NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1939)

8 NBC TRANSMITTER NBC TRANSMITTER Published for and by the employes of the National Broadcasting Company from coast to coast. VOL. 5 APRIL, 1939 NO. 4 EDITORIAL BOARD Cari, Cannon Associate Editor Georce Olenslacer Staff W'riter Bill Eddy Staff Artist Charles Van Bergen Photographs N. Y. CONTRIBUTORS Spencer McNary Artists Service John H. Baxter Artists Service Dom Davis Production Address all correspondence to: NBC Transmitter, National Broadcasting Company, Room 284, RCA Building, New York, N. Y. Telephone: Circle 7-8300, Extension 220. NEW TRAINING PLAN FOR GUEST RELATIONS (Continued from page \) plan, which, Mr. Lohr said, would be extended in the near future to include other junior employes besides guides and pages. Mr. Lohr emphasized that there would be no change in the number of guides and pages. Although he estimated that it would be some months before the plan would be completely effective, he said that those moving into other positions would be replaced immediately by new men. “We have decided upon this move as being in accordance with the NBC policy of promotions,” Mr. Lohr said. “Wherever possible we attempt to make all promotions within the Company, but if a member of the Guest Relations Division has not been transferred to an established position within two years, we feel the fact indicates that he is better suited to some other business and that the opportunity here should be made available to another applicant.” The newly inaugurated discussion groups will be addressed regularly by various department heads and will undertake individual research in the several branches of broadcasting. Bertha Brainard, commercial program manager, I. E. Showerman, assistant sales manager of the Sales Department in the Eastern Division, and Clay Morgan, director of public relations, are among the executives who have appeared before the groups to date. Discussing their respective departments and their functions, the officials gave the groups much information to add to their notes. SPRING Once in every twelvemonth there comes that lush, interval known as Spring. The strident tintabulations of business give way to the plaintive tweet of birds, crocuses pop merrily from the warm earth and over all hangs the vernal urge. What matters then the intricate functioning of the engineering kaleidescope of broadcasting? Who cares if programs destined for the Red are pumped to the Blue? Spring is here and with its fresh beauty and equally important, running noses we sloths emerge from our long underwear to gaze ruefully at our be-doodled desk blotter. And so with a yawn, we ignore such realities as departments and dedicate this statue to Spring.