Broadcasting (Jan - June 1940)

GUY C. HICKOK, director of NBC's international division, looks over the shoulder of Hudson Hawley, news editor, in the division's new quarters in the RCA Bldg., New York, where the international staff is now quartered in a single room. The staff of 38 linguists, newsmen and clerks prepare scripts for the 16 hours of daily broadcasts in six languages NBC's two shortwave transmitters send out to the world. First Anniversary CELEBRATING the completion of its first full year of regularly scheduled telecasting on May 1, NBC put on a 2% -hour variety program including popular and operatic vocalists; tap and ballet dancing; a fashion show co-sponsored by Franklin Simon & Co., department store, and Lentheric Inc., perfumer; a kaleidoscopic interlude; a dramatic sketch; a Walt Disney cartoon, "The Ugly Duckling", and a minstrel show staged by NBC guides and pages. Program was opened with a short speech by Alfred H. Morton, vice-president in charge of television; Ray Perkins acted as m.c. and Ray Forest announced the program, which lacked only an outside sports pickup to represent all types of entertainment televised during the past year. Farnsworth Convention ) FARNSWORTH television equipment and electronic devices, includ3 ing the company's traveling telei vision demonstration unit which since last September has played in 1 50 cities, will be brought from the Fort Wayne plant to Chicago June 3-4 for display before dealers of Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp., holding their sales convention in the Edgewater Beach Hotel. Pierre Boucheron, general sales manager, reported that not only will the company's new line of receivers be announced, but Farnsworth will make important announcements regarding FM and television equipment. ACA Locals' New Paper ACA LOCALS 16 and 28, New York and Philadelphia, have combined and enlarged their monthly bulletins into a monthly publication, Broadcast World, to be published in Philadelphia and mailed free to every broadcasting station in the United States. The publication is "to disseminate information leading to better working conditions, better hours and higher wages for all those employed in the broadcast industry," and will be supervised by Leonard F. Ohl, first vice-president of the ACA broadcast division, and Louis E. Littlejohn, president of Local 28. CONTROI DOOM MAJ. EDWIN H. ARMSTRONG, Columbia U professor and pioneer radio inventor, was scheduled to give a demonstration of FM, his newest development, before the Cleveland Advertising Club May 15 under the auspices of WHK-WCLB. Arrangements were made by H. K. Carpenter, vice-president of the stations, and E. L. Gove, technical supervisor. LARRY WEST, technician at KSFO, San Francisco, on May 4 married Mary Alyce Whieldon in Hollywood. GRAHAM TEVIS, for the last 12 years chief engineer of KMOX, St. Louis, and who has shifted to CBS in New York, was guest of honor at a KMOX staff party late in April. Merle S. Jones, KMOX general manager, presented an engraved wrist watch to Tevis on behalf of the KMOX staff. GORDON FAIRWEATHER, formerly of CKWX, Vancouver, B. C, has joined the engineering staff of CFAC, Calgary, Alta. Loy Owens, formerly of CFCT, Victoria, B. C, and CKLN, Nelson, B. C, has joined CKWX. CLIFFORD GORSUCH, formerly with WMBS, Uniontown, Pa., WJLS, Beckley, W. Va., and WCHS, Charleston, W. Va., has been named chief engineer of the new WSLB, Ogdensburg, N. Y., which went on the air in mid-April. Leo H. Thompson is his assistant. J. M. MIDDLEBROOKS, CBS construction engineer, addressing a meeting of fifty network engineers in New York April 29, augmented his talk with the showing of "New Tower — New Power", a 30-minute film showing construction of a modern broadcast transmitter, taken by Philip G. Lasky now manager of KROW, Oakland, Cal. KENNETH COX, formerly with Western Electric Co. and WNOX, Knoxville. has joined the engineering staff of WKRC, Cincinnati. PAUL KALBFLBISCH, formerly of WGIL, Galesburg, 111., has joined the engineering staff of WMBD, Peoria. GILBERT McDonald, engineer of WOV, New York, has been named control supervisor of the station, replacing Walter A. Graham, who, because of ill-health, has requested a transfer to the WOV transmitter at Kearney, N. J. Karl Neuwirth, transmitter supervisor of WOV, is the father of a girl born recently. HARRY R. LUBCKE, television director of Don Lee Broadcasting System, Los Angeles, has been granted U. S. Patent No. 2,185,640 covering optical apertures for television use. Means are also shown in the patent application for insuring accurate time relation between synchronizing and image pulsations. DON CREED, CBS Hollywood sound effects engineer, has recovered from injuries received when the car in which he was riding crashed into a tree. Fly Praises Hams JAMES L. FLY, chairman of the FCC, on May 12 broadcast a brief talk on CBS paying tribute to the amateur radio operators who are members of the Susquehanna Emergency Network for their fine work during flood and other emergencies in the Susquehanna Valley. Mr. Fly's talk was heard on a special half-hour program featuring the regular monthly driU of the S. E. N. s oprano • A shrill "yip^' yip^" a deep, booming bark are transmitted with equal accuracy on today's network programs . . . because special telephone circuits, developed by the Bell System, link the nation's radio stations . . . because modern equipment and trained men protect the sensitive sound all the way. Behind the scenes, in the Bell Telephone Laboratories^ skilled scientists are working carefully and constantly on. facilities that will deliver still finer programs tomorrow. RCA Institutes Technical Press has just issued a 450-page volume of technical papers by RCA engineers on the various phases of "Radio at UltraHigh Frequencies". BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising May 15, 1940 • Page 77