NBC Transmitter (Jan-Nov 1945)

February 1945 11 KTSM Goes “All Out" In Extensive Safety Plan EL PASO, I'KX.— With nine deaths reported in the city and county already this \ear, KTSM has inaugurated an intensive safety campaign designed to educate the many new drivers that have invaded El Paso as a result of the uar, and to reeducate the older citizens of the community in traflic rules. KTSM is organizing the children of the community in a safety club called the Safety Rangers. This is being done by devoting three j)rograms a week appealing to youngsters to practice safety. Parties for all members will be given periodically through the year and the schools in the city and county having a perfect safety record for the school year will be awarded a KTSM safety prize. The taxicab companies have been notified that the compain with a “clean bill of health” in the way of no accidents or violations for a 30-day period will be publicly commended by the traffic department in a special program. Any company keeping this record for a period of 90 days will receive a certificate for each cab displaying cooperation. This plan has been heartily endorsed by the cab companies. If this record is achieved KTSM will provide several programs publicizing the company and its record. The campaign has the wholehearted support of city and county officials as well as the schools. MUSIC VIA RADIOPHOTO L. to r.: Earl Wild, pianist; Benar Heifetz, cellist, and Mischa Mischakoff, violinist, watch the first part of Shostakovich's ‘'Trio" received direct from Moscow via RCA Radiophoto. The NBC musicians were assigned to the American premiere of the work. WRC’S MILLINERY CONTEST GETS WIDE ATTENTION TOPPERS TH.4T WERE STOPPERS— Nancy Osgood (right). It RC commentator, scans some of the competing chapeaus in ft RC's unique millinery contest. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Inspired by a man-catching chapeau worn by Irene Dunne in the movie, “Together Again,” playing at the Earle Theatre in Washington, Nancy Osgood, whose five-times-aweek women’s program is heard over WRC. staged a hat contest January 23 for the women wearing the “most attractively unusual” hats. First place winner received a $50 War Bond and second and third place entrants a $25 War Bond. Those who think that American women are the oidy ones who are stvle conscious will be interested in knowing that the contest was won by a Russian. Judges were fashion editors of two 'iJv ashington jrapers— Martha Ellyn of The Post and Virgila Stephens of The J imesHerald— and (iail, New \ ork fashion and beauty consultant. Hats of all shapes and sizes adorned the heads of the Washington women. One entrant was a rvoman deputy sherilT. Another wore a hat recently sent to her by her soldier husband in Paris. Over TOO women attended the contest and a 10-minute recording including interviews with the winners and judges was played back on Nancy’s j)iogram the following day. The women were all guests of Miss Osgood for a movie and stage show following the contest. WOW Television Dinner OMAHA, NEB.-Station WOW made public its postwar television plans at a dinner for 200 business men and 150 advertising men on January 23. Navy Captain C. W. (“Bill” I Eddy, and three other speakers participated in a panel discussion of television that featured “WOW Night” at the Omaha Advertising Club's regular meeting. In addition to Captain Eddy, speakers included Richard H. Hooper, RCA sales executive, Stephen W. Pozgay, transmitter sales representative of the General Electric Company, and Cyril Wagner, television writer for Billboard Magazine. Managers of five Omaha radio stations and important military and naval officers were at the speakers’ table. Shortwaves Keep KDYL On SALT LAKE CITY.-When a skidding automobile tore down the telephone lines feeding KDYL’s programs to its transmitter, the station kept on the air by utilizing its short wave equipment as a connecting link between the studios and the transmitter. portable mobile transmitter was set up immediately in front of the KDYL studios in The Tribune-Telegram Building, and the programs were shortwaved to the transmitter for rebroadcasting. The broadcast was interrupted when the automobile skidded on the icy pavement. sheared off a telephone pole and broke the cable carrying the KDYL lines. The accident occurred on the highway directly in front of the transmitter. 1