIS, WTMJ, WSFA, WMBI, I WEAN, WAAB, WNAC, WJAR, 1 KFOX, KFH, WGBS, KOL, KMMJ, j KOIL, KNX, KGFJ, KFVD, WDOD, WDSU, WFBI, WOW, KFRC, KOMO, KMBC, WNBO, KTBR, KOIN, WCAO, KTAR, KGB, KDB, KHJ, WHAM, KDYL. STUDIOS of WRAW and WEEU, I Reading, Pa., will be moved April 1 to enlarged quarters in the Sharp Building. An entire floor will be devoted to five studios and executive offices. For WEEU, a 1 kw. daylight station re ; cently placed in operation, an RCA Victor transmitter has been installed at Spring Township. Acoustic con I struction of the studios is being done by the Johns Manville Co., New York. Clifford W. Chafey is director of both stations. THE FOLLOWING stations have purchased crystal oscillators from the Graybar Electric Co., Inc., New York, to comply with G. O. 116: WRVA, WIMJ, KFBI, KMOX, WLW, WCAE, WJAR, WNAX, KLX, KFSD, KFOX, WDSU, WOQ, WREN, WHB, KFH, KGW, WMBI, WMAQ, WHAM. A NEW modern 50 kw. transmitter will soon be installed for WGY, Schenectady, it was announced on the occasion of the station's tenth anniversary Feb. 20. It is expected to be completed May 8. FRANK M. RUSSELL, NBC vicepresident in Washington, announces that a new 1 kw. RCA transmitter has been ordered for WRC, Washington, licensed for 500 w. on 950 kc. It will be installed atop a local bank building on site of the present transmitter. WIS, Columbia, S. C, has just purchased a 1 kw. Western Electric broadcasting transmitter, together with a 9-A speech input equipment and a 1-A . frequency monitor, from the Graybar '\ Electric Co., Inc., New York. ■ BROADCASTING • March 1, 1932