NBC Transmitter (Jan-Nov 1945)

4 NBC Transmitter i ADVERTISING EXECUTIVES AT CHICAGO SHOWING OF NBC ALL-COUNTY SURVEY Left photo: Roy C. W itnier, NRC vice-president charge of sales, and Stanley D. Roberts, advertising manager. Carnation Company. M. R. Tennerstedt, NBC account executive, is in background. Center photo: Frank Brodsky and George R. Stege, Jr., Pepsodent Company executives, and Clyde M. Joice, president of the Goodkind, Joice and Morgan agency. Right photo: Harry Kopf, NBC vicepresident in charge of Central division; Richard Dexter, Kellog Company radio director, and ]. D. Galbraith, NBC account executive. ARMY JOINS IN SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF KOA MUSIC CENTER FOR ENLISTED MEN DENVER, COLO.-KOA celebrated the Second Anniversary of its Music Center for Enlisted Men on February 23. Featured on the anniversary broadcast were the Fort Logan Band, Brigadier-General Omar H. Quade, Commanding Officer, Fitzsimons General Hospital; Colonel Robert M. Graham, Commanding Officer, Fort Logan Convalescent Hospital; Colonel William H. Lawton, Commanding Officer, Fort Logan; and Mrs. James R. MacPherson, wife of KOA’s assistant manager and a member of the KOA Music Center executive board. Every Friday night for the past two years the KOA Music Center has presented a program by and for service personnel stationed at the various army posts located in the Denver area. Thousands of men and women of our armed forces have had a part in the KOA Music Center since its inauguration in Fehruarv of 1942, just two months after Pearl Harbor. Through the untiring efforts of KOA, an advisory board— made up of the wives of the commanding officers of the various Denver area army posts— service personnel were made to feel more at home in a strange city. The KOA Music Center executive hoard is made up of Mrs. MacPherson. Mrs. John C. Vivian, wife of Colorado’s governor, and Mrs. John Sullivan. They plan the weekly programs and other activities. In addition to the weekly pro gram, activities of the KOA Music Center for Enlisted Men include: use of KOA’s clients’ reception facilities where service personnel could read or write letters, or listen to recordings of music they enjoy; use of KOA’s studios where they may practice pre-war pursuits in music and the theatre, or in radio program acting, writing and producing. Many special events have taken place on the KOA Music Center’s Friday night programs. From time to time, noted musicians have appeared with one of the various Denver area Army post bands. Most recently, the Royal Air Force Symphonic Band, visiting the L . S. at the invitation of General H. H. Arnold, made one of its few radio broadcasts in this countr\ on the KOA Music Center program. Roy Harris, noted American composer, and his wife, Johanna, who is a gifted pianist in her own right, presented the premiere of one of Harris’ compositions. Even a kennel of dogs from the K-9 Corps, at one time stationed at Camp George West near Denver, put in an appearance and “growled” out a part. Members of the KOA Music Genter executive hoard now pay weekly visits to patients stationed at Fitzsimons General Hospital, and at present they are campaigning relentlessly for Denverites and Coloradoans to give up old and unused musical instruments for use by wounded personnel stationed there. Miami High Schools Get Own Program Spot on WIOD I MIAMI, FLA.— As a direct result of a meeting called by James M. Le Gate, general manager of WIOD, with the representatives of five high schools of Greater Miami, a half-hour broadcast period has been alloted the high schools each Saturday morning to promote activities of the respective schools. Andrew Jackson High inaugurated the 15-week series of “Our High Schools” on February 17, with a preview performance of the “Andrew Jackson Minstrels of 1945.” Robert Fidlar, program director of WIOD, produces the shows which present on succeeding Saturdays the high schools of Miami Beach, Miami Edison, Ponce de Leon of Coral Gables, and Miami Senior High. James Wilson, supervisor of Dade Gounty Schools, has approved the plan for high schools to air their special activities. WGBF House Organ Grows EVANSVILLE, IND.— The EvansvilleOn-The-Air, Inc., publication. Listen, doubled in size March 9 to eight pages to allow more space for detailed information about local radio programs and local radio staff personalities, to incorporate FM and network schedules with the complete. day-hy-day schedules of WGBF programs, and to make room for television tips. Listen, published each Friday, is distributed free of charge through local grocerv stores. Mail subscribers pay one dollar per year.