Broadcasting (July - Dec 1938)

NBC Ending Work At Hollywood Site To Be Finished in December; San Francisco to Be Next FINISHING touches on NBC Hollywood Radio City, the network's 1 new RCA equipped western division headquarters at Sunset Blvd. and Vine St., will be completed in early December when the general | public will be admitted on regular escorted tours through the building, according to Don E. Gilman, j vice-president. Although the entire working ; personnel of the organization has been moved into the three-story executive building and programs are being broadcast from the vari , ous studios with the general public admitted by ticket, workmen are expected to be on the job for several weeks. The organ studio is ' still to be finished. San Francisco Plans Several weeks are required for adjustment of the air-conditioning plant and final completion of the basement which will house the $10,000 RCA special equipment display and NBC exhibit. This will form part of the escorted tour. The terrazzo lobby floor is to be refinished and walls remain to be painted. A 25 x 40 foot mural, The Spirit of Radio, executed by Ed Trumbull, Connecticut artist, after several weeks delay, has been installed in the main foyer of the ' building over the master control room, which is open to public view. Besides the executive building, NBC Hollywood Radio City contains four large theatre auditoriums and four small studios [Broadcasting, Nov. 1]. With occupancy of the new Hollywood quarters, it is expected that Mr. Gilman will turn his attention to San Francisco and select a new building to house the network's studios and executive offices. NBC has occupied its present San Francisco quarters at 111 Sutter St. since 1927, and it is understood the network will spend more than $500,000 on its new project, getting under way shortly after the first of next year. Lloyd E. Yoder is NBC San Francisco manager and operating director of KPO and KGO. Kentucky Educators REPRESENTATIVES of radio stations and educational institutions throughout Kentucky met Nov. 5 at WHAS, Louisville, to form a committee on radio in edu , cation, and elected Elmer G. Sulzer, director of radio at the i University of Kentucky, as chairman. Morton Grodzins, University of Louisville, was elected secretary. Aims of the committee will be to I educate persons engaged in preparing educational broadcasts for ; schools, colleges and similar institutions on the methods and limitations of radio in education and to advise stations on the educational worth of programs offered them. Preparation of a booklet was discussed, and the next tentative meeting date was set for January. RECORDINGS of the eight Shakespearean dramas broadcast by CBS during the summer of 1937 will be permanently preserved in the National Archives in Washington, D. C. Spots f or Vovox HYDROSAL Co., Cincinnati (Vovox vanishing cream), will soon start a test campaign of spot announcements in two or three markets with plans for expansion, according to M. H. Petersen, radio director of H. W. Kastor & Sons Adv. Co., which recently acquired the account. 18 On Cocomalt List R. B. DAVIS Co., Hoboken, N. J. (Cocomalt), is running a late fall campaign of one-minute transcribed announcements twice daily, five days a week on 18 stations. No addition to the list is contemplated at present. J. M. Mathes, New York, is in charge. WHEN, as and if King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England visit America next summer, NBC, CBS and MBS plan to carry complete broadcasts of different events which may be scheduled for the Royal pair both in this country and in Canada. Definite plans will be made after the royal itinerary is completed. THE BACH TEMPEST Settles Back in Its Teapot After FCC Letter DISCLAIMING power to prevent broadcast stations from performing classical music in swing style, the Federal Communications Commission has advised Alfred L. Dennis, president of the Bach Society of New Jersey, to complain to stations about the matter. Chairman Frank R. McNinch told Mr. Dennis that "evidence of the transmission of material contrary to the public interest or in violation of law" is considered in renewing licenses but he pointed out limitations imposed on the FCC by statute. Roy Harris, noted American classical composer, took a different slant in writing to Mr. Dennis, recalling that long before Bach's time there were outbursts against composers who dared to attempt new styles. He added Bach himself turned out some jaunty and dissonant numbers. NBC Gets Court Order Enjoining Jersey Board REFUSING to acknowledge the authority of the Public Utility Commission of New Jersey over erection of a broadcasting transmitter in that state, NBC has obtained from Judge Philip Forman of U. S. District Court in Trenton an order requiring the Commission to show cause why it should not be enjoined from acting against NBC. Hearing will be held in December. NBC was ordered to appear before the Commission when it failed to ask permission to construct a transmitter for a shortwave station, W2XDG, at Bound Brook, for which the network had received a construction permit from the FCC, under an old New Jersey law giving the state body power over broadcasting [Broadcasting, Oct. 1]. NBC claims that the law is invalid,' as all regulation of radio belongs to Congress and is not a matter for State concern. OURS PER. 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