Broadcasting (July - Dec 1943)

NEW RELAY SYSTEM IN WESTERN CANADA THREE NEW Relay Transmitters known as the Cariboo Network, were opened Aug. 13 by Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in British Columbia, with CBC general manager Dr. James S. Thomson on the inaugural program. The transmitters are CBRL, Williams Lake; CBRQ, Quesnel; and CBRG, Prince George, all three being on the Eraser River in mountainous territory not served by other broadcasting stations. British Columbia is the first province to try this new coverage technique, and with the new installations will have perhaps the best coverage of any part of Canada, it is claimed. The CBC has six other relay transmitters operating in the southern section of the province, and another is located at the other end of the Dominion CBA at Edmondston, N.B. The transmitters are licensed for an output of 20 w, one-third of their capacity. They are built as self-contained units, with each section of the transmitter easily replaced as a unit in case of breakdown. The transmitters were built in Vancouver by CBC engineers under Norman Olding, regional engineer, F.B.C. Hilton, chief operator. They operate unattended. While the normal range of a 20 watt transmitter is about 15 miles, these transmitters carry considerably farther because of their location in telegraph offices, the radio impulses being carried along the telegraph lines far outside their normal range. Lever Resumes LEVER BROS., Cambridge, Mass. (Swan soap), following a summer hiatus, on Aug. 31 resumes the weekly 30-minute Burns & Allen Show on approximately 118 CBS stations, Tuesday, 9-9:30 p.m. (EWT). Besides George Burns and Gracie Allen, continuing in talent line-up are Jimmy Cash, vocalist; Elvia Allman, Clarence Nash, Hans Conreid and Mel Blanc, comedians. Felix Mills has been signed as musical director. He replaces Paul Whiteman, now BLUE musical director. Bill Goodwin has been resigned as announcer-comedy stooge. Writers include William Burns, Keith Fowler, Frank Galen, Paul Henning. Carroll O'Meara is Hollywood producer of Young & Rubicam, agency servicing the soap account. tr< Dr. Rosenthal Named R. A. H. ROSENTHAL, eleconic engineer previously connected with Scophony Ltd. of London, has been appointed director of research and development of Scophony Corp. of America under a three-year contract, Arthur Levey, president, announced last week. Company intends to manufacture television projection receivers for use in homes, schools and theatres as soon as the war is over, utilizing processes developed in England. FRITZ BLOCKI, formerly with Kenyon & Eckhardt, and with Benton & Bowles, as writer and producer, has joined J. Walter Thompson Co. as writer-director. Mr. Blocki will write for the new RCA program, What's New, starting on the BLUE Sept. 4. Edward T. Sandell EDWARD THOMAS SANDELL, 74, owner of CKTB, St. Catherines, Ont., and former director of the Canadian Assn. of Broadcasters, died suddenly in St. Catherines, Ont., Aug. 15. Born at Niagara-onthe-Lake, Ont., he was for 18 years a member of the Toronto Police department, then entered the liquor business. In 1927 he purchased the Taylor & Bates brewery in St. Catherines, Ont., and station CKTB, the Silver Spire radio station, one of the assets of the brewing company. He was active in the management of the station and in the affairs of Canadian private broadcasters. He was a widely-known sportsman, an ardent golfer and supporter of hockey, lacrosse and baseball teams, playing a prominent part in the athletic life of the Niagara Peninsula. Carl M. Snyder CARL M. SNYDER, 48, assistant manager of the Appliance & Merchandise Department of General Electric Co., died Aug. 14 in the New Haven Hospital after an illness of several months. With G-E since 1930, Mr. Snyder was the prime mover in the trend towards complete electric kitchens as well as a pioneer in the ensemble selling of equipment for completely electrified homes. He was in charge of sales and sales activities for the full line of G-E appliances throughout the country. A wife and two children survive. Reginald R. Gaisford REGINALD CHARLES GAISFORD, director and general manager of Vickers & Benson, advertising agency of Toronto and Montreal, died at Montreal August 14. In addition to the advertising field he was well known in Canadian sporting circles, having been a football player on the famous Ottawa Rough Riders team in his younger days. Albert Moss ALBERT MOSS, 61, executive vice-president of the Standard Rate & Data Service, New York advertising service agency, died Aug. 15 in French Hospital, New York. Formerly associated with Wilson & Co., Chicago, Mr. Moss came to New York in 1920 as general manager of Standard Rate & Data's New York office. Back to Theatre THE WLS, Chicago, National Barn Dance moves back to Chicago's Eighth St. Theatre, Sept. 11, after originating its broadcasts since Sept. 5, 1942, from Chicago's Civic Theatre. The Army Air Force Technical Training Command took possession of the Eighth St. Theatre last year to hold various entertainments for the men training at its school in the Stevens Hotel. Both the hotel and the theatre are now evacuated by the AFTTC. GRACIE FIELDS, now entertaining the armed forces in England, will go to North Africa to perform for British and American troops she announced during a recent shortwave program carried on Mutual. The comedienne returns to this country to start a program on Mutual for Pall Mall Cigarettes, Oct. 11. 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