NBC Transmitter (Mar-Oct 1941)

6 NBC TRANSMITTER WASHINGTON NBC TRANSMITTER Published for and by the NBC Personnel from Coast to Coast. VOL. 7 JULY, 1941 No. 2 EDITOR Roy Pascal ASSISTANT EDITOR Roy Dent CIRCULATION MANAGER Robert Schroeder Address all correspondence to; NBC Transmitter, National Broadcasting Company, Room 465, RCA Building, New York, N. Y. Telephone: Circle 7-8300. Extension 220. MEMO In the office of the Transmitter there are three items that generally make up the policy of this staff. The first is a reprint of the Declaration of Independence. The second is a picture of an eye floating bodiless in space. The third item is a quote, “Help Us Build a Greater Kansas.” The Declaration of Independence is the most obvious. We are not a reissue of a stockholders report or a dramatized tour manual. The Transmitter has always gotten its own news and printed it accordingly. The “all-seeing” eye, staring from the ceiling, is a reminder to treat our elders with respect, but never to forget that we will be elders ourselves some day. It’s a reminder of responsibility. The quote, “Help Us Build a Greater Kansas” impressed us as important. It brings to mind that NBC spreads from coast to coast. If you’ll glance at page 12, you’ll see that it goes far beyond these borders. Every station on the NBC networks will always find consideration and space in the Transmitter. We’ll help build a greater Kansas any time we can. There you have it. The Transmitter has always endeavored to say something. It is, too, entirely sympathetic to its superior’s suggestions and company policy. It has always bent a listening ear to the out-of-town stations, big or little. It all adds up to this: in the past and in the future we want the Transmitter to be worth reading. NBC WASHINGTON Two NBC Washington studios are undergoing changes. Studios “N” and “O,” through which most WMAL and WRC programs travel, are being reconstructed to allow additional space for studio engineers and turntables. Beginning late this Summer, engineers will play all records and transcriptions used over the two stations. The announcers are pleased, of course, but don’t be surprised if the demand in Washington for engineers far exceeds the supply on hand. Congratulations from all to Chief Announcer Bryson Rash and Page Don Collier. Bryson has received his LL. B. and is preparing for the bar examination. Don was graduated summa cum laude from Catholic University, and has won a three-year scholarship to Princeton and a medal from the American Chemical Society. Vacations are making inroads on the staff of WRC-WMAL. Fred Shawn, Assistant Manager, is staying close to town, just in case. . . . Auditor Ruby Coldenstroth is seeing the sights in Atlantic City, New York and Williamsburg. . . . Harold Thomasson of Commercial is planning a trip to Canada. . . . Bess Dees, Traffic, entrains soon for the great Northwest. . . . Ralph Peterson is in Florida for sand and sun while Announcer Dorian St. George slushes through the sloughs and bayous of Ole Mississippi. . . . Martha Cosgriff of Commercial is off for Cape May, and Eva Cluff, front office secretary, is puttering around her new house. . . . Looking back to vacations are Assistant Manager Carleton Smith, who spent his time on tees and greens and in front of the new baby’s crib ; Mary Mason, who has just returned from Havana; Don Fischer who made his a vacation-honeymoon. ODDS AND ENDS: Now working for Uncle Sam are ex-NBCers Margaret O’Neil with the Defense Savings Staff and Betty Bissonette at Camp Meade. ... A total of 123 news programs and commentaries Tom Knode Mary Mason, Director of WRC’s Home Forum, doesn’t like picnics. Ants, mostly. But one day last month she solved her problem. She gathered together twenty of her home economics friends, in Washington for the National Nutritional Conference for Defense, took them out to Washington Airport and entertained them at lunch, aloft, aboard two American Airlines Flagships. just before the flights, Cousin Mary originated her Home Forum from the airport, interviewing her sisters of the skillets and skeins. Here’s Mary with three of her friends just before the take-off. eminate from NBC’s Washington news room each week. . . . Bill McCall of Sound Effects, on the Red Cross network show, fell flat while pretending to be a man running and needed a bit of first aid himself. Among newcomers to W R C WMAL is Joan Harding, formerly of WHEC and WHAM, Rochester. Joan has a regular program for the ladies at 9:35 each morning on WMAL. Other new faces . . . Hilda Kirby, Commercial . . . Florence Cox, Program . . . Virginia Whitehead, Radio-Recording . . . Phil Joachim and Pete Cousins, News . . . Stuart Finley, Announcing . . . and Katherine Richards, Traffic. . . .