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12/17/35
A. B. CHURCH ELECTED KMBC PRESIDENT; DENIES SALE RUMOR
Discrediting reports that negotiations were in pro¬ gress to sell KMBC, Kansas City, the Board of Directors has elected Arthur B. Church President and General Manager of the Midland Broadcasting Co. He has been Vice-President and General Manager since the station was founded in 1921. As President, he succeeds the late Frederick B. Blair.
Mr. Church denied renorts that the Kansas City Star was seeking to purchase the CBS outlet as a second station with WDAF. He immediately announced the appointment of J. Leslie Fox as Director of Sales for KMBC. The Directors elected Roland R. Blair, son of the late president, as Vice-President, and Mark H. Siegfried, Treasurer.
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WINTERBOTTOM NOTES EFFECT OF "THE SHADOW" ON SHORT-WAVES
Radio's first "mystery drama", in which radio emis¬ sions from unknown sources mysteriously invade different parts of the short-wave band at irregular intervals, was disclosed yesterday (Dec. 16) by William A. Winterbottom , Vice-President and General Manager of R. C.A. Communications, Inc.
Because of their unpredictable raids into marine, transoceanic, aircraft, military, naval, amateur, and probably also in the television sections of the radio spectrum, the strange radio signals have become known to engineers as "the shadow" , he said.
These radio waves have not the character of tele¬ graphic or telephonic signals, and are definitely unrelated to any "static" or cosmic ray phenomena within the experience of engineers. Unlike static, they are usually observed on definite frequencies.
Through the past year "the shadow" has been most active in the frequency band between 11,000 and 14,000 kilocycles, although it has been observed as low as 6,000 kilocycles and as high as 18,000. At stations of RCA and other radio companies in the eastern United States, the mysterious signals are most frequently observed between the hours of 9 A.M. and 6 P.M.
So far the radio communication and broadcasting com¬ panies have had no serious difficulty in circumventing the inter¬ ference caused by the mystery signals, he said. But there is little doubt that the public who listen in on short-wave bands have already suffered considerable inconvenience, and may expect still more, for within the last six months "the shadow" has becoming increasingly active in the United States.
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