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NBC TRANSMITTER
NBC TRANSMITTER
Published for and by the employes of the National Broadeasting Company from eoast to eoast.
VOL. 5 FEBRUARY, 1939 NO. 2
EDITORIAL BOARD
Dom Davis Editor
Caul Cannon Associate Editor
George Olenslagkh Staff W riter
Charles H. Newton, Jr. Staff Writer
Bill Eddy Staff Artist
Charles Van Bergen Photographs
N. Y. CONTRIBUTORS
Reid E. Patterson Legal
Address all correspondence to: NBC Transmitter. National Broadcasting Company. Room 284. RCA Building, New York. N. Y. Telephone: Circle 7-8300. Extension 220.
LONDON AND NEW YORK MAYORS HEARD ON NBC
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London to come and visit the New York World’s Fair.
A. A. Schechter, director of News and Special Events, who was in direct charge of the New York broadcast, rod ■ in the Mayor s car. Fred Bate, NBC representative in London, described to the American radio audience the Lord Mayor’s exit from Mansion House and the colorful and medieval pageantry of the scene — the Lord Mayor’s traditional robe of office, his gilt neckchains, his mace bearer, and the other trappings of the traditional coach o! state journey to the Guildhall.
A pack transmitter in Mayor La Guardia’s car transmitted his voice, which was picked up by an NBG mobile unit that trailed the official car and which relayed the broadcast to Radio City, whence the program was wired to shortwave transmitters that sent it to England. The pack transmitter and mobile unit were operated by Field Engineers C. H. Campbell, Dewey Sturgell and Andrew R. Thomson, and the receiving and sending equipment atop the RCA Building was operated by Harold T. Ashworth.
ESSO FILM SHOWN AT NBC
Several members of NBC New Vork attended a showing of A ews in llie Air, an Esso feature film, in Studio <°>G on February 10. The film showed how the news is gathered by the United Press and then teletyped to the News and Special Events Division where it is read on the air by the Esso Reporter. Arrangements for the showing were made by William 0. Tilenius, Local Sales, who is in charge of the account.
NBC HALL OF FAME
Proposed NBC Statue No. 1 1 and Citation Plaque
TO THE ANNOUNCERS
As guest artist on our sleigh-ride of the month, we bid welcome to those hot-shots of the station break — the Announcers.
Ready at the gong to go into their frenzied song and dance for the “ product ” these stalwarts of Thesaurus represent radio’s reincarnation of yesteryear’ s medicine man.
A profession normally based on a periodicity of fifteen minutes, it infrequently calls upon our heroes to flail the ether for hours on end, strumming their vocal cords in vain attempt to keep fireside audiences munching their hang-nails in tense anticipation as the main office institutes a man-hunt through back streets for the featured parade.
Therefore — to you virtuosos of the polysyllabic delivery, maestros of the tri-tonic chimes, we bow low in salute as we present this reasonable facsimile of a statue and ten cents to cover cost of handling.