Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

STATION NOTES WKAQ, San Juan, Porto Rico, is now I a thoroughly modern station as the result of complete replacement of equipment. The station has a power output of 1,000 watts, the studios have been remodeled and the antenna rebuilt. Gov. James R. Beverley and other officials participated in the dediI cation. WHAZ, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute station at Troy, N. Y., celebrated its tenth anniversary Sept. 10. One of the first if not the first college broadcasting stations, WHAZ has had Rutherford Hayner, managing editor of the Trcy Times, as program director and chief announcer since its inception. WBZ, Boston, has contributed six announcers to the NBC staff in New York, more than has any other station. The last and youngest graduate is Charles O'Connor, 22. MARKING the completion of supplementary studios in Omaha, KFAB, Lincoln, Nebr., was honored on Sept. 18 when the program of the Chicago Knights broadcast over CBS was dedicated to the CBS outlet in Lincoln. KVOR, Colorado Springs, broadcast the first description of the annual Pikes Peak auto races Labor Day. The broadcast was made possible through the cooperation of the portable short wave station, W9ZAAJ, and the amateur station, W9DNP. COMPLETION of the 987-foot mast antenna of WSM, Nashville, is expected by Nov. 1, a month behind schedule. DELL DECORATING Co., Newark, is redecorating the reception room of WAAM, Newark, following out a Spanish motif. WHAM, Rochester, reported the world's greatest fresh water yachting event during August in daily broadcasts from the race course five miles off shore in Lake Ontario. Shortwave equipment was used to transmit the reports from a specially-equipped cruiser to the shore. FOUR AIRPLANE propellers are used in the cooling system designed for the new 25,000-watt transmitter now being installed at KNX, Hollywood. The power increase will become effective about Oct. 1. WFBE, Cincinnati, recently broadcast a description of Laura Ann Watkins, two and a half, who had strayed from home, and in ten minutes the child was located. TWO NEW studios, embodying the latest in acoustics, are being built for WJKS, Gary, Ind. Scoop for KGW A TIE-IN with its client, the Packard Sales & Service Co., enabled KGW to score a scoop on every new event in connection with the American Legion convention held in Portland last month. Met at the railroad station by a Packard scout car bearing KGW decorations, visiting notables were taken direct to The Oregonian building where they made their first appearances on the air. METROPOLITAN Opera will be back on the air over NBC, M. H. Aylesworth, NBC president, announced Sept. 19. Broadcasts will begin shortly after the opera season opens Nov. 21. \MONDS WAT C H E S SAINT LOUIS Ur< L. A. Benson, Fre*id«nt, Radio Station ML St. Louis, Do. Dear lir. Benson: As the pioneer commercial radio broadcaster, jeweler, of St. Louis, it may interest you to know of our experience in using radio commercially, extending continuously over a period of six years. ?or four years we used three local stations regularly. Then we decided to try only one station and, it happened, we began using V7IL exclusively. Our results, on this basis, have been so gratifying during this two year period that we have decided to continue with you for another year. Acoordingly, therefore, will you please have one of your staff call upon me within the next few weeks to discuss renewal of our existing contract? Appreciating your ever helpful cooperation, and wishing you continued success, 1 am, Sincerely, . k Pre George L. Weber Jewelry Co. 507 Locust Street. . . . your clients, too, will be Just as Happy with W I L PROGRAM NOTES "OPERETTA IN MINIATURE," regular Yankee Network feature during the past winter, was resumed on Sept. 17 over WNAC, Boston, and associated Yankee Network stations. The half-hour shows of last year will be increased to 45 minutes, 9:15 to 10:00 p.m., every Saturday. An organist and cast of staff vocalists will give as much of the score of an operetta or musical comedy as possible each week, while a narrator provides the essential portion of the story. Fred A. Bishop again directs. A MUSICAL program built around an old souvenir chest is a new feature at WGAL, Lancaster, Pa. An accompanying story is told by a narrator, and an old fashioned reed organ is is played. WALTER DAMROSCH will return from another summer vaea+ion to assemble on Oct. 14 his pupils for the fifth season of the NBC Music Appreciation Hour. The program will be heard over combined NBC networks from 11 a.m. to noon, EST, each Friday through April 28, 1933. CASH PRIZES of $1 each for sports "boners" are being offered by WGAL, Lancaster, Pa., as a feature of a weekly sports talk. Jack Martin, sports editor of the Intellingencer Journal, reads the prize "boner" every Tuesday evening during his talk on current sports. A NOVEL musical program, "The Spinning Wheel." which resurrects music of the pioneer days of the United States, is being broadcast by WLS, Chicago, each Friday at 1:15 p.m., CST. ASSOCIATED OIL Co. is presenting its Spotlight Revue, Saturday nisht NBC-KGO variety program in a series of six personal appearances, sans admission, at the Community Playhouse in San Francisco, from where the program is broadcast by remote control. RADIO GUIDE, Chicago, (radio publication) has inaugurated a weekly series of 15-minute dramatic skits of newspaper work over WIBO, Chicago, Sept. 9, to run indefinitely. "ETHEL AND HARRY." the women's shopping hour on WHK, Cleveland, sponsored by various concerns, has been increased in lensrth from one hour to 75 minutes in order to accommodate additional advertisers. WAAM, Newark, N. J., boasts of having the oldest radio singer in the world. She is Mrs. Sara Sutton, 99 years old and the oldest resident of Newark, who sines durine the weekly broadcasts of the WAAM Happy Hour. CBS has decided to relay to the American audience the "To an Unnamed Listener" series scheduled by the British Broadcasting Corp., beginning Oct. 10. 4:20-4:40 p.m., EST. The series includes such celebrities as Geore-e Bernard Shaw, J. B. Priestley, Harold Nicolson, A. P. Herbertm Lord Byng, Evelyn Waugrh, Gerald Heard, Desmond MacCarthy, Stella Benson and Max Beerbohm. FINANCIAL editors of four New York's leading newspapers discussed business conditions for the fall over WOR, Newark, on a series of programs the week of Sept. 19. The sneakers were: Jack Forest, of the New York Times; Ralph Robey, New York Evening Post; Leslie Gould, New York Evening Journal, and Roy Hendershot, World Telegram. WCLO, Janesville, Wis., has organized the WCLO School of Expression to train children between the ages of five and thirteen in the art of speaking, microphone appearances and the like. The children will take part in Uncle Sid's ABC Club, popular children's feature. Classes are under direction of Marian Antisdel, graduate of the University of Wisconsin. "BETWEEN the Goalposts" is the title of a new weekly feature inaugurated from KHJ, Los Angeles, on the CBS-Don Lee network Sept. 16. An orchestra, football stars, coaches and other athletic notables will be featured each Friday, 9:30 to 10 p.m., PST. Announcements of the gridiron schedule for the following day will be carried each Friday. TAKING a line out of Ripley's book KGW, Portland, Ore., has been broadcasting a series of programs entitled "Did You Know?" Feature employed Joseph Boland, stage actor, and violin and piano. The challenge to the listeners' intelligence brought such immediate response that the program was bought after the second week by a local educational institution. NBC in San Francisco is holding tryouts for a new program known as "Dusty McLain and his Out-of-Money Minstrels." It comprises quartets, comedians, dancers and hot-cha music makers. Talent was organized by Clarence Muse, writer of "Way Down South," a song, as well as a book of the same name. INTERVIEWS before the microphone of outstanding personalities visiting Milwaukee are being carried over WTMJ in a new series of programs conducted by Mrs. Nancy Grey, who conducts the "What's New in Milwaukee" period. "DOC" DAUGHERTY, veteran Philadelphia orchestra leader, recently celebrated his 2,000th broadcast over WIP-WFAN, Philadelphia. A program was arranged in honor of the popular maestro featuring a number of the melodies that have been popular during the five years in which his unusual record was compiled. Entertaining Committee Named For NAB Meet THOMAS PATRICK CONVEY, president of KWK, St. Louis, as the chairman of the Entertainment Committee for the NAB convention, to be held at the Hotel Chase, St. Louis, Nov. 14, 15 and 16, has appointed the following as members of the committee: Clarence G. Cosby, KWK, vice chairman; William P. Mackle, managing secretary of the St. Louis Radio Trades Ass'n, secretary; Fred Weber, station relations manager, NBC, Chicago; Nelson Darragh, KMOX, St. Louis; E. B. Foote, World Broadcasting System; Leo Fitzpatrick, WJR, Detroit; Scott Howe Bowen, New York; A. T. Sears, Chicago; Harold C. Vance, RCA Victor Co., Chicago; Willard Hanges, Graybar Electric Co., St. Louis; Martin Codel, Broadcasting, Washington; R. B. Robertson, Broadcast Advertising, Chicago; and Thomas Stevenson, National Broadcast Reporter, Washington. To insure adequate accomodations at the convention, which this year is expected to attract numerous agency and account executives as well as broadcasters, reservations should be made at once with the Hotel Chase, headquarters of the convention. Tenth for BBC SPECIAL PROGRAMS will mark the tenth anniversary of the British Broadcasting Corporation during the week of Nov. 13. A program tour of the BBC studios and the broadcasting of "The Three Musketeers" and "Romeo and Juliet" are on the schedule. October 1, 1932 • BROADCASTING Page 23