NBC Transmitter (Jan-Nov 1942)

SEPTEMBER 1942 13 Stamp Award Goes to I Anonymous KVOO Star i # The Oklahoma Philatelic Society’s I “Legion of Honor” medal to the philatelist who made the major contribution to extenJ sion of the hobby during 1942 was awarded the KVOO “Stamp Man,” anonymous commentator on the program, “Postage Stamp Adventures,” broadcast each Sunday afternoon over KVOO (Tulsa, Oklahoma) . Presentation of the medal was made before a KVOO microphone by L. M. I Blakey, newly elected president of the Cover Collectors of America, and H. L. Whitman, president of the Tulsa Stamp Club, both prominent members of the Oklahoma Philatelic Society. “Postage Stamp Adventures” is now one of the oldest philatelic programs in radio, having been broadcast continuously !hy the same person over KVOO since January, 1929. TURN TO THE WRIGHT {Continued from page 4) lj| went abroad to observe British radio pro|| I duction methods. He spent 19 days at I I Broadcasting House, London, in 1936, and returning to Detroit, opened a new audii torium studio for WWJ where many I epoch-making productions originated, several of them obtaining nation-wide attention. He rejoined the NBC central division in Chicago in 1938 as a production director and handled many outstanding series. In January, 1939, he was appointed assistant production manager and, two months later, was again promoted to production manager for the division. He held the Chicago post until last month when he was transferred to New York as eastern division production manager. Wright strongly advocates some stage experience for all radio actors and directors. He still views radio as a great field for new writing talent and his advice to young authors is to break into broadcasting the trial-and-error way. If a script doesn’t click, he states, the new writer should tear it up and do it over again, repeating the formula until he strikes home w ith the makings of a hit. WSM NIKE AT CRASH SCENE; PLANE NIPS POWER LINE WSM (Nashville, Tennessee) sends The Transmitter this pictorial memento of the broadcast of a “modern miracle.” The occasion teas the revival of the 80th Division at Camp Forrest, Tennessee. Circling over the inductees and scattering pamphlets giving the history of the 80th in World War I, one of the fliers flew too low and clipped the power cable that was supplying WSM with electricity. Photo above shows the length of cable taken off the pole just before the plane landed severing WSM power connections. Inset shows the plane, believe it or not, just as it crashed in the truck. The man on the right, hanging over the plane is the aviator, who escaped unhurt from the crash. Half of the propeller teas taken off the plane before landing. The WSM program was being transcribed by WSM announcer hid Collins. The disk ivas rushed to Nashville; the crashing of the plane against the poiver line was audible in the WSM broadcast that followed. Rroadcast New Mexico Air Rase Flag Rites • The daily retreat ceremonies at the Albuquerque Air Base are now being broadcast by KOB, of that New Mexico city. When the program was launched. Governor John E. Miles issued a proclamation urging all residents of the state to pause wherever they were at broadcasting time and to make the practice of listening to the ceremonies a “part of their daily lives.” Lowering of the flag to the strains of “The Star Spangled Banner” is preceded by a concert by the Air Base band. The series was arranged by KOB Assistant Manager Merl H. Tucker and Lieutenant Howard A. Finch. Rig Georgia Response To Air Rubber Appeal • Final tabulations on the WSB ( Atlanta ) state-wide 4-H Club contest for the collection of scrap rubber reveal that 168 clubs entered the 10-day contest, and that a grand total of 119,067 pounds of the precious material was salvaged. Winning club, which received WSB Farm Director Bill Prance’s first prize of $25 in cash, was that in Blundale Community in Emanuel County; this group alone rounded up more than 11,000 pounds of scrap rubber. Interest was not limited to 4-H Clubs, however, as was evidenced by one Georgia farmer who, although 78 years old. collected 484 pounds of rubber single-handed.