Broadcasting (Jan - June 1942)

Army Needs SPOT announcements last week were used foi the first time to recruit glider pilots. Through the cooperation of the NAB, all arrangements were made with the Army to be able to handle glider pilot recruits promptly. Other urgent Army personnel needs are for radio repairmen from 18 to 44 years of age. *: WUe^ B id UlSVR SYRACUSE HAWAII will resume broadcasts of America's Town Meeting of the Air, weekly BLUE program, accordiiif; to a letter received from KGU, Honolulu, by George V. Denny, president of Town Hall, New York, and moderator of the forum. Recordings of the weekly broadcasts will be forwarded by Clipper to KGU regularly by BLUE, with advance material on programs furnished by Town Hall. DESIGNED to exhibit staff talent and production technique, the KIRO Reviews of KIRO, Seattle, presents program ideas to demonstrate possibilities as porgram series. What's What in the Northwest, a quiz show, opened the previews. KEX, Portland, Ore., participated in the city's Maritime Day celebration, by transcribing the launching of three ships at various Portland shipyards during the day and then rebroadcasting the discs together in the evening. COPIES of transcriptions recorded in Gallup, N. M., by Nancy Grey, women's commentator of WTMJ, Milwaukee, in which she describes actual Navajo Indian chants and ceremonies are to be placed in the archives of the Library of Congress. Likewise the Santa Fe Railroad is making additional copies in connection with its plans for travelogues of the Southwest. Miss Grey travels each year to different localities for such recordings for her WTMJ programs. PAUL H. RAYMER CO., NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE Page 46 • June I, 1942 EDGAR KOBAK, executive vicepresident of the BLUE (right), presents a scholarship from the network to Vice-President H. H. Davis, of Ohio State U — the scholarship to be awarded to the most deserving student now studying music at the University. Creation of the scholarship was announced at the Institute for Education by Radio, held recently at Columbus, by Ohio State U. FOR THE best suggestions submitted to the Suggestion Committee of WOR, New York, in April, Etta Trust, secretary to "Uncle Don", and Artie Ross, assistant to Jerry Lawrence, m.c, won $5 each. Etta Trust suggested a more economical method of mailing press photographs, and Ross submiltted a plan to facilitate the filing of news bulletins. OUT-OF-TOWN games played by the Nashville Volunteers in the Southern Association are aired by WSIX, Nashville, with George B. Reeves, describing the g^ames from a ticker. SoconyVacuum sponsors the broadcasts through its agency, J. Stirling Getchell, Kansas City. CONCERT MUSIC by Latin American composers will be heard in a weekly recorded series starting on WQXR, New York, with Henry Cowell, American composer, acting as commentator. Title is Composers of Latin America. WGCM, Gulfport, Miss., broadcast recently the first of a new series, Service With A Smile, from the Service Club at Keesler Field, Biloxi. Programs utilize the talents of former radio and concert stars now on duty at that technical training school of the Air Force. KLZ, Denver, has again obtained exclusive rights to band broadcasts from the local Lakeside Park. First band featured is Henry Busse's. KLZ, Denver, furthering its policy of capitalizing on talent in the service, has added two more programs from military posts. One, Logantime, portrays the history of Ft. Logan, while the other broadcast is from Lowry Field featuring an octet and Bob Bradley, former KLZ and CBS vocalist. Now You Tell One! Advertisers by the score are telling their story over WAIR. NOW YOU TELL ONE. When you check results, you're mighty likely to say "It ain't so!" WAIR Winston-Salem, North Carolina TO VARY the routine of filling mailbags and licking postage stamps, the boys in the mailroom at NBC formed a choral group. Perhaps they thought they might get somewhere in radio. The boys — all under 23 — arranged a few poems, such as "The Congo," by Vachel Lindsay, and "The Highwaymen," by Alfred Noyes. The musical mail dispatchers landed two auditions at Carnegie Hall and a program on CURC, New York, Columbia U station, after three months' practice. WHAT and WPEN, Philadelphia, recently matched their bowling teams, made up of staff members of the stations, with the latter team sweeping the three game set with a 2,230 pinfall against WHAT's 1,833. Bill Briner, WPEN bowling commentator, lead the ten pin spilling with a 199 game560 set, while John Kolbman, sportscaster, hit a 200 game-492 set for the losers. Details were broadcast by WHAT with the bowlexs alternating in the description between boxes. A series of such future matches is planned to be aired by WHAT. EMPLOYES of the NBC program department, together with heads of various other divisions of the network, gave a cocktail party recently on the 67th floor of the RCA Bldg. in honor of C. L. Menser, NBC program manager, and his bride, the former Irene Sexton. The couple also received a silver cofCee service from the program department staff. OPENING the drive for 10,000 new Navy men from the Chicago area, Americans At the Ramparts, half-hour on MBS from WGN. Chicago, will salute the Navy by broadcasting four weekly programs and spot announcements in the enlistment drive which will be climaxed by a mass induction in Soldiers Field during the July 4 American Legion celebration. REPORTS on the progress of war fronts and production lines constitutes the basis of Let's Fight, heard thnceweekly over WTAG, Worcester. Dramatic narration is provided by Clive Davis, of the announcing staff, with martial music at interludes. SIX BRITISH evacuee children will broadcast to their parents in England from the studios of WIP, Philadelphia, in two special programs scheduled for June 5 and 12. The programs will be heard locally and directed to shortwave listeners in the British Isles through WRUL, Boston. WBEI, Boston, to keep members of its staff now in the armed forces acquainted with activities of the station, is mimeographing a letter about its personnel and current happenings. Letter, in addition to being mailed to the servicemen, is also distributed as a house organ. Sign NABET Pacts KFI-KECA, Los Angeles, has signed a National Assn. of Broadcast Engineers & Technicians (NABET) contract covering entire technical staff of the two stations. Contract provides wage increases. Engineering personnel of WOW, Omaha, formerly independently afiiliated, has also joined NABET. 630 KG. 5000 WATTS DAY AND NIGHT BLUE NETWORK BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising