Broadcasting (Jan - June 1942)

iCONTROl 1 ROOM BORIS C. MOMIROFF. who directed construction of the transmitter for WTTM, Trenton, N. J., and who also was with WWDC. Washington, and WSAZ, Huntington, W. Va. has joined "NYHN. New York, as engineer. O. Edewaard, formerly operator at the rt. Lauderdale, Fla., olBce of Eastern Air Lines, and at WFTL, same city, has also joined WHN's engineering staff. BLAIR K. THRON, chief engineer of WTTM, Trenton, and WFPG, Atlantic City, is the father of a baby boy. CHARLES R. DUKE, formerly chief engineer of WHUB, Cookeville, Tenn., has joined the engineering staff of WSIX, NashviUe. D. R. FITCH, former engineer of WOAI, San Antonio, has joined the staff of NBC-Chicago as a temporary studio engineer. FRED PRIEST of Watertown, N. Y., has joined WWNY, that city, as a control operator. WILLIAM LORAINY and Joseph Benonis have joined the engineering staff of WFIL, Philadelphia. Mr. Lorainy came from WGBI, Scranton, Pa., and Mr. Benonis from WAZL, Hazelton, Pa. H. B. (BUD) SBABROOK, chief engineer of CJOR, Vancouver, recently reported to the RCA research department for the duration. S. ROBERT MORRISON, chief engineer of WMRN, Marion, O., has also been named assistant general manager of the station. DWIGHT A. MYER, chief engineer of KDKA, Pittsburgh, has been appointed radio aide of the executive council of the Allegheny County Council of Defense. R. L. LEE, new to radio, has joined the engineering staff of WRDW, Augusta, Ga. MILBURN H. STUCKWISH, chief engineer of WSOY, Decatur, 111., has joined the Signal Corps and will report to the U of Illinois for six months' engineering work. CARL McGEE, formerly chief engineer at KTRI, Sioux City, la., has joined the engineering staff of KOWII, Omaha. Hams, Beware ! THE JUNE issue of QST , radio amateur journal, advises amateurs hearing "fishy" radio signals which they believe to be of alien nature to communicate w^ith the nearest FCC monitoring station giving frequencies, station characteristics, time of broadcasts, etc. Also, QST says, if the amateur is approached by any one who requests suspicious operation of his set, he should keep the proposer dangling and contact the nearest Federal Bureau of Investigation branch. REX ACKLEY, former engineer of WCAE, Pittsburgh, is new chief transmitter engineer of WJAC, Johnstown, Pa. ROY HANNAN, formerly material expediter of North American Aviation Corp., Inglewood, Cal., has been made traffic manager of Universal Microphone Co., that city. TED FISCHER, engineer of WIBX, Utica, N. Y., has left for training as a Navy radio technician. MARGERY WEBSTER, NYA radio school graduate, has joined the control staff of WLNH, Laconia, N. H. Miss Webster, who will also be an announcer, succeeds Lew Israel who will enter the service June 2. DAN O'BRIEN, Peter Saveskie and James Gough, engineers of WOKO, Albany, N. Y., are to leave soon for military service. JOE HANDCHETZ, formerly an engineer at WHAT, Philadelphia, has joined the staff of W49PH, WIP's Philadelphia adjunct. CHARLES HUGHES, new to broadcasting, has joined WWVA, Wheeling, as control operator. HAROLD RISSLER, studio engineer at WHO, Des Moines, joined the Army May 23. JACK NEUBAUER, engineer at KLZ, Denver, has returned to work after an absence following an operation. Willis Johnson, also of the engineering staff, has resigned to install radio transmitters in ships. WHK-WCLE Changes NEW ENGINEERS of WHK-WCLE, Cleveland, are Reginald B. Sanderson, formerly of WBOE, Cleveland FM station ; Lawrence Shipley, from WGAR, Cleveland ; and George Sebbota, former shortwave amateur operator. Roy Sluhan, engineer, and James Burke, news writer, of WHKWCLE, have joined the Army. cuui RADIO STATION REPRESENTATIVES offices MONTREAL • WINNIPEG TORONTO WALTER STILES Jr., newly appointed chief engineer of WE EI, Boston, is congratulated by his predecessor, Capt. Philip K. Baldwin, now with the Army Air Force. STILES IS NAMED TOPOSTATWEEI WALTER STILES Jr., winner of the first William S. Paley Amateur Radio Award for 1936 and since July, 1937, a member of the network's general engineering department, has been appointed chief engineer of WEEI, Boston, it was announced last week by Harold E. Fellows, general manager. Securing his first license in 1927, Stiles was a Signal Corps operator from 1933 to 1935, then becoming director of radio engineering for the Pennsylvania Railroad, from which position he moved to CBS. Stationed first at the WABC transmitter at Wayne, N. J, he was transferred to Columbia Island last fall and was at the console of WABC's new transmitter when it first went on the air. In addition to his achievement of saving more than $1,000,000 worth of property through amateur radio in the 1936 spring flood at Renovo, Pa., for which he won the Paley award, Stiles has also won citations for his amateur activities from the Amateur Radio Relay League (1937) and Western Union (1940). Author of numerous technical articles, he served as technical advisor of WPAT, Paterson, N. J., during this station's first few months of operation, and assisted in the original technical study for the new KTTS, Springfield, Mo., in addition to his duties at CBS. Last November he was appointed director of communications of the Westchester County (N. Y.) Defense Council and in this capacity drew up a plan for amateur radio operation in time of war now being considered by the Defense Communications Board. BEN BURDETTE, of the technical staff of KSL, Salt Lake City, recently became the father of a girl. "WFDF is right— Flint Michigan is no one-horse town!" WMAL % •k Radio Station WMAL is now owned by the Washington Star, for more than half a century one of the leading newspapers in the United States. Since 1931 the Washington Star has led ALL newspapers in the U.S. each year in TOTAL advertising lineage. •ir The same policies that have made the Washington Star the leading newspaper advertising medium are now the controlling policies of Station WMAL. ■y^ New and modern transmitter facilities in a preferred location, and increased power (from 500 watts day and 250 watts night, to 5,000 watts both day and night), have further increased WMAL's large and loyal audience. Local advertising leaders were guick to recognize and seize the opportunity. Thus WMAL now broadcasts more programs sponsored by important local advertisers than any other Washington radio station. To spot advertisers this is highly significant. Ill \M X ¥ ^^"^ Network Station W lyi 11 I in Washington, D. C. ■■ ■ ■ Trans-Lux Building 630 K. C. ★ 5,000 WATTS ^Represented Nationally by Blue Network Spot Sales Offices n New York, Chicago, Detroit, Hollywood and San Franciscc Page 44 • June J, 1942 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising