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9/24/40
THREE UTAH STATIONS FORM NETWORK
Effective September 29, three Utah stations, KLO, Ogden-Salt Lake City; KOVO, Provo, and KEUB , Price, will group themselves into a full time regional network and simultaneously as a network become affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Extension of Mutual service into Utah through The Inter¬ mountain Network will give the Mutual Broadcasting System con¬ centrated coverage of the full intermountain market, including Utah, southeastern Idaho, western Wyoming and eastern Nevada.
This intermountain market heretofore has been the only major market in the West not served by Mutual, KLO, key station for the newly formed Intermountain Network, is a 5000 watt full time out¬ let with studios in Ogden and Salt Lake City. KOVO, Provo, and KEUB, Price, both are 250 watt full time locals. Studios and business offices of the Intermountain Network are in the McIntyre Building, Salt Lake City.
In addition to Mutual program service, stations of the Intermountain Network will carry a substantial schedule of regional sustaining and commercial features originating in Salt Lake City, Ogden, Provo and Price.
Stations KOVO and KEUB will be programmed exclusively by Mutual. KLO will carry both Mutual and NBC Blue programs.
Officers of The Intermountain Network, Inc. , are:
Paul R. Heitmeyer, President and Manager, Jack Richards and Arch Madsen, Vice-Presidents; Clifton A. Tolboe, Treasurer, and A. L. G-lasmann, Secretary.
Socs N. Vratis will be national advertising manager and George F. Hollingbery Company will be the national sales repre sentative.
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PRESIDENT’S PHILADELPHIA SPEECH SEEN POLITICAL
Criticizing President Roosevelt for the use of free radio time, David Lawrence writes in the Washington Star:
’’Although the three major broadcasting companies decided to give free time to President Roosevelt’s radio address at the University of Pennsylvania, it was as transparently a political address as if it had been made by Senator Guffey who, together with other prominent New Deal Democrats, toured Philadelphia with the President in a manifest piece of political campaigning.
"Mr. Roosevelt used his University of Pennsylvania speech to answer recent attacks by Wendell Willkie, Republican nominee.
He had every right to do this, and nobody can object to a Presi¬ dent campaigning for himself. What is causing public criticism is the apparent effort to make a political speech under supposedly non-political auspices and to gain the use of free radio time and thus save the Democratic campaign funds for other ourooses.fl
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