NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1939)

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8 NBC TRANSMITTER NBC TRANSMITTER Published for and by the employes of the National Broadcasting Company from coast to coast. VOL. 5 NOVEMBER. 1939 No. 11 EDITORIAL BOARD Don Witty Editor Howard Flynn Assistant Editor Robert Schroeder Assistant Editor Charles Van Bergen Photographs N. Y. CONTRIBUTORS Jack Kelly Guest Relations William Roache Guest Relations Tom Beckett Guest Relations Address all correspondence to: NBC Transmitter, National Broadcasting Company. 4-A Clients, RCA Building, New York, N. Y. Telephone: Circle 7-8300. Extension 220. KNOW YOUR COMPANY ( Continued from page 3) fan mail — and plenty of it. Probably fewer mistakes are made in the announcer's job than in any other comparable position, if you can think of another line of work where a man will be making public speeches from an airplane one day and from a submarine the next. When you hear one of these familiar voices of Radio City, think of the efficiency of Pat Kelly’s Division, which, through sleet and hail and electric storms, brings you your NBC chimes every hour on the hour. Ordinarily, a small space in this position would be difficult to dispose of. In this case, however, we seize the opportunity to remind you that there are some odd shopping days to Xmas. Vincent F. Callahan New assistant manager of WBZ & WBZA, working with John A. Holman, NBC New England general manager. WBZ BOSTON and WBZA SPRINGFIELD by Charles J. Gilchresf The beauty of the 400 young ladies, who, during the Boston Television Girl Contest, paraded before NBC microphones and RCA television cameras in the WBZ studios, explains why Contest Director Bob Evans had no trouble in getting all the assistance he needed. Traffic Manager Gordon Swan celebrated, in October, fifteen continuous years of active service with WBZ & WBZA. He started as an announcer, worked at various times as press agent, production man, salesman, artist, news reporter, special events director ... in fact every job except that of engineer. Office Manager Cy Young took a late vacation in mid October, but since returning refuses to tell where he went or what he did. WBZ Control Engineer Lantz got exactly two birds in the first four days of the hunting season. But instead of being disgusted he oiled up his rifle for a crack at deer and bear in New Hampshire’s mountains. Ruth D. Higgins resigned her job as secretary to WBZ & WBZA Office Manager Cy Young to become secretary to the Athletic Director and Librarian of Colby Junior College, New London, New Hampshire. She was replaced on the NBC-Boston staff by Miss Sonya Bussinias. Addition to WBZ & WBZA staff is Eleanor Sullo, stenographer in Accountant Bob Halloran’s office. Partially color blind WBZ & WBZA News Editor Charles Gilchrest went shopping on his wife’s order to get a blue topcoat to harmonize with blue and gray suits. He returned with a green one which clashes beautifully. Special Events Director Bob White celebrated the opening of National Fire Prevention Week by having a swell fire in his home. It gutted the basement, destroying solid mahogany furniture, hand painted china, and oil paintings. But his wife, a radio veteran herself, refused to phone him about it until his broadcasts were over for that evening. Announcer Fred Cole celebrated National Fire Prevention Week by being carried down a ladder from the fifth floor WBZ studios on the shoulder of a fireman. Fred took his mike with him and even the grunts of the husky fire fighter went out to the New Eng land listeners. Captain John A. Holman, United Slates Signal Corps Reserve, and General Manager of WBZ & WBZA, arranged a special series of programs over these stations for the army recruiting service. Television Contest Director Bob Evans flew Mrs. Evans, and the winner of the Boston Television Contest, Eleanor Aycock, to New York for a whirl of festivities in Miss Aycock’s honor. Only fly in the social ointment was the fact that both ladies were attired in identical gray kidskin jackets and chapeaux. The morning hour from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. has become the hottest spot of the day for D. A. Meyer’s control room engineers. Gene and Glenn are fed to the NBC-Red Network. Simultaneously Harvey and Dell are fed to NBCBlue Network. The WBZ & WBZA program at this time is “Breakfast in Bedlam.” The engineers also feed the regular Blue Network to the Yankee Network experimental station W1XOJ, and line-up tests are being made prior to feeding the Columbia network to the Westinghouse international short wave station, WBOS, at Millis, Mass. Add to all this the auditions and rehearsals regularly scheduled and you’ll see why 8 to 9 a.m. is “Bedlam at BZ.