NBC Transmitter (Dec 1945-Jan 1947)

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6 NBC Transmitter William M. Tuck, Governor of Virginia, receives pictures of his inauguration coverage by WMBG, from Allan Phaup, of the Richmond station’s program staff. Anna Marie Genovese, 16, a polio victim since infancy, was wheeled to the W SYR mike daily for the March of Dimes. Stars she visited at the Syracuse, New York, station, surround her desk. Quenton Cox, matviger of KGlt ( Portland , Oregon), advises his about-to-wed staff to “ keep the upper hand,” as he presents rolling pins to Lillian Markkanen, Ella Perala and Ivah Buxton. W BZ, Boston, and W BZA, Springfield, Mass., listeners heard a description of special ski events at North Conway, New Hampshire, by shortwave from this booth overlooking the ski run. “Chick” Morris, neivs director at W BZ, interviews 10-month-old Irene Matthews, British-born war baby. The girls who have the social situation happily in hand with the Navy in tow are some of the employees of NBC’s Central division headquarters in Chicago. They recently entertained more than 600 servicemen at the USO center there.