NBC transmitter (Jan-Dec 1938)

APRIL, 1938 15 FIVE ADDITIONS RAISE NBC STATIONS TO 150 During the month of March, NBC announced the affiliation of six additional stations with its networks; thus increasing the total number of NBC associated stations to 150. Three of these stations, KSEI, Pocatello, Idaho; KTFI, Twin Cities, Idaho, and KPFA, Helena, Montana, have already been linked with the North Mountain Group. The other new stations KGKO, Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas; KTOK, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and WALA, Mobile, Alabama, will be connected with the new Southwestern Group during the next two months. KSEI, owned and operated by the Radio Service Corporation of Idaho, became available to both the NBC-Blue and the NBC-Red Networks on March 12. The station operates full time on a regional channel of 900 kilocycles with a day power of 1,000 watts and a night power of 250 watts. KTFI, whose affiliation has been delayed by the installation of transmission circuits which is now under way, is owned and operated by the Radio Broadcasting Corporation. It broadcasts fulltime on a regional frequency of 1,240 kilocycles, with a power of 1,000 watts day and night. KPFA is owned by the People’s Forum of the Air, and operates full-time on a frequency of 1,210 kilocycles. Daytime power is 250 watts; night power 100 watts. KGKO, owned by the Wichita Falls Broadcasting Company, at present is located in Wichita Falls, Texas, but is being moved to Forth Worth-Dallas, where it will operate full-time on 570 kilocycles with 5,000 watts daytime power and 1,000 watts at night. Its new location will enable it to give concentrated coverage of the Fort Worth-Dallas area, the Southest’s largest market. KTOK is owned by the Oklahoma Broadcasting Co., Inc., and operates fulltime on a frequency of 1370 kilocycles with 100 watts power. KTOK and KGKO will be hooked up with NBC on May 1. WALA is owned and operated by W. O. Pape. It operates on a frequency of 1,380 kilocycles with a day power of 1,000 watts and a night power of 500 watts. The only station in Mobile, WALA will be linked to the networks on June 1. You Have A Date On April 22 NBC Athletic Association Dance Peter Van Steeden and His Orchestra Hotel Roosevelt, New York Sixteen NBC guides and pages in their neat blue uniforms startled commuters at 9 a.m., on March 24 when they marched into the Grand Central to greet the great “Love in Bloom” Benny upon his arrival from Hollywood for one Radio City broadcast. “Shucks”, said one of the boys after the hubbub, “he didn’t even crack one joke.” Only crack riiade was by southernaccented Guide Joe Allen when a photographer popped a flash bulb: “Shoot him agin, pappy, he’s a revenuer!” ■til Robert Coveil of Music Research, sang with the Schola Cantorum in the Requiem played by the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Toscanini’s baton at Carnegie Hall last month before the Maestro sailed for home. We knew that he (Bob) played the cello but we didn’t know he sang too until we spotted him in the chorus. i / v It’s a small world. A man in North Ireland whose brother, he writes, works in the Rockefeller Center Parking Lot wrote announcer Jack Costello a fan letter of which the latter is very proud. Costello’s admirer says he heard him reading news items via short wave. A postscript requests Costello to look up the writer’s brother in the Parking Lot and give him his best regards. iii Soundman Manny Segal is going around impressing people with his new gold badge — captain of the Dick Tracy Secret Service Patrol. iii Juan de Jara Almonte one of radio’s most popular veterans, completed his eleventh year with NBC last month. Onetime evening manager of the Radio City studios, he is now assistant to President Lohr. iii That tenor who sang at the New York City Advertising Club Dinner on March 16 was Don Meissner . . . and the pianist was Phil Jeffries . . . both of Artists Service. Don, you remember, was once a page who gained momentary fame by placing second in one of Major Bowe’s amateur programs and then going on the road with one of the gong master’s units. iii Some wag mailed Director Lester Vail a phoney letter asking him to act as a stooge to a temperance lecturer in a summer campaign against liquor . . . The March of Time people recently took shots EXCHANGE CORNER This classified ad section is available, free of charge, to all NBC employes. Rules: forty-five word limit; no regular business or professional service may be advertised. Address ads to NBC Transmitter, Room 284, RCA Building, New York. WANTED — A portable electric sewing machine. Call or write Suzanne Cretinon, Room 412, Ext. 736, New York. FOR SALE OR TRADE— Portable Victrola phonograph. Barbara Buck, New York Sales Department. SUBLET — Four-room modern, completely furnished, studio apartment, 15 minutes from Radio City, until October. Large living room, fireplace, French windows overlooking cool garden with fountain. Two bedrooms with modern opaque glass walls. Suitable for two or three persons. Apply to the NBC transmitter. BARGAIN— For sale 1937 RCA console, model 9K, radio for A.C. Brand new tubes, mechanically perfect, finish exceptionally preserved. List price $150 — will sell for $50. Audition on request and perhaps even terms. Call Otto Brandt on Ext. 301 in New York. WANTED — The following back numbers of “Communication & Broadcast Engineering”— 1936 : Feb., Mar., Sept., Oct., Nov. ; and 1937 : Jan. Call or write Philip Sullivan, Guest Relations, New York. FOR SALE — Practically new Royal typewriter at half price. Call Edna Mustor on Extension 802, New York. FOR SALE — 100-watt amateur transmitter. CW and phone. Entire equipment just two months old. Thordarson parts, RCA tubes. Single button carbon microphone. 807’s in the final, modulated by 6L6’s. Mounted on single sub-panel, portable type, in black crackle finished metal cabinet. Operates beautifully. E. Hammersley. NBC, 1625 California St., Denver, Colorado. of the News Room on the fourth floor . . . John F. Royal and Abe Schechter were starred in a scene about NBC’s coverage of the Austrian coup by Der Fuehrer. NBC philatelists are still talking about their annual banquet held in the Board Room last month . . . The NBC Stamp Club will soon announce the names of its 1938 officers who are being elected as this goes to press. Kay Barr (KDKA Press Manager) and the Mrs., stopped to say hello to Radio City friends while on their way back to Pittsburgh from a West Indies cruise.