NBC Transmitter (Jan-Nov 1945)

January 1945 13 AT SON’S PARTY— Mrs. Louisa Pribble, 76-year-old mother of Vernon H. Pribble, IVTAM’s divisional manager, and Mrs. Tom Manning, wife of IVT AM’s sports announcer, at the Cleveland celebration. Pribble, 10 Years With NBC, Honored at Cleveland Party CLEVELAND. — Mrs. Louisa Pribble, 76-year-olcl mother of Vernon H. Pribble, divisional manager of WTAM, refused to allow the wartime difficulties of securing sleeping space on the train from her home in Ridge Farm, Illinois, prevent her from attending the 10th anniversary party which WTAM staff members and civic notables staged for Pribble in the ballroom of the Lake Shore hotel here, December 20. Many tributes were paid Pribble but the fact that his mother stayed up all night on the Cleveland-bound train so that she might pay him a surprise visit and bring her congratulations in person was, for the WTAM manager, the greatest tribute of all. Among the 250 people who honored WTAM’s divisional manager on the occasion were Clay Morgan, assistant to Niles Trammell, NBC president, who presented Pribble with a 10-year Club membership button and certificate; Willan C. Roux, of NBC spot sales department; Charles P. Hammond, NBC director of advertising and promotion; Governor Frank Lausche and Mayor-Elect Thomas Burke. Menser Cleveland Guest CLEVELAND. — Clarence L. Menser, NBC vice-president in charge of programs, was guest of honor at the Cleveland Athletic Club luncheon January 19. Later in the day he addressed the Cleveland Federation of Women’s Clubs. He also attended a meeting of the Radio Council of Greater Cleveland. 22-Year Friendship, Started On Air, Resumed by WKY-ers OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.-Twentytvvo years ago, although thousands of miles apart, two men became friends. Recently, for the first time, they met face to face. J'he remarkable reunion took jilace in the studios of WKY here when a television rehearsal was taking j)lace. i’he men are Sydney R. Montague, 10 years a Royal Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman, now an internationally known lecturer and master-of-ceremonies of WKY’s special War Loan television show, and E. D. Harvey, of the station’s production staff. Twenty-two years ago, when radio broadcasting was in its early stages, Montague and a few other white men were stationed in the far reaches of Northern Canada. Indelihly imprinted in Montague’s mind was the voice of a radio announcer who was his principal contact with civilization. The outpost far in the Arctic Circle received mail but once a year when the supply ship came through. So radio brought him news of relatives and friends. At WKY, while Montague was being televised, rehearsing the part he will jday, Harvey was directing the scene and asked Montague to step closer to the lights. Harvey’s voice has a husky Scottish quality that was even more pronounced 22 years ago. Montague stared. It was the voice he knew. They compared notes and Harvey proved to be the announcer Montague and his companions listened to so much in the frozen north. Hence, there is much reminiscing at WKY these days. Sydney R. Montague (left) and E. D. Harvey, both with WKY, Oklahoma City, resume a friendship that began via radio 22 years ago. The two men never before met face to face, but Montague remembered Harvey’s voice right through the years. “EXTR.4 !”— After broadcasting sports, society, markets, editorial and feature sections, the last of six announcers— Mike Dunn— is about to fold up the KSD "radio newspaper’’ with a reading of the comic strij>s. KSD “Delivers" Newspapers During 2-Day Press Strike ST. LOUIS.— Established 21 years ago as an experiment by The St. Louis PostDispatch, Station KSD turned the tables on its publishing parent by becoming a radit) newspaper while The Post-Dispatch and other local papers were shut down by a strike December <> and 9. KSD broadcast full contents of the unpublished paper, excepting advertisements. The station began broadcasting from jjioofs of pages of the unpublished paper an hour after a pressroom walkout stopped the first edition from going to press. The reading of one edition, edited somewhat for radio, occupied six announcers for about three hours, and everything from death notices to comics was j)ut on the air. KSD presented news headlines and stories, page by page and column by column, with sports, markets, society news and other departments, and a verbal description of cartoons. In the evening, the station broadcast special programs based on the newspaper features and comics, fully explaining the antics of such characters as Li’l Abner. From noon until 6 p.m. on the first day of the strike, KSD cancelled regular NBC and local programs to present The PostDispatch, and that night gave news summaries every half-hour. The following dav, the station again broadcast contents of the unpublished first edition and followed with regular summaries until the strike ended in late afternoon and final editions appeared on the streets. The event was hailed both for its public service and showmanship angles.