Broadcasting (Jan - June 1940)

I NOT A suburban residence but a transmitter house is this edifice built tby WBZ, Boston, at nearby Hull for its new 50,000-watt transmitter, •across the harbor from Boston, with the transmitter beamed on the city. OLIVE KACKLEY, director of the ' Community Opportunities Service of ii WCKY, Cincinnati, has been appoint' ed second "goodwill ambassador" for the station by L. B. Wilson, president 'and general manager. In announcing the appointment, Mr. Wilson stated that the work of the original "WCKY ; goodwill ambassador", Milton Bacon, ' has been received so enthusiastically that he is now booked almost solidly two months in advance for talks in neighboring communities. Miss Kackley will continue to direct the community opportunity work in conjunction with her speaking appearances. As a public service feature WCKY offers gratis speaking appearances by Miss Kackley and Mr. Bacon to schools and other community groups. WNAX, Yankton, S. D., has started originating its Junior Kwiz show from the stage of the Orpheum Theater in Sioux City, la., where it maintains branch studios. Cooperating in production of the weekly quiz feature, conducted by Susan Taylor and offering small cash prizes to contestants for answering academic questions, the theatre has designed special backdrops and other props, along with special costumes, to give a schoolhouse atmosphere. CONDUCTED by Phil Edwards of the Philadelphia Zoo, the Jungle Journal broadcast weekly from the zoo grounds over WPEN features talks on animal life and interviews persons prominent in game hunting. Visitors to the zoo are quizzed on their reactions, with special WPEN tickets given away at the mike. THE Spring Party of the WPEN ' Women's Service Club, Philadelphia, ■ will be held April 25 in the WPEN auditorium. Prizes will be provided by station sponsors. Director of the Club and its daily program is Mabel Love. SOME 100,000 movie fans overran I Lawrence, Kan., during the world premiere April 4 of the Republic film "Dark Command", covered by WREN. Verl Bratton, WREN manager, directed radio publicity for the premiere, attended by stars of the historic film. The station built a platform at the railway station to welcome visiting stars, with Millard Ireland, special events man, handling the mike. RUDI NEUBAUER, cashier, has been elected president of the NBC-Chicago Athletic Association for the coming year. Other new officers include Bob Brown, first vice-president ; Marshall Rife, second vice-president ; Loretta Cooney, secretary ; and Lincoln Douglass, treasurer. Neubauer succeeds M. R. Schoenfeld. CBS has added two sustaining programs to its schedule of Sunday afternoon broadcasts for the 5-6 period. The first half-hour, titled Choose Up Sides, features famous athletes and commentators in quiz on all popular American sports, while the second half-hour is Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm with Maxine Sullivan and .John Kirby's Orchestra in selections of jazz "chamber music". Shifted to Sundays 8-8 :30 p.m. is the Concert in Rhythm program of music by Raymond Scott's Orchestra, formerly heard on CBS Tuesday evenings. DESCRIBED as the oldest continuous commercial program in the Southeast is Good Ship Treasure Chest, now entering its 11th year on WIS, Columbia, S. C, under guidance of "Skipper" Leo Downs. KSTP, St. Paul, believes that it set a record for sponsored sports broadcasts with the recent airing of the State High School League's basketball tournament. With Bob Murphy at the mike, station handled nearly 60 broadcast hours under sponsorship of Minnesota Ford Dealers. KSTP fed nine games to a network of seven stations. COLORED populace is siven program representation on WMAZ, Macon, Ga., with a half-hour broadcast Of Netos & Interest to Colored People. Cooperation was arranged by E. K. Cargill, WMAZ, manager, and Wilton E. Cobb, secretary-treasurer, in a meeting with leading colored citizens. WHN, New York, on April 10 started a 13-week sustaining series of halfhour plays based on stories which have appeared in Story magazine. Titled Tonight's Best Story, the program is heard Tuesdays, 9-9 :30 p.m.. produced by Peter Witt, editor of Story. PLAYS which have had a definite part in the development of radio writing and producing technique are presented on the weekly experimental series of programs Landmarks of Radio Drama on NBC-Red, under the direction of Joseph S. Bell. DURING April, radio stations, throughout the country are presenting special broadcasts in the interests of the 13th annual campaign of the National Tuberculosis Assn. WTAR, Norfolk, Va., claimed a scoop for its coverage of the local crasli of a Navy scouting plane. Blair Bubanks, WTAR announcer, was one of the first on the scene, and made the call for the ambulance and crash wagon, with WTAR giving first news of the accident to the public. HIGHLIGHTS in the history of Iowa counties are dramatized by the Iowa Agricultural Conservation committee for the weekly WHO, Des Moines, County Pioneers program. Closing minutes of each broadcast are devoted to current farm news. WSIX 7enne^dee ^^^^ 1.1 AND IRWIN A. JOHNSON, director of development programs of WBNS, Columbus, O., in an article, "The Fourth 'R' " in Educational Method magazine for February, advances advice to educators on how to take advantage of radio's expanding educational sphere. NATIONAL Catholic Education Assn., at its 37th annual convention in Kansas City on March 29, endorsed the classroom use of the CBS American School of the Air broadcasts through a resolution praising "this modern method of teaching". A. demonstration of classroom use of the program was made before the convention by Kenneth L. Graham, educational director of KMBC, Kansas City. KLO, Ogden, Utah, has started a new series of weekly programs broadcast direct from the Weber College auditorium and produced entirely by students of the school. STUDENTS of Ohio State U in Dr. Norval N. Luxon's radio newswriting course in the school of journalism process news for two daily quarter-hour broadcasts, remoted from the Journalism Building, on WOSU, university station in Columbus. Processing is done in the Ohio State Lantern newsroom, served by a UP teletype. The journalism school and WOSU divide cost of the UP service. Broadcasts are handled by John N. 'Traxler and Wib Pettegrew. INSTRUCTION, for Boy Scouts in all branches of radio has been started by KSFO, San Francisco. The course is scheduled for six weeks with an award for the best performance in all phases on an actual broadcast at the conclusion of the series. KVOO, Tulsa, has started a quarterhour feature. The KVOO Farm Profit Bureau, aired each weekday noon, consisting of farm news and market reports from the extension department of Oklahoma A. & M. College. Another new program is the weekly half-hour Tulsa Junior C. of C. Safety Quie, under the supervision of the Tulsa police department. Teams representing Tulsa business concerns are chosen to answer questions on traffic and pulilic safety. High scoring team at the end of the series will receive a plaque. Eddie Coontz is m.c. FACILITIES for training in radio have been installed in the new $275,000 journalism building of the U of Minnesota, which will be dedicated May 2-4. Modern soundproof studios and control room separated by glass partitions from the classrooms make possible class observations. It is planned to have the daily newscast, currentl.v emanating from the Minneapolis studios of WLB, originate in the new studios. A SERIES of 15 radio scripts on city government is available free to school and civic groups upon application to the U. S. Office of Education. headley-Reed Co., National Representative WGAL Dedication CIVIC leaders, gathered for the dedication of the new studios of WGAL, Lancaster, Pa., on April 5, paid tribute to the services contributed in the past by the station. The dedicatory address was delivered by Mayor D. E. Gary, who was introduced by Col. J. Hale Steinman, president of the Mason-Dixon Radio Group, which includes WGAL. The exercises, which were broadcast from '8 to 9 p.m., were in charge of Clair R. McCoUough, general manager of the MasonDixon Radio Group, and Walter 0. Miller, WGAL manager. School Scripts of CBS To Be Used for Plays COOPERATING with CBS, Junior Programs Inc. during the 1940-41 school year will include in its repertoire dramatizations drawn from the CBS American School of the Air. The organization will present the plays before an estimated 1,000,000 school children during the year in the course of a tour reaching every section of the country. Casts of professional actors will stage the plays. Among the productions to be taken on tour are selections from the Tales From Far & Near literature series, the New Horizons geography and science programs and others from a new CBS series on American workers. All the plays will have a Latin-American theme, in line with the recently announced CBS plan of extending its air school to all Western Hemisphere countries. Three years ago CBS cooperated with Junior Programs in a weekly dramatic series. Legends of the Western World. Junior Programs is a non-commercial enterprise established and directed by Mrs. Dorothy L. McFadden for producing cultural entertainment for young people. NEVILLE MILLER, president of the NAB, will introduce Phillips Carlin, NBC eastern program director, as guest speaker on the April 35 program of New York University's Diplomas and Jobs series on WNYC, New York's municipal station. Mr. Carlin will discuss "What Kind of Opportunity does Radio Offer the young Job Seeker?" and will be quizzed by a recent NYU graduate who is looking for employment in broadcast and by Richard Pack, also an NYU graduate, now in charge of continuity for WNYC. WPEN PHI LA . 1000 WATTS BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising April 15, 1940 • Page 79