Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

Drops Comedians BECAUSE Clarence Kolb was absent during one program, the Gilmore Oil Co., sponsor, cancelled its contract with Kolb and Dill, comedians, and thus terminated "The Dinglebenders" on NBC's Pacific coast network after four months. The "Gilmore Circus" replaced the comedians. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Classified advertisements in Broadcasting cost 7c per word for each insertion. Cash must accompany order. Forms close 28th and 13th of month preceding issue. Help Wanted Two Radio Announcers qualified as musicians, and one combination production manager and musical director who can play piano and pipe organ. State experiences, three references and salary desired. Box 37, c/o Broadcasting. Microphone Service Guaranteed Microphone Repairs — Any make or model — 24-hour service. Stretched diaphragm double button repairs $7.50. Others $3.00. Single button repairs $1.50. Write for 1932 Catalog with diagrams. Universal Microphone Co., Ltd., Inglewood, Calif. Situations Wanted Former Assistant Secretary Federal Radio Commission desires position with broadcasting station. Since resignation from Commission, I have been engaged in radio broadcasting activities, including sales promotion, program production and general station management. Can furnish references of highest order and can report for work in any part of the country immediately. Address Box 34, Broadcasting. Report on KTAB Raps Astrologers RECOMMENDATION that the license, of KTAB, Oakland, Cal., operated by the Associated Broadcasters, Inc., be renewed despite findings that certain programs presented by two astrologers were not in the public interest, and that the station had violated the regulation regarding announcements of mechanical productions, was made to the Radio Commission July 2 by Chief Examiner Ellis A. Yost. Thomas E. Morgan, manager of KTAB, testified at the hearing that the broadcasts by Kobar and Zoro, astrologers, were concluded prior to May 2, when the controlling interests were transferred to him. Only one complaint was made against Dr. J. Douglas Thompson, a chiropractor, who conducts a health chat series over the station, during the last two years, the report stated. Correspondence introduced showed that the Kobar and Zoro programs were discontinued when the Radio Commission indicated its disapproval of such broadcasts. MANY naval aviation planes flying from San Diego to Los Angeles plot their course directly by the carrier waves of KFI's new 50,000 watt transmitter at Buena Park, according to the station's technical force. On taking off from the San Diego field the pilots pick up the carrier waves on their receiving sets, which are equipped with directional antennae, and for the rest of the journey make use of this radio "beacon." Radio Dressmaker WDAE, Tampa, Florida, has a new feature. It is a radio dressmaker. Madam La Vitt each Thursday morning gives a minute description of an original model, tells listeners just how to make the costume and, for a small fee, offers to cut an individual pattern. The new feature has had enthusiastic response. WMAQ School Provides Textbooks for Listeners THE WMAQ Summer School of the Air inaugurated in Chicago on June 20 provides paper-bound textbooks at a nominal cost to all pupils enrolled. It also furnishes a guide for the leader of the assembled classes. The radio school makes no pretense of supplanting summer school class instruction but provides a supplementary instruction that is lauded by educators. It offers a primary grade curriculum that is lacking in most summer schools. University Offers A. B. Degree in Broadcasting OGLETHORPE University, Atlanta, has announced what is said to be the first course in the world leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree in radio broadcasting. The course will open this fall and will provide training in the technical and administrative branches of station operation. WJTL, which is operated by the university, sells time as does any commercial station. Northwestern University some time ago announced a course in radio continuity writing but offered no degree for the work. "Liberal" Mouthpiece ABOUT $250,000 has been raised for the new equipment and operation of WEVD, the Eugene V. Debs Memorial station in New York, according to New York reports. The station intends to operate as the mouthpiece of "liberalism," with regular discussions by such men as Oswald Garrison Villard, Heywood Broun, Norman Thomas and B. C. Vladeck. New York Broadcasts Sued by Watch Compan CHARGING breach of contra, the Waltham Watch Co., WalthaMass., filed suit in the Suprer Court in New York City July 2 recover $25,000 from the Feder Broadcasting Corp. and the Ce tury Indemnity Co. The wat company complained that last Se tember it entered into an agre ment with the broadcasting coi pany under which the latter unde took to consolidate stations WBN WMSG and WCDA, part-time Ne York stations, and to carry its a vertising announcements for o year in return for $25,000. The Waltham concern alleg that the combination was only pa tially carried out and that that a nouncements have been going o since last December over only t\ of the stations. The indemni company is named because it sign the bond of the broadcasting cor pany as surety for performance the contract. KGMP Ordered Delete< DELETION of KGMP, Elk Cit Okla, operated by Homer F. Br ant, was ordered by the Rad Commission July 1, reversing Chi Examiner Yost. Simultaneously granted the application of E. ] Woody, Elk City", for a new st tion to use the KGMP local a signment on 1210 kc. with li watts, sustaining the Chief Exan ner. Radio "Scoops" Worl (Continued from page 8) publican convention and 30 V2 fro the Democratic. He was assist' by P. J. Morrison of the America staff, Frank Haben Clark and W liam J. Clark, Jr., the latter fo merly with NBC in Chicago. Tl chief engineer was E. A. Beane, a sisted by E. C. Page and Len Cai son. Altogether, it was a magnifice job magnificently handled by £ the radio parties involved. Tl resolution adopted by the Dem cratic Convention paying tribute the way radio handled it for all tl world to hear, as offered 1 Josephus Daniels, Secretary of tl Navy in the Wilson administratio was only too well deserved. Th writer believes that, if they d not do so, both networks and st tions missed a great opportuni to recreate the dramatic momen of the conventions in later yea by having recording equipment . hand to transcribe all or part their broadcasts. This is doi regularly by the British Broa casting Corporation, which recon on a device known as a Blattne phone the speeches and "runnii commentaries" of news events 1 announcers on a magnetized ste tape that can be wound up ai stored away for reproduction. Tl BBC has built an entire "library of Blattnerphone tape recording JANSKY and BAILEY Consulting Radio Engineers Commercial Coverage Surveys Allocation Engineering Station and Studio Installations Engineering Management National Press Bldg. Wash., D. C. Completely Equipped to serve you THE United States Gypsum Company offers you Sound Control Service on any studio problem. Our vast experience in acoustics and studio design has proved helpful to scores of stations. Because we make sound absorbing materials of all kinds, because our methods of sound insulation may be applied to floors, walls, ceilings, doors and machinery of every type, we are completely equipped to serve you. 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