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NBC TRANSMITTER
NBC TRANSMITTER
Published for and by the employes of the National Broadcasting Company from coast to coast.
VOL. 4 OCTOBER, 1938 "NO. 10
EDITORIAL BOARD
DOM DAVIS Editor
CARL CANNON Associate Editor
GEORGE OLENSLAGER Staff Writer
CHARLES H. NEWTON, Jr Staff Writer
CHARLES VAN BERGEN Photographs
BILL EDDY Staff Artist
N. Y. CONTRIBUTORS
E. P. H. JAMES Sales Promotion
Address all correspondence to: NBC TRANSMITTER
Room 284, RCA Building, New York Circle 7-8300, Ext. 220
NBC'S COVERAGE OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK CRISIS
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The credit for the magnificent job must be divided evenly. The News and Special Events Division, working over all hours of the day under the direction of A. A. Schechter, had Max Jordan and Fred Bate booking programs all over Europe. The scene shifted amazingly fast from Prague to Berlin to London to Paris, Brussels, Geneva and a dozen other cities. The Press Division had its men on the job over eighteen hours a day; on several occasions they worked throughout the night to furnish metropolitan dailies and news services with the latest flash bulletins from Europe. At one time wire facilities were so clogged that the only news from Prague came out over NBC. The Traffic Department made and broke schedules with wild abandon and set up networks and circuits from Europe on a few minutes’ notice. To complete the job and get the programs on the air, Master Control handled the circuits with amazing deftness and the boys at the transmitters either stayed on the air all night or stayed so close to the job they could be on the air on a few minutes notice. All in all, it was a grand job.
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NBC HALL OF FAME
Proposed NBC Statue No. 7 and Citation Plaque
THE PRESS ROOM
We take you now to the NBC Press Room and our trumpet-tongued legion of the Fourth Estate — Bivouacked in choice acreage on the fourth deck, this polymorphic colony of promulgatory Munchausens concoct ream upon ream of tittle-tattle to the tintinnabulation of strident outcries of FLASH!
Here the inconsequential doings of Tillie Gilch, NBC songstress, are given the inflationary and aggrandizement treatment, creating from a seed of trivia, the 144 point scare heads of tomorrow’s press release. From this fertile hotbed of lexicography emerges an endless stream of this and that destined to appear later under bucolic by-lines as a private bit of big-time eavesdropping.
But discarding the cap and bells of the critic we lay our harlequin robes before this granite monolith dedicated to you guys and gals of the Press Room.
For further details see your daily newspaper.