Broadcasting (July - Dec 1937)

CONTROL ROOM LPH L. CLARK, FCC broadcast .ineer, and Mrs. Clark, are the •■nts of a baby boy. Richard Leigh, I Sept. 2. He is their second son. KRY BRYANT, KHJ. Los Ans. technician, and Alice Dahl, of station's script department, were :Tied in Mexico. Aug. 29. RRY ADAJMS has been promoted , bief engineer of Associated CineStudios, Hollywood transcription 1. Fred Bowen has rejoined the mization's technical staff. AXLEY M. PARISEAU, formerly rict superintendent of Electric Re■ch Products Inc.. San Francisco, been made division superintendheadquartered in Hollywood. K. ALDEX, former chief engineer WALR, Zanesville, O.. has been -led chief engineer of KOY, Phoeiix, Ariz. James Ross has also joined i jhe technical staff of KOY. ' r. E. BRIDGES, in charge of ref notes for WBAP, Fort Worth, is the lather of a baby girl. TACK MERDIAX, control operator 'of KQV, Pittsburgh, will marry Marie vevilacqua of Dormont, Pa. on Oct. :ORGE McELWAIX, of the XBC .:neering department, San Fran1. and Miss Violet Weaver of that . eloped to Reno, Aug. 29. NBC -'ineer Dave Kennedy and his wife A re witnesses. FRANCIS RIES, of KXBY, Kansas C:ry. has been transferred from the transmitter to the studios as control operator, and Ed Crane, former laboratory instructor at First National : Television, has been named chief operator at transmitter. HARRY L. GRELCK, formerly with the International Broadcasting Co., recently joined NBC's New York engineering staff as a studio engineer. RALPH BENNETT, formerly of WOPI, Bristol, Tenn.. has joined the engineering staff of WFMD, Frederick, Md. JULIAN HUOK STROP, studio engineer of WRTD, Richmond, Va., left the station staff Sept. 1 to matriculate at Randolph-Macon College. MORTIMER SMITH, NBC Hollywood engineer, is the father of a 9i-pound baby boy, Richard Sewell, born Sept. 2. PAUL FRINKE, chief engineer of WJBK, Detroit, is the father ^of an S-pound baby boy, born Sept. 7. CHARLES BRENNAN, control engineer of WISN, Milwaukee, is the father of a baby boy, Thomas, born last month. Combined Use of Bands By Two Groups Refused NOW operating simultaneously daytime on the 1380 kc. frequency, KQV, Pittsburgh, and WSMK, Dayton, met rejection on the part of the FCC Sept. 7 of their application to extend the simultaneous operation from 7 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. in order to accommodate a commercial program. KQV uses 500 watts and WSMK uses 200 watts and they split time on the channel at night. The FCC explained that the half-hour extention was refused pending action on their application for simultaneous full-time operation. The Broadcast Division on the same date also rejected an application bv WKBO, Harrisburg, Pa., and WEST, Easton, Pa., 100 waiters which share the 1200 kc. frequency, and which asked for authority to operate simultaneously from il a. m. to 12 noon from Sept. 21 to Oct. 30. LETTERS Patent No. 2,092,120 covering his Radioelectric Voting System [Broadcasting. March 1] were issued by the U. S. Patent Office Sept. 7 to Xevil Monroe Hopkins, New York inventor. BROADCAST CRYSTALS & OVEN MOUNTINGS Approved by F.C.C. Write fo Bulletin G-g BLILEY ELECTRIC COMPANY One of many modern studios by JOHNS-MANVILLE AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE of co-ordinating soundcontrol work with basic studio design . . . this modern studio at WDBJ, Roanoke, Va. As in many other stations throughout the country, J-M Acoustical Engineers, using the proper J-M Sound-Control Materials and J-M Sound Isolation, were able to assure high-fidelity broadcasting by eliminating faulty acoustical conditions. Result — studios that are really designed for modern broadcasting! If you are troubled with acoustical problems, in connection with new or existing studios, why not call in a J-M Engineer? You'll find that better broadcasting quality is created and protected by designing and building studios in accordance with the present-day sound-control methods developed by Johns-Manville. For details, write Johns-Man ville, 22 E. 40th St., N. Y. C. Uohns-IVIanYillel SOUND CONTROL MATERIALS AND J ACOUSTICALENGINEERING SERVICE^ UNION STATION BUILDING ERIE, PA. BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising September 15, 1937 • Page 81