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Helnl Radio News Service
7/24/46
15-MINUTE POOLED BROADCASTS HIGHLIGHTS SECOND ATOMIC REPORT
A fifteen-minute pooled broadcast by the four major net¬ works National Broadcasting Company, Columbia Broadcasting System, Mutual Broadcasting System and the American Broadcasting Company highlighted plans for the radio summaries of the Bikini underwater atom bomb test set for today, July 24 (July 25, Bikini time).
The combined broadcast was scheduled to begin at 4:30 P.M. EST, about five minutes before the tentative time set for the atomic explosion, and the network correspondents, aboard the USS MT. McKINLEY, Admiral Blandy* s flagship, included Don Mosley for CBS, Clete Roberts for ABC, Don Bell of Mutual and Ralph Peterson of NBC.
Transmission of the broadcast was arranged by the Navy to go through the Appalachian, radio control ship at Bikini, However, transmitting equipment for the radio reports had been sent from Pearl Harbor and location of the commentators with respect to the explosion had not been determined up to last minute reports from the scene. Admiral Blandy had stated previously, though, that observers would be stationed closer to the scene than in the previous test and that improved transmitting facilities would be available to radio and the press aboard the Appalachian. Admiral Blandy also confidently stated that greater clarity could be expected from the broadcast than that from the first observation of atomic explosion.
In addition to the pooled broadcast a description from an observation plane was also slated to be given of the explosion which was expected to kick waves 50 feet high and throw tons of water thousands of feet into the sky.
Meanwhile, extensive scientific observations and tests to ascertain the effect of the second atomic bomb at Bikini on radio transmissions were scheduled to be carried out in a vast area extend¬ ing from the Pacific to New York by RCA Communications, Inc. engi¬ neers.
Stephen H. Simpson, Jr,, Manager of RCA* s International Program and Radiophoto services, stated last week-end that broachcasts from the scene of the big explosion would be transmitted to the United States over an elaborate radio relay system arranged by RCA in coojsration with the Army and Navy to improve reception in this country, as compared with reception of broadcasts covering the June 30 Bikini test.
The radio relays, Mr. Simpson, said, were to be in opera¬ tion at Kwajalein, Guam and Honolulu to pick up the Bikini broad¬ casts and beam them to San Francisco where giant reception towers of the Army and RCA were set to pull them in for distribution to the American networks. Relay circuits would also include BikiniKwajale in-San Francisco, BikiniGuamSan Francisco and BikiniHonolulu-San Francisco. The broadcasts likewise were arranged to be beamed to San Francisco directly from Bikini,
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