NBC transmitter (Jan-Dec 1939)

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FEBRUARY, 1939 13 FIRST INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM CELEBRATED In an unusual surprise program on Wednesday evening, February 1, the National Broadcasting Company took its listeners on a half hour trip around the world in celebration of the tenth anniversary of NBC’s first international broadcast. In quick succession NBC listeners heard music from London, Iceland, Manila. Hongkong, Honolulu, and Tokio. The program was “piloted” around the world by remote control from Radio City by Milton J. Cross, veteran NBC announcer, who announced from New York the first international NBC program which originated in London and was heard in America through the NBC network stations, February 1, 1929. “It hardly seems ten years since that first program from London,” said Mr. Cross. “Everyone thought that first broadcast, brought to America by short waves, was a novel and entertaining stunt. There was a great deal of excitement at the first sounds that came through our loudspeakers from far-off England.” ANNIVERSARY CHIMES ( Continued from page 12) wanted to do in radio but a year later he made up his mind to become an engineer and enrolled at the RCA Institutes’ night school. While studying radio operation and broadcasting he served on the page staff, and in the Engineering Department and Production Division as office boy and receptionist. Three years ago he was transferred to the Maintenance Division of Engineering and he is now a fullfledged member of that staff. He holds a first class radio telephone operator’s license and a second class license for radio telegraphy. Ted Kruse was born in Puerto Rico. When he was ten years old his father, a Danish business man, died and he and his young sister were brought to New York by their mother, who wanted them to continue their education in this country. Dark of eyes and hair, youthful Engineer Kruse is a bachelor. But not necessarily a misogamist, he explained. KYW PHILADELPHIA by J. A. Auli. Joins KYW Sales John S. deRussy, for the past four years a member of the advertising department of the Philadelphia Record, has been appointed to the KYW sales staff, by Jack Hammann, sales manager. DeRussy was born in New Brunswick, N. J., and reared in nearby Woodbridge. He completed his early education at Brown University with the class of 1929. In 1929 he came to Philadelphia as manager of the local office for Scovil Brothers. Before he became affiliated with the Record he was in the advertising departments of both the Evening Bulletin and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is a member of the Art Alliance, the Pen and Pencil Club and the Electrical Association. Famous Women On January 23, the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women inaugurated on KYW a weekly series of round-table discussions about famous women. The title of the program, “Fascinating Facts About World-Famous Women of Yesteryear,” was chosen by the PCAW radio group headed by Ruth Clair. The first program was of Christina Rossetti, English poetess. Among the members is Betty Dickert, secretary to Leslie W. Joy, manager of KYW. Staff Notes It’s a valentine instead of an orchid for KYW’s Musical Clocker, Leroy Miller. Last month the students at Pottstown High School voted him the most popular speaker to appear on their rostrum during 1938 and promptly asked him to return on Valentine’s Day to speak at a pop rally. * * * * Even a radio engineer — the grim person who switches programs on and off the air, and frowns at everything that goes through the mike — can be funny it seems. Last month while making preliminary arrangements for an audition, Clayt Donaldson, Westinghouse engineer for KYW, set up the equipment and then took time out to imitate a Dutch professor of music. Donaldson was not aware that a fellow engineer had thrown the switch and that Clayt’s chatter with musical background was being broadcast in James Begley’s office upstairs. Begley thought so much of the nonsense that he booked it as a special feature. BOSTON Cr SPRINGFIELD by James Lee General Manager John A. Holman has been indulging in a novel vacation. He has installed what his colleagues insist is a “solarium” at his home in Scituate. The boss has been basking inside with the mercury hitting 92 degrees in mid-January. Now he says he can’t decide whether to raise orchids or gardenias in this new greenhouse. It’s actually that. # * * Chief Announcer Bob White has developed into a Southpaw since Christmas acrobatics fractured his starboard collarbone. He is just emerging from the orthopedist’s cocoon. * # * The Promotion staff, under the leadership of George A. Harder, has launched an aggressive campaign in line with NBC’s drive for a banner year. Together with Harry Goodwin and Kay Leatherbee he has disseminated miles of compelling consumer statistics. * * * Harry Goodwin, in his role of Esso News Editor, received a Christmas card from a namesake, Harry Goodwin, chairman of the board of selectmen of Bethlehem, N. H. The correspondent had been a steady listener of the Arlington Harry’s early morning broadcast. * * * Bob Evans of Special Events is broadcasting a daily evening roundup of happenings in the world of sports. * # * Kay Leatherbee has returned to her office in the Promotion Department after a serious bout with the grippe. KYW has joined the Associated Hospital Service. Individual contracts were signed in Auditor J. F. M. Proulx’s office late in January. * * * On January 6th, Don Heyworth, oldest KYW announcer in point of service and night program supervisor, celebrated his twelfth year in radio. Don started in radio on a small Boston station, now no longer in existence, back in 1927. It’s not everybody who can have a castle named after her, but Kathryn Ullman, secretary to Lambert Beeuwkes of KYW, now has that distinction. A few weeks ago, her uncle purchased a castle overlooking the Mississippi at Quincy, Illinois, and promptly named it after his favorite niece, “Villa Kathryn.”