Broadcasting (July - Sept 1945)

piuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim | BIG NAMES— WITH BIGGER UNITS-MEAN | | BIGGER RESULTS WITH ASSOCIATED! j 7.IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Ililllll Illlllllllllllllllllll iiiimi Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllhi The brilliant conductor-composer-arranger, with 26 of radio's finest musicians, has already made 93 selections for Associated • another BIG reason why Associated Program Service offers MOST Hours of the Best RADIO Music! T Tow big is big-time showmanship? Big enough, we'd say, to emphasize the difference between a juke box and a broadcasting studio — and between transcribed libraries. Compare the usual trios, quartets and small band groups with Associated's BIG, brilliant units like D'Artega and his 26-piece orchestra. Compare, too, the incomparable quality of APS high fidelity vertical-cut recording and pure Vinylite discs. Write for complete facts today! Associated Program Service, 25 West 45th Street, New York 19. Asmitfed Proqwm Service Represented by Lor en Watson, J^OO Madison Ave , New York RAYTHEON GRANTED RELAY NET PERMIT RAYTHEON MFG. Co. has been granted FCC authority to erect five experimental relay stations between New York and Boston as first leg in a national microwave communications system. Stations are at New York, Bristol and Tolland, Conn., Webster and Lexington, Mass. Power will be 100 w, between 1,900 and 26,500 mc. New techniques for transmitting and relaying FM and video programs as well as other communications will be tested. An aeronautical safety system of traffic control is contemplated. Raytheon will erect two experimental FM stations, W2XRA and W2XRY, 105 and 107 mc, on top of the Lincoln Bldg., New York, where it has offices. Company has on file applications for television and FM stations in Waltham, Mass., and Chicago, as well as a video station in New York. Lohries Injured HORACE LOHNES, of the Washington law firm, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, communications attorneys, received cuts and abrasions last Monday and two car-pool passengers were injured, one seriously, when a Capital Transit Co. bus crashed into the Lohnes car on Memorial bridge. Mr. Lohnes said the traffic line had stopped when the bus plowed into the rear of his car, throwing both his passengers against the windshield and him against the steering wheel. He was on his way to his Washington office from his Virginia home. Sgt. Sheldon Coons Jr. SGT. SHELDON R. COONS Jr., 23, of the 8th Air Force was killed June 8 when his plane crashed near Llanbedr, Wales. He is the son of Sheldon R. Coons, consultant to RCA, NBC and other organizations. He enlisted in 1942 -at the end of his sophomore year at the U. of North Carolina and had been overseas for 26 months in the 231st Bombardment Group. He was on the first leg of a flight for a furlough in the U. S. when the accident occurred. REPRESENTED BY RAMBEAU doesn't mean big stations and it doesn't mean little stations. But it does mean hand-picked, carefully selected stations that want spot business and are willing to do something about it. REPRESENTED BY RAMBEAU means friendly, cooperative stations interested in making your advertising dollars pay dividends. REPRESENTED BY RAMBEAU "Radio' t Firtt Special Repremmntmtivmt" 20th-century Ffj Asks New York TJ Would Use Own Talent, Filjj In Programming Station TWENTIETH CENTURY F \ FILM Corp., New York, asked FCC last week for permit to bil a 20 kw television transmitter i| New York, desiring to take an j] tive part in development of j visual art along with large-scr J theater and color TV. Film tali] and films produced by affiliates ^ l be used for programming, al<| with other live pickups. The firm already has license j] plication pending for a TV stati in Boston, along with an exp< j mental station. None of its offic \ or principal stockholders have i\ broadcasting interest, the appli I tion indicates. Cost of General Electric vis 1 transmitter is estimated at $86,0 1 aural $64,000. Other costs indues] antenna $18,000 (without towe:] studio etc. $89,000; studio lighti \ $6,000 ; frequency and modulat \ monitors $3,500; transmitter i\ $20,000 ; transmitter building $4 j 000 ; 500-foot tower $30,000 ; stu I to transmitter, $16,000 ; porta j transmitter $45,000. Monthly op :! ating cost is estimated at $25,0 Transmitter site would be Prospect Ave. near Eagle Rc Ave., West Orange, N. J., with 5( foot tower atop a hill. Studio a office space could be rented fr< Movietone News Inc., subsidiary. Frequency asked is Channel r 5 (72-78 mc) as proposed in : allocation or as designated. CBS 'School' Set CBS on Oct. 1 moves Americ School of the Air from, prese 9:15-9:45 a.m. spot to 5-5:30 p. [Broadcasting, June 25]. Decisi to move program from school ho time to late afternoon period w based on (1) network under e rangement can leave Arthur Gc frey program in morning spot ai in its repeat broadcast 3:30-4 p.r and (2) the new time for Schc of the Air gives CBS a solid ho (5-6 p.m.) of programs aimed young audiences. WBRY, Waterbury, Connecticut . . . think your Telescript presentations are excellent and most helpful in the sale of the fine Telescript features on The AP radio wire. E. J. Frey Station Manager available through PRESS ASSOCIATION, .Nc SO Rockefeller Plain New Yor>-. N. Y. Page 30 • July 2, 1945