Broadcasting (Jan - Dec 1935)

BEHIND MICROPHONE THE rEORGE J. G. RJCKER, for sevral years active in New York and !alifornia theatrical and radio circles, jlas been named production director I WXYZ, Detroit. The move is part f a staff enlargement begun when VXYZ became Detroit outlet for the fBC-WJZ network. Lowell Blanchrd, formerly of KSO, Des Moines, as joined the WXYZ announcing taff. Bob Longstreet, sports anouncer, resigned to take charge of reduction at WFMD, Frederick, Md., tation scheduled to open Jan. 1. OHN HUGHES, KRFC, San Franisco, announcer, is compiling a book f his own poetry, which he writes ir his Thursday program Reflective loods heard over the CBS-Don Lee etwork. WIDE RANGE HIGH FIDELITY RECORDINGS GENERAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM 3910 Carnegie . Ave., Cleveland, Ohio GEORGE PICKARD, formerly of WXYZ, Detroit, has joined the announcing staff of WSPD, Toledo. Howard Donahoe, formerly program director of WWVA, Wheeling, and for six months an announcer at WSPD, has been named manager of the Clarksburg studios of WMMN, Fairmont, W. Va. Fielden Farrington, formerly of WWVA, succeeds Donahoe. David Zimmerman, University of Michigan graduate, has joined the WSPD announcing staff. FRANKLIN FERGUSON, announcer at WASH-WOOD, Grand Rapids, has returned from a honeymoon in Chicago. He was married Thanksgiving Day to Miss Alice Spears, Grand Rapids furniture designer. ALEX ROBB, assistant program director at NBC, Chicago, has been put in charge of the band booking division of the network's Artists Service in that city. EARL SANDERSON has resigned from the production and announcing staff of KJBS, San Francisco, and after the first of the year will become associated with an advertising agency. MAYER & KEMPNER, talent agency, was formed early in December in Hollywood by Gerald Mayer and Alex Kempner. They will take over the business of Mayer, Cutler & Landy. CONRAD RICE, formerly of the production department of WDGY. Minneapolis, has joined W D A Y, Fargo, N. D., as an announcer. WILMAE KUEHN, former University of Chicago co-ed, has joined the Chicago CBS studio hostess staff. r7~f "t-i" J / One announcement on the KM BC Farm Program • Brought this remarkable response Participate in this hiqhly responsive program to economically tell your sales message •• KMBC KAc^vAS * ANNOUNCEMENT 6:15 A.M. TUES. OCT. IS I935 5000 WATTS DAY I000 WATTS NIGHT I YES SUH, WHATTA GAME — Here, ladies and gentlemen, we have Jocko Maxwell, who claims the distinction of being the only colored sports announcer in the country. The station, you will note, is WHOM, Jersey City. A former high school athlete in Newark, he was discovered by Roland Trenchard, commercial manager of the station. Interviewing sports stars is his specialty, and he has had plenty of them. Football and baseball broadcasts, play by play, he asserts, are his forte. Jocko's pappy, William H. Maxwell, for 12 years was Sunday editor of the Newark Morning Ledger. The fact that his face is slightly darker than the stars he interviews or the people who hear him, says Jocko, has no effect on him. GEORGE H. HEID, formerly manager of KVOA, Tuscon, Ariz., has been pi-omoted from the announcing staff of KQV, Pittsburgh, to the program directorship. DUDLEY MANLOVE, announcer of KROW, Oakland, is confined to his home through illness and Kimball Sant, formerly on the announcing and producing staff of KQW, San Jose, Cal., is substituting. DON FITZGERALD, formerly with KSL. Salt Lake City, has joined the announcing and production staff of KGMB, Honolulu. DICK ROMAIN, KROW, Oakland, news announcer for the last five months, has resigned to do free lance writing. His successor is Don Averv. formerly news announcer at KPW, Wenatchee, Wash. DON PRINDLE has been promoted to studio manager of KOL. Seattle. John Forrest is announcing six news broadcasts daily. Art Edwards, new addition to the announcing staff, formerly was with KWSC, Pullman, KFPY, Spokane, and KXA, Seattle. REED POLLACK, formerly announcer of KJBS, San Francisco, has joined KDON. Del Monte, Cal., in a similar capacity. 'age 40 NEWS COVERAGE RICHARD McBROOM, absent from the NBC press department in Chicago on a two-months leave of absence, is temporarily replaced by George D. Livingstone. GERREE Te GROEN, traffic manager of KMTR, Hollywood, resigned in December, as did George Neff, announcer. Mrs. John Ness, widow of the former manager of the station, has joined the administrative staff. JOHN FRAZER is batting for Fayette Krum in NBC's Chicago continuity department, while Fayette is extending her leave of absence until Feb. 1. ROBERT YOUSE, formerly of NBC stations in Washington,' has joined the announcing staff of WDBJ, Roanoke, Va., handling Transradio news programs. CARL KENNEDY, recent graduate of Wooster College, has joined the staff of WKRC, Cincinnati. Dick Bray, WKRC sports announcer, refereed college and high school football games in Ohio and Kentucky during the autumn. JOHN THORP, formerly of Yankee network, has been named special events, sports and news announcer of WFIL, Philadelphia, succeeding Harold Simonds, transferred to sales. CHARLES BULOTTI Jr., night supervisor at KHJ, Los Angeles, is recuperating from a relapse which followed a siege of influenza. L. SCOTT PERKINS, formerly production manager of KHJ, Los Angeles, but now radio director for the Country Church of Hollywood, was seriously injured in San Francisco when he fell from an automobile. CHARLES ANDERSON, former NBC announcer in San Francisco, has joined the staff of KFWB, Hollywood. DAVID BYRN, formerly of WKY, Oklahoma City, was married to Miss Ida McClung, of Fort Worth, two days before he joined the staff of WHIO, Dayton. GEORGE PATTERSON, program director of WAVE, Louisville, was married in November, as was James F. Cox of the commercial staff. Leslie Shively joined the announcing staff after emerging as winner in a series of elimination contests. HOMER GRIFFITH, the "Friendly Philosopher", is being heard on WSM, Nashville, twice weekly under sponsorship of Mantle Lamp Co. of America, Chicago (Aladdin lamps), after eight months with WLS, Chicago, for the same sponsor. NELSON OLMSTED, production manager of KNOW, Austin, Tex., has been initiated into Alpha Psi Omega, honorary stagecraft fraternity at University of Texas. LES MARSHALL, formerly of WMCA, New York, and WHAS, Louisville, has joined the announcing staff of WISN, Milwaukee. HAROLD GRAY, formerly of WJSV, Washington, has joined the announcing staff of WBIG, Greensboro, N. C. Walter Haislip, of WBIG, and prior to that with WHAS, Louisville, has joined WJSV. LEW LANSWORTH, formerly with Lord & Thomas, San Francisco, has joined KFRC in that city, as continuity writer and producer. GARNETT A. MARKS, veteran sports and news announcer, and recently with WOR, Newark, has joined the announcing staff of WMCA, New York. WAYNE CLARK has joined the announcing staff of WBNS, Columbus. FRANK L. RAND, who resigned recently as publicity director of Yankee Network, joins CBS Dec. 16 as director of publicity and special events in the Chicago office. He takes the post vacated by Robert Kaufman, named director of the CBS Chicago program department. BROADCASTING • December 15, 1935