Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

huh mir^iiiii lllfjjlllll 5 0 0 0 WORL T 9 5 O ▲ USED AS A RULE IN BOSTON HEARD AS A RULE IN BOSTON BOUGHT AS A RULE IN BOSTON DOMINATES THE DIAL because BOSTON FAMILIES LOVE OUR "950 CLUB" PROGRAMMING MOM says: I love that great music of the Past — the 30's & 40's — Les Brown, Glen Gray & his Casa Loma Orchestra, Fats Waller and Gene Krupa — they ALL bring back memories of my courting days! DAD says: It's good to hear my old favorites on the "950 Club" too! Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Harry James — they remind me of the wonderful days we used to go dancing! SIS says: That Music of the Past puts Mom & Dad in a good mood, and I like that. But I also like to swoon with Pat Boone, and I get THAT in the 950 Club's Music of the Present and future, too! BRUD says: Sis is so girlish — but she's right about Music of the Past, Present & Future. My favorites on the 950 Club shows are Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Patti Page. Lena Home, too! INTERNATIONAL STAMPS FEATURING RADIO AND TV: (1 to r) top, France for tv, Luxembourg for tv and radio, and, lower, by Italy for tv, Monaco for Radio Monte Carlo, by Turkey and by West Germany for its radio, tv and shortwave broadcasting installation at Berlin. RADIO-TV'S PROGRESS CHRONICLED IN STAMPS OF OTHER NATIONS To the philatelist, no greater homage can be rendered a person, place, event or industry than the issuance of a commemorative stamp. So it was natural that a stamp collector, whose livelihood is from radio, recently pointed out that numerous foreign countries have accorded such recognition to the electronic media. However, he added, these nations do not include the U. S. or Canada where radio and tv have made its largest contribution to national welfare. "Many other industries have been featured on stamps of these countries," he said. "Perhaps the NARTB and the Canadian Assn. of Radio & Television Broadcasters can persuade their respective governments to publicize some future anniversary of radio-tv on stamps, especially for mail to other countries." A study of several foreign stamp issues shows how radio and television is receiving philatelic recognition abroad. When television started in Italy in 1954 and in France in 1955, the postal authorities in those countries issued special stamps. Italy's stamps are the only ones issued anywhere which feature a television receiver screen, while the French stamp shows the television transmitter antenna on the Eiffel Tower and tv antennas on rooftops. Luxembourg, that small principality between France, Belgium and Germany, where commercial broadcasting has been in existence for many years, issued a postage stamp in 1953 for Radio Luxembourg. The stamp shows the antenna layout and transmitter building of that well-known European broadcasting station. On the occasion of the opening of Television Luxembourg in 1955 a stamp was issued picturing the television antenna at Dudelange. One of the first countries to feature radio on its stamps was the small republic of Guatemala which in 1919 issued a stamp showing two towers with a flat-top antenna hanging between them. It commemorated Guatemala's start in radio. Anniversaries often are used by countries to issue special stamps. In 1955 Turkey marked a centenary of its modern communications, and one of the stamps printed portrayed a modern radio and television tower. Similarly, Western Germany last year for an industrial fair at Berlin pictured the antenna system of its radio and television broadcasting establishment at Berlin. The small coal and steel mining area of the Saar, between France and Germany, which recently reverted to Western Germany by popular vote, last year marked the event of its first television station with a view on a commemorative stamp of a tv transmitter antenna and a number of microwave antennas and microwave discs on a tower at Saarbrucken. Monaco, on a 1951 set, publicized Radio Monte Carlo, one of Europe's few commercial broadcasting stations. The stamp showed an air view of Monte Carlo with the station's antenna in the background. Switzerland in 1952 marked a century of its telecommunications systems with a set of four stamps, the top two values of which featured radio and television, while the lower values were devoted to telegraphy and the telephone. Norway, on a postage set for the centenary of its telecommunications, showed WORL BOSTON 5000 WATTS — INDEPENDENT Represented nationally by HEADLEY-REED CO. THE COMMUNITY-NEWS "VOICE WSRS GREATER CLEVELAND'S NUMBER 1 STATION SRS '«-Mw"MBS Page 116 • November 18, 1957 Broadcasting