NBC Transmitter (Dec 1945-Jan 1947)

10 NBC Transmitter NBC GETS TOP HONORS IN CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER POLL ; CAPTURES 8 OUT OF 15 PLACES IN ALLAMERICA ROSTER CLEVELAND. With “Fibber McGee and Molly’’ in first position, NBC came off with eight out of 15 winners in the “AllAmerica Programs” classification of The Cleveland Plain Dealer 1946-1947 Readers’ Radio Poll, results of which were announced November 17. NBC scored twoto-one against its nearest competitor in this top program category of the annual Cleveland balloting. Here’s the way (in order) the readers rated the first 15 radio programs: “Fibber McGee and Molly” (NBC), “Fred Waring Show” (NBC), “Radio Theater” (CBS), “Metropolitan Opera" (ABC), “Information Please” (CBS), Bing Crosby (ABC), “Theater Guild” (CBS), New York Philharmonic (CBS), “One Man’s Family” (NBC), “Fred Allen Show” (NBC), Bob Hope, (NBC), “Voice of Firestone” (NBC), “America’s Town Meeting” (ABC), NBC Symphony Orchestra (NBC) and “Telephone Hour” (NBC). The poll's All-America Radio Eleven yielded seven places to NBC names. Bing Crosby (ABC) was chosen as captain of the personality team, which included (in order voted) Bob Hope (NBC), Fred Allen (NBC), Arthur Godfrey (CBS), Edgar Bergen (NBC), Fred Waring (NBC), Kate Smith (CBS), Don McNeill (ABC), Red Skelton (NBC), Fibber McGee (NBC) and Art Linkletter (NBC). Lowell Thomas, NBC commentator, according to Radio Editor Robert S. Stephan. “ran away from his field in straight news reporting taking over 50 per cent of the total vote.” NBC's Bob Hope was a two-to-one choice over his nearest rival in the comedians’ classification of the poll. NBC took seven out of nine places in this competitive list, winning the first five positions in consecutive order. Fred Allen topped the variety show category, in which NBC won seven out of 11 places, again taking the first five positions in a row. The NBC Symphony Orchestra came off with first-place honors in the symphonic program category, being followed, in order, by the New York Philharmonic (CBS), the Cleveland Symphony (MBS) and the Boston Symphony (ABC). NBC’s Gracie Allen, Molly McGee, Judy Canova, Vera Vague and Eve Arden won five of the seven places in the comediennes’ winning roster. Five of seven places in the “middle music” winning group went to NBC shows, namely “Telephone Hour,” “Voice of Firestone,” “Fred Waring Show,” “American Album of Familiar Music,” and “Harvest of Stars” with James Melton. NBC’s James Melton and Christopher Lynch were the only regularly-heard classical male singers in the winners’ box. In the popular classification, the winners included Bing Crosby (ABC), Perry Como (NBC), Frank Sinatra (CBS), Dennis Day (NBC) and Dick Haymes (CBS). NBC scored in the classical female singers’ list with Eleanor Steber and in the popular list with Jo Stafford. In the quiz category, NBC had three high-raters in “Dr. I.Q.,” “Quiz Kids” and “Truth or Consequences.” Scoring high in the dramatic program group was NBC’s “Cavalcade of America” and “Mr. District Attorney.” Educational winners included NBC’s “University of Chicago Round Table" and “Cavalcade of America.” Radio-Newspaper Program SALT LAKE CITY. KDYL and The Salt Lake Telegram presented their “Inquiring Editor” program from the Utah Educational association convention here in October at the beginning of another season during which the program is being aired from various high schools. The program features H. F. Kretchman, editor of The Telegram, in the title role with Kay W. Richins, KDYL production manager, as master-of-ceremonies. Questions are confined to current events, and the program is presented at assembly periods during the week with a team of four boys competing against four girls for rebroadcast each Saturday. A picked team from Jordan High school opposed a team from Davis High school in the kickoff broadcast from the TfEA convention, and Salt Lake’s East High School provided a musical interlude midway in the half-hour show. LOST AND FOUND LOCATES RING— Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert C. Freuler being interviewed by NBC’s Bjorn Bjornson on the “ World News Roundup” after being told of lucky find. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Thanks to an NBC broadcast from Tokyo, a Marine hero is recovering a good luck ring taken from him by the Japs after the capture of Wake Island. Speaking from Tokyo one night on the NBC “World News Roundup.” correspondent George Thomas Folster reported that the Army had recovered jewelry and personal property belonging to former American prisoners. Among the items, Folster said, was a ring engraved on the inside with the name of Herbert C. Freuler. Following the broadcast a Marine captain in Arlington, Virginia, telephoned the WRC newsroom suggesting the ring might belong to a Lieutenant-Colonel Freuler stationed at Quantico. WRC got in touch with Colonel Freuler and brought him to Washington to tell the full story of the ring on the “World News Roundup.” Second FM Affiliate for WTMJ MILWAUKEE. WIS. -The new call letters of The Milwaukee Journal’s frequency modulation station at Wausau, as requested by Journal Company officials and approved by the Federal Communications Commission, will be WMJT. The Journal operates WTMJ. NBC affiliate. This is the second FM venture for The Milwaukee Journal which constructed the first FM station west of the Alleghanies in 1940. WTMJ-FM has been operating regularlv since that time.