Broadcasting (Jan - June 1942)

WFIL Code Lessons RECOGNIZING the urgent need of the Navy for men experienced in sending and I'eceiving code, WFIL, Philadelphia, is establishing a class in which young men of draft age will be given an opportunity to learn code sending and receiving along the lines laid down by Naval authorities. These classes will be conducted by WFIL engineers, who have volunteered their services. Roger W. Clipp, vice-president and general manager, has volunteered the use of studio facilities, also providing typewriters, telegraph keys, equipment for automatic tape transmission and receiving. The course will be under the constant supervision of qualified Naval officers. The class is expected to require approximately eight weeks of training on the basis of two classes per week. No. 6 of a Series Nova Scotia's Half Billion Lumber Cut J AST year Nova Scotia came close to setting a new peal< for forest production with a total of 536.6 million board feet — a little less than the 540 million mark of 1936. Known forest areas ore estimated at ten million acres. Nova Scotia has ample raw material, icefree harbours, cheap transportation and intelligent labour. Recent Nova Scotia developments in the manufacture of pulp, newsprint and yeast have been markedly successful. Investigate! NOVA SCOTIA Radio Broadcasting Station CHNS HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA CANADA VIDEO VIEWS are these life-size blowups of CBS television cameramen in action, being displayed in two large show windows of the U. S. Rubber Co. Bldg. in Radio City, New York. Built around the theme of rubber conservation, the idea was inspired by a recent CBS television program presented by U. S. Rubber and the OEM. BROADCASTING AND THE WAR Libel, Promotions, Shop Talk, Draft Among Topics on Mind of Mikeman in Army EDITOR, Broadcasting: Some misinformed publicity writer of some local station must have informed you I was in the Navy because a recent issue said I was. I'm not going to sue but the Navy might. While I'm getting you straightened out on me, I thought you might find space for word of other radio men now in the service. Sidney Tremble, former program director at KSAL, Salina, Kansas, is a yeoman third class in the Navy, doing public relations work in Kansas City. Phil Rush, former KSAL announcer, recently was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army (Cavalry) and is stationed at Ft. Riley, Kan. Jim Lantz, former KSAL and KVOR, Colorado Springs announcer, was recently commissioned a second lieutenant in the field artillery and is stationed as an instructor at the field artillery school in Ft. Sill, Okla. Willard Daughterty, known on the air at WKBN, Youngstown, as Will Douglas is a staff sergeant in the Army, doing public relations work for the Air Corps at Duncan Field, Tex. Me, I'm a private, first class (which ranks just under a second lieutenant) at the reception center, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., doing personnel work. Thanks for keeping BROADCASTING so interesting and so full of the things about the business we in the service want to know about. It's like being in the whirl again just to pick up a copy. DON BRICE, Pvt. 1 cl. Hdqs. Co., RC#1773 Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. P. S.— Sign of the Times: A letter from a radio station to a former announcer in the Army: "We've hired another new announcer. He only has one eye but he's a grand guy!" Chicago Video Steps THE Balaban & Katz Chicago television station, W9XBK. under the supervision of William G. I-Cddy, is completing installation of equipment necessary to operate iu conformance with FCC commercial television requirements. Station, which has an FCC application pending for a commercial license, has completed its antenna atop the State-Lake Bldg., remodeled the studios, installed new cameras and cables, and is now testing with 4,000 watts power video and 1,000 watts FM audio. NBC, CBS Reduce Time For New York Television IN ACCORDANCE with the new FCC regulations on television issued May 12, specifying minimum transmission of four hours weekly in place of the 15 hours a week formerly required, NBC and CBS have sharply curtailed the operating schedules of their New York television transmitters, WNBT and WCBW, respectively, the former to six hours a week, the latter to four hours weekly [Broadcasting, May 18]. Beginning May 25, WNBT dropped all programs except the air warden training course presented by the New York Police Department for the instruction of the city's air warden service which is telecast 12 times weekly. Following the conclusion of the sixweek course, WNBT expects to decrease its programs to the required four hours a week. To avoid duplication of service during the limited hours of operation, CBS has scheduled its television programs for Thursday and Friday evenings, from 8 to 10. The WCBW programs include Red Cross instruction, a news review and roundtable discussions. Video Firm's Lease METROPOLITAN TELEVISION Inc., jointly owned by the New York department store Bloomingdale's and Abraham Straus, Brooklyn, has leased the penthouse and a large part of the 22d floor of 654 Madison Ave., New York, to house the studios and offices for its FM, station. The studios will be located in the penthouse, while the control room will be located on the terrace, surrounding the studio on three sides. Executive offices will be on the 22d floor, and as previously announced, the transmitter will be constructed on top of the Hotel Pierre, Fifth Ave. and 59th St. WTSP Appointments PROMOTION of Harnold Falconnier to program director of WTSP, St. Petersburg, Fla., was announced last week by Manager Robert O. Wilbur. Mr. Wilbur also 'I'sclosed the naming of Mrs. Francis W. La Grange, formerly assistant program director, to traffic manager of WTSP, and the placing of Burl McCarty, standby announcer of the station, as a regular announcer. Trendler's March Adopted ROBERT TRENDLER, musical director of Americans at the Ramparts, MBS series, who has written marches for several branches of the U. S. military service, has had his "On Guard Every Minute", adopted as the official song of the Illinois Reserve Militia. Trendler's compositions have been heard on the new series of programs, which ^salute a branch of the armed forces each week. 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