NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1939)

AUGUST, 1939 13 KDKA PITTSBURGH (Continued front page 9) Club . . . Many phases of KDKA’s history, broadcasting facilities, organization, and operation were high-spotted in an illustrated article in the July issue of the Pittsburgh Automobilist. the official AAA magazine . . . KDKA carried a number of special broadcasts in connection with the annual convention of Lions International. July 18-21. And every day hundreds of the delegates visited KDKA studios . . . KDKA is helping make the world baseball conscious by using the special Baseball Centennial stamps on all outgoing mail. Of course if the sponsors of baseball and sports broadcasts like the idea, that’s all right too . . . KDKA sent a receiving set to West Penn Hospital. Pittsburgh, so the patients in Ward 1-B could heai the broadcast of the LouisGalento fight. All the boys in that ward signed a letter of appreciation. Personnel Changes John Gordon Kresge became the new librarian at KDKA June 16, succeeding Don Dixon. Kresge is a native of Wilkes Barre, graduated in 1938 from Lafayette where he was an honor student, and came to KDKA from Camden, New Jersey. AAA Donald Dixon went to New Hampshire to direct a boys’ camp until September 1, when he will move in on New York to continue the musical activities which started when he was at Penn State as director of musical clubs, shows, etc. Don has written many songs, several of which have been published, and KDKA expects him to go places. AAA Fred Saviers, with KDKA for the past three years, resigned his position in the Guest Relations Department July 21, and left for Baltimore to accept a position in the radio department of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. KOA DENVER ( Continued from page 7) with his interesting stories and illustrations. To quote Radio Guide: “Use of nicknames is a typical Gregg device. The magpie he calls “the noisy magician”; the chipmunk is “a little convict”; the Alpine fur he refers to as “a Christmas tree with its own candles.” Nature Sketches is heard over the NBC Red Network Saturday mornings at 8:45 MST, 11:45 EDST. ANNIVERSARY CHIMES The NBC Transmitter salutes these members of the National Broadcasting Company uho, this month, complete their tenth year with the Company. Whitney M. Baston, transmission engineer. Enid Beaupre, record clerk in Sales Promotion. Joseph S. Bell, program director. Edwin George Cerny, Music Division supervisor, Chicago. Beverly Frank Fredendall. television operator. Charles H. Halsey, watch engineer. Alexander Horwath, studio engineer. Jarrett Lewis Hathaway, engineer. Stella V. Hughes, chief PBX operator, San Francisco. Coleridge M. Hutson, field engineer. Ann R. Jockwig, stenographer in Music Division. Ernest LaPrade, director of music research, Music Division. James J. Logan, carpenter's assistant. General Service. George R. Luther, tabulating clerk, Statistical Division. Phoebe Mink, w riter, Press Division. Dorothy McBride, clerk in Script Division. Thomas Henry Phelan, engineer. William Paul Popp, assistant general bookkeeper. Accounting Division. Raymond D. Scudder. writer. Script Division. Edna Seibel. typist and clerk in Announcers Division. Robert Evart Shelby, television engineer. Robert F. Schuetz, engineer. Fred M. Thrower, Jr., salesman, Sales. Selma Wickers, commercial program record clerk, Program Department. KNOW YOUR COMPANY ( Continued from page 3) desirable characters or subjects of amusement. 2. Statements and suggestions which are offensive to religious views, racial characteristics and the like must not appear in the program. As every man has a right to his religious views, so has he a right in his race. Radio cannot lend itself to ridicule of racial characteristics, nor can words derogatory of any race or nationality be used. 3. Material which depends upon physical imperfections or deformities, such as blindness, deafness, or lameness, for humorous effect is not acceptable. 4. Sacrilegious, profane, salacious, obscene, vulgar or indecent material is not acceptable for broadcast, and no language of doubtful proprietv will be used. 5. The introduction of murder or suicide is definitely discouraged at all times, and the methods employed must not be described in detail. It is the aim of the Gompany to broadcast drama plots free of morbidity. That crime is unjustifiable and that the criminal is an enemy of society must be emphasized. The lawbreaker must not be made an attractive or sympathetic figure. At the same time, punishment of the offender must not be overstressed. 6. Details as to the technique employed to accomplish criminal or antisocial practices must be minimized. This Company, in rejecting insofar as possible dramatic action that depends on crimes of violence for its effectiveness, believes that it is working in the best interests of the public. Law', whether it be natural or man-made, must be presented in its rightful character, as that of the bulwark of human rights and property. 7. Emphasis on insobriety is not permitted. Insobriety and consumption of liquor in general are unhappy problems in many households. They are subjects which radio should not portray as excusable. 8. Figures of national prominence as well as the peoples of all nations shall be presented with fairness. 9. Except in case of factual news statements, appearances of or reference to persons featured in criminal or morbidly sensational news stories are not acceptable. 10. The use of the word “Flash!"’ is reserved for the announcement of special news bulletins exclusively and ( Continued on page 17)