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NBC TRANSMITTER
A Transmitter Bio:
KSTP CHIEF A PIONEER IN RADIO AND AVIATION
STANLEY E. HUBBARD
• KSTP’s president, general manager and co-founder, Stanley E. Hubbard, has the distinction of getting in on the ground floor of the two fastest-growing industries of modern times, radio and aviation.
Mr. Hubbard was born June 26, 1896, in Red Wing, Minnesota, where his father was superintendent of schools. His education consisted of St. Paul public schools, the .Sheldon School in New York and the University of Minnesota. While going to school he built, in 1912, the first amateur radio transmitter in Minnesota.
So, when America declared war in 1917, it was not unusual that he immediately enlisted in the Signal Corps, joining the 1st New York Battalion. He served overseas and was not discharged until March, 1919, at which time he immediately established Hubbard Field in Louisville, Kentucky. Then, in a few months, he organized the first commercial air line in the Ehiited States, the Ohio Valley AiroTransport Company, which operated daily air service with five passenger planes between Louisville and Cincinnati.
Mr. Hubbard was associated with the air transport industry for three years, during which time he organized the Seaboard Consolidated Air Lines and laid out air routes still used by air lines today. In 1922, he was appointed chief of the Internal Revenue Bureau air service and organized the patrols which played such an imj)ortant part in a{)prehending rum smugglers.
But in 1923, he quit the Government post to return to the home of his parents in Minneapolis and resume his radio experiments which were interrupted by the war. In a few months he entered the field of radio broadcasting with WAMD, which was enlarged to 1,000 watts by 192.5. When fire destroyed this station in 1927 he erected KSTP, then 10,000 watts, and later expanded this to 25,000 watts. Today KSTP is a 50,000-walt station with an outstandiiig service record.
Mr. Hubbard is Third District member of the NBC Stations Planning and Advisory Board. He is active in civic affairs, and is a state aeronautic commissioner and one of the leaders in the drive to prevent the flying of unlicensed planes in Minnesota. He is a member of the Junior Association of Commerce, the Town and Country Club, the Athletic Club, the American Legion and the St. Paul Aviation Club.
WTIC's Service Paper
Off to Rousing Start
• WTIC (Hartford, Connecticut) has launched Tie Toe, a studio “newspaper,” to keep the boys in the service and those on leave doing government work informed about studio events.
The first weekly issue rolled off the press September 16. It contained the minutes of the monthly staff meeting at which General Manager Paul W. Morency suggested the service paper and named Continuity Editor Grace Sapsuzian as editor.
WTIC has 11 men in the armed service, and seven on leave for special government work connected with the war effort. The service paper will serve as a constant link keeping them informed of the latest doings at the studio and transmitter. In addition. Tic Toe contains addresses of those in the service, letters from them to the editor and articles of special interest.
One of the first responses to Tic Toe, which was mailed out as a surprise to the boys in the war effort, came from Sergeant Bruce Kern, of the Public Relations Office at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Kern was a top-flight announcer at WTIC and the first announcer to be drafted. Wrote Kern: “Tic Toe certaiidy is a morale builder for the boys in the service. Gosh, you can’t realize how much it means.”
EVELYN CLARK
(Story below)
NBC Girl Brightens N. Y. Subway Wartime Dimout
• The comely young lady in the photo above brightened the dimmed-out atmosphere for New York’s subway riding millions last month when her features adorned a car card proclaiming her as “Miss Subways.” And her selection was particularly cheered by NBC folk who recognized “Glamorous New Yorker Evelyn Clark” as an NBC secretary on the personnel staff.
The legend on the car card read “This Provo, Utah, girl is a personnel worker at NBC. Also a crack athlete — and a trained singer. If her voice matches her face, she should he on their network.”
Evelyn is 22 years old and the wife of Private Sidney J. Laden, now at Fort Riley, Kansas. She is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and has hazel eyes and curled blonde hair. She entered the “Miss Subways” competition at the suggestion of Helen M. Korday, NBC women’s placement supervisor, and was selected by the beauty expert, John Robert Powers, for the rapid transit glamorization.
Musical Salute
• Fhe staff band of WSM (Nashville, Tennessee I takes time out two times a week to join other musicians at the local railroad station to bid the boys good-bye as they leave for training in the Armed Forces. In addition, the music lads have donated their services to play at camps.