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He ini Radio News Service
7/31/46
TRADE NOTES
Press Wireless, Inc. has released a booklet, with fore¬ word by President A. Warren Norton, depicting its activities and growth in radiotelegraph traffic from 25 million words in 1935 to 157 million words in 1945. Radiophotos by Press Wireless rose from none in 1935 to 914,706 square centimeters and radiovoice from none to 9,233 hours. The increase in the company’s message speed has increased from 100 words per minute in 1*931 to 800 words per minute in 1946 and circuits of Press Wireless have been boosted over 19 times between 1930 and 1946.
Lieut. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, Deputy Commander of the AaF and Chief of Air Staff, will be heard during a special ABC broadcast, titled "Keeping The Peace" and commemorating Army Air Forces Day, on Thursday, August 1st at 10 p.M. EDT over the American Broadcast¬ ing Network. The program will stress the obsolescence of World War II equipment and dramatize an impression of what a third world war might be like. General Eaker will be heard from Washington with the dramatization originating in Hollywood.
A special plaque citing Mutual Broadcasting System "for its cooperation with the Southern New Yo*rk recruiting and induction office" was presented to Edgar Kobak, President of the network, dur¬ ing "Division Diary" last Friday afternoon.
Read Wight has been named Manager of the Program Sales Division of the Progra,m Department of the American Broadcasting Company, according to Adrian Samish, ABC Vice President in charge of programs. Mr. Wight succeeds Carol Irwin, who recently resigned. Miss Irwin’s future plans will be announced shortly.
Mr. Wight came to ABC on January 14th last as a member of the network’s Program Sales Department.
Prior to his affiliation with ABC he was associated with the William Morris Agency in the R?dio Department. Previous to that Mr. Wight was Vice President of World Broadcasting and in 193335 served as Radio Director of H. W. Kastor & Sons, in Chicago.
Several hundred persons appeared on the scene to buy Gov¬ ernment radio surplus equipment for 20 cents a pound in Atlanta recently. The equipment, highly expensive when it was built for the Army, was classified as junk by the Army for the sale.
Andy Murphy, former Chicago Tribune reporter, will join the staff of the American Broadcasting Company’s Central Division Press Department as a writer, Thursday, August 1, it was announced by Ell Henry, Central Division Publicity Manager.
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