NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1939)

JUNE, 1939 11 college. He still has a station, W2BRR, and any spare time will find him doing his own broadcasting. After his sophomore year at Wesleyan University he took a summer job as relief engineer at the WJZ transmitter at Bound Brook, N. J. He was offered a permanent job in the fall, and decided to leave school and continue with NBC. For a time he was at the WEAF transmitter at Bellmore, Long Island. Later he was a studio engineer in the Radio City studios. A pioneer in television, Mr. Buzalski was one of the first experimenters at the old RCA-NBC television station atop the New Amsterdam Theatre in Times Square in 1930. Soon after experiments were begun from the Empire State Building, he was transferred there, and early in 1934 was put in charge. Mr. and Mrs. Buzalski live in Cranford, N. J., and have a son, Bruce Thomas, age one year and six months. Florence Crowell In ringing the chimes for Florence Crowell of KPO-KGO Music Rights, put in a little grace note, please! Although Florence completes her tenth year with NBC this month, her acquaintance dates back further than that, as she joined NBC San Francisco on a temporary basis in its toddling days. Being a pioneer, Florence has had experience in virtually every department. She and Wanda Woodward comprised the entire Audience Mail section at first. Then she worked in the Program Department until she was transferred to the Music Library, where she and Kathleen Moore started the job of cataloguing the music then available. Although the long job was not completed when Florence left to become assistant to Claire Patrick, head of Music Rights, it still won admiring “oh’s” from the Library Association when that group visited the KPO-KGO studios and marvelled over the manner in which a song can be tracked down even if the title is incorrect or fragmentary. Florence’s experience in such situations makes her present work doubly interesting. She can detect a restricted song clear around the corner of some producer’s desk. She constantly studies copyright law and is an encyclopedia of information on Who wrote What. Who published it, and how many bars can legally be lifted from it. Rudi N. Neubauer Rudi N. Neubauer was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1904. Five years later he accompanied his parents to America to make his home in Chicago. All of his schooling was obtained in this city, including three years of night school at the University of Chicago. In 1927 he joined the Chicago Radio Shows organization as assistant to Manager to produce and organize trade and public programs for radio. He left two years later to become a member of the NBC Central Division as clerk in the general office. Shortly thereafter he was appointed cashier and assistant office manager, holding both positions for one year. Press of duties along with constantly increasing personnel prompted him to confine his duties solely to cashier of the . Central Division from 1930 on. One of the busiest men in the general office, Rudi still finds time to participate in a wide variety of recreational and social activities of the Chicago personnel. He is personally responsible for several of the popular organizations which now draw the attention of the entire Chicago office. His most recent promotional effort is the new Athletic Association for Central Division members. In closing, we might add that the droll, tall, broadshouldered Rudi has somehow managed to escape marital alliances. Eugene M. Hoge Eugene M. Hoge, network salesman of the Central Division, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky. He attended Swarthmore Preparatory School in Pennsylvania, and continued his studies at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Following his Thomas J. Buzalski Florence Crowell college years, he was appointed manager of a Frankfort insurance agency and enjoyed considerable success in that capacity. But radio appealed to him as a life work, and he resigned his insurance managership to accept a position as salesman with the NBC Central Division in Chicago on June 17, 1929. Three years of service followed, during which time he was also appointed night manager of the Chicago office. In 1932 he accepted the commercial managership of KOA Denver, Colorado. Sixteen months later, he was transferred back to Chicago and was appointed to the Network Sales staff. Tall, lanky, and never without a wide grin, Gene is one of the busiest salesmen in the Chicago offices. His national accounts, among others, include the Carnation Co. ( Carnation Contented Hour), Wander Co. ( Orphan Annie and Carters of Elm Street ), Pepsodent (Bob Hope), and the F. W. Fitch Co. ( Fitch Bandwagon) . Outside activities include golf, swimming, and, of course, fishing with members of the famous Kentucky Club in Hayward, Wisconsin. He is married, has one son, and makes his home in Evanston, Illinois. STAGECRAFTERS ( Continued from page 6) tion would be to list all who were concerned. We will be sincere and simple. Thanks, kids, you just done lovely. The cast, production staff, and Hubert Chain are to be, have been, and will be congratulated by all who were fortunate enough to see the play. Their combined efforts were worthy of the applause which followed the final curtain of a gala premier. FILLER— WITH MESSAGE Maybe the following should appear on the editorial page. But in our ingenuous way we find it impossible to dissimulate — so will come right out into the open and admit that when we had finished correcting (we hope) proof for this issue we found these three inches yet to be filled. Now we really do have a Message for you, but it requires only a few lines — thus this inconsequential introduction. And now! We’d love to accompany you all on your vacations, snapping pictures every minute. But we’re busy that night, so will you please remember that the Transmitter is anxious to see your vacash pix.