Heinl radio business letter (Jan-June 1936)

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6/30/36 KGB, San Diego, 3.000 watts, 1330 kc. and KDB, Santa Barbara on 1500 kc„ The Denver stations are on the 920 kc. channel. Thus these stations have several choice spots on the dial. The Don Lee Network was the first on the Pacific slope to conduct daily television demonstrations and it owns several patents said to be of considerable importance to the development of visual radio. The growing association of the movie industry and broad¬ casting is bringing more and more of radio’s major programs to the Hollywood regions. On the older networks approximately half of the major evening programs are to be originated in the movie capital. Through its expansion westward, Mutual will be in a position to originate programs featuring some of the glamourous figures of the movie, music and theatrical worlds that are con¬ centrated in Hollywood. Member stations of Mutual are WGN, the Chicago Tribune station; WLW, Cincinnati; WOR, New York and Newark; and CKLW, Detroit-Windsor. In addition, Mutual programs are released through stations in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Buffalo, and additional stations may be added to meet program and client needs. XXXXXXXX story of McDonald’s rise in radio told in time A graphic account of the entrance and rise of Commander Eugene F. McDonald, Jr. , President of the Zenith Radio Corporation, in the radio industry is told in the June 29th issue of Time. Commander McDonald got his start with two young men who had a passion for building radio receivers in 1920. Now the Zenith Radio Corporation is one of the leaders in the industry. Three moves are credited by the Time correspondent for Commander McDonald's rapid rise: (1) concentration on short-wave sending and receiving sets, together with the taking of a short-wave set to the Arctic on the McMillan expedition in 1923; (2) the enlist¬ ment of the Goodrich tire dealers in a novel sales campaign; and (3) the solution of the power problem for farmers by developing the "Winchargers. ” XXXXXXXX 5