Broadcasting (July - Dec 1942)

" — and 1 also resolve to keep WFDF Flint Michigan on my list!" ^^^^^ CHNS Halifax, N. S. One-third of all the radio sets in Nova Scotia are within 25 miles of our antenna Ask JOE WEED , _ V, "Cap" Cotton says: I .ZJ^) "MEMPHIS IS THE V jJ COTTON CAPITAL OF THE WORLD AND THE INDUSTRIAL CAPITAL OF THE MID-SOUTH." Covered by 5,000 Watts Day «Jk*JU|^ i 1,000 Watts Night WIYlV ^ MEMPHIS, TENN. NBC RED NETWORK Owned and Operated by THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL Represented Nationally by THE BRANHAM CO. Vcuks a SUNDAY PUNCH in GEORQIA'S Fastest Growing Market The CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Brooc/cosfs A NEW SERIES OF WORLD-WIDE RADIO CONCERTS SATURDAYS 5 TO 6 PM.E.W.T. Over lh» Columbia Broadcasting Sytlem and Short-Wave Around the World Sponsored by Radio Station W-G-A-R Cleveland f'^ PROGRAMS To PRESENT a wartime agricultural service to agriculturalists and stock raisers in Central and Northern California, KPO, San Francisco, will dedicate a new farming feature Jan. 4. The Farmers' Digest will be built and presented five weekly 6:15-6:45 a.m. (PWT) by Henry Schacht, recently appointed director of agriculture for KPO, who will bring day-by-day changes in the national and international farming picture. The Dept. of Agriculture, the Office of War Information, the U of California College of Agriculture, the State Dept. of Agriculture, farm organizations and other agencies will be drawn upon for information. A period will be devoted especially to the rux'al housewife and her problems. Jane Lee, whose Woman's Magazine of the Air is heard daily on KPO, will present this portion of the program. From time to time farm leaders and Government officials will be interviewed. * * * Interviewing Celebrities FRANKIE BASCH, of Basch Radio Productions, New York, conducts a six-weekly program of informal talks and interviews on WHN, New York, titled Meet Frances Scott. Guests scheduled to appear on the broadcasts include Sally Victory, millinery designer; and Wilford Funk, publisher and author. Mrs. Basch is known to radio audiences as "Frances Scott", and has been heard on various network programs, including It Takes a Woman and What Burns You Up? ^ ^ ^ Quiz by Telephone TELEPHONE figures in a quiz program on WOV, New York, under the title. Do You Know The Answer? Presentation of last minute news headlines is interspersed with telephone calls to various persons chosen at random from the telephone book. Individuals are paid for answering the phone, and earn a larger sum if they know the answer to news questions put to them by Alan Courtney, known to WOV listeners as m.c. of 1280 Club. Answers to the questions are contained in statements announced during the program by Courtney. A news announcer presents the news items. ^ >H ^ Medical Dramas AS A continuation of programs heard on NBC for the past nine years under the auspices of the American Medical Assn. a series of medical dramas began on the network Dec. 26, under the title. Doctors at War. Initial broadcast stressed the importance of civilian blood donations in a drama entitled "Give your blood to a soldier". Various medical officials in the armed forces will take part in the programs. Narrator is Dr. W. W. Bauer, director of health education of the AMA. True or False? DURING an early morning sixweekly question and answer program on WLS, Chicago, Facts or Fancy, Mel Galliart, m.c, makes 15 statements, some of which are fact and others false. Every statement contains a number and prize-winning answers of listeners must have the correct total of numbers of the fact items. Rusty Gill furnishes the music and show is sponsored by Little Crow Milling Co., Warsaw, Ind., for Coco Wheats. * * Small Town Setting HOLIDAY CROWDS at Chillicothe, 0., chosen as a typical American small town, provided background for WLW's Truly American program on Dec. 19. Aired from Chillicothe's Public Square the program included Christmas Carols by 30 combined choirs of 600 voices. Program was rebroadcast at 3 a.m. Sunday over W8X0, 500-kw experimental transmitter. Recordings were made for the Office of War Information for shortwaving to troops throughout the world. Brooklyn Red Cross WEEKLY INFORMATIVE interviews on the widespread activities of the Brooklyn Red Cross are presented Tuesdays on W47NY, New York FM station, with all arrangements handled by the radio division of the chapter's public relations department, under the supervision of Elizabeth Shipman, radio chairman. After a twoweek lapse because of the holidays the series will be resumed the first week in January. ^ ^ It's Human! VARIED characteristics of human beings are discussed in new fiveweekly, five-minute program, Let's Get Acquainted, on WGN, Chicago. Program features Lee Bennett portraying the role of Dr. Blake, character analyst, whose aim is to enlighten listeners as to cause and effect of common human traits. Program is sponsored by Soy Food Mills, Chicago. Agency is Jim Duffy Inc., Chicago. * * * Shops for Listeners AN UNUSUAL service to listeners is offered by Lynne, Your Personal Shopper, who conducts the program by that name of KIDO, Boise, Ida. Miss Lynne provides rationing and conservation news and offers to shop for out-of-towners whose gas ration may not permit them to come to town to do their own. * * * Thermostat Theme WHEN a request came through recently from the WPB to announce a natural gas shortage necessitating curtailment in use of heating appliances, KOY, Phoenix, as a special event, ran a short remote to the thermostat in the building's hallway and described with appropriate remarks resetting of the instrument to 60 degrees or less. PARKED ON A MAIN Cincinnati street, WCKY's studio plane was used in a 20 hour sign-on-to-signoff drive by Rex Davis, chief announcer of the station, Mrs. Joseph Halpin and Mrs. Brown McKee, Red Cross staff workers, to boost the "Save a Life" campaign of the American Red Cross blood donor service to a new 1,800 pint weekly quota for wounded men. * * * Civilian Defense in Ohio EFFECTIVE way of relaying important defense information to the public is Irwin Johnson's Meet Joe Doakes, Civilian, series on WBNS, Columbus, O., presented in cooperation with the Ohio State Council of Defense. Important bulletins, dramatic skits, announcements and salutes to Ohio communities set in a musical frame characterize the scripts which are being sent to other Ohio stations for local adaptation. sj: ^ News for Kiddies A CHILDREN'S newscast started by CJOR, Vancouver, Junior News Round-up and Commentary, is aired Monday to Friday at 5:30 p.m. The program, designed to give children more of the news in a form that they vnll understand, is under the direction of Nina Anthony of CJOR staff, and has been commended by the Parent-Teachers Assn. and the British Columbia Minister of Education. ^ % H= Food in the Spotlight A TIMELY program for homemakers is the Saturday morning series, Food Goes to War, on WTMJ, Milwaukee, featuring Ethel Morrison Marsden, a food authority who suggests how to prepare and serve various meats, vegetables, canned foods and substitutes for rationed foods and beverages. ' Broadcasters! 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