NBC transmitter (Jan 1943-Sept 1944)

4 NBC TRANSMITTER RETAILERS STUDY POWER OF BROADCASTING Radiomen and retailers met in Los Angeles recently for a showing of the Retail Advertising Committee’s 100-minute film , “Air Force and the Retailer ,” designed to shoiv retailers the advantages of local radio advertising. Left to right are: William B. Ryan, manager, KFI-KECA, Los Angeles; Cal Smith, director, National Association of Broadcasters, co-hosts at the Coast meeting ; Lewis S. Frost, assistant to the vice-president, NBC Western division; Neil Petree, president of Barker Brothers, and Richard B. Meybohn, advertising manager of Robinson’s — two of Los Angeles’ largest stores. Equally enthusiastic groups welcomed the film in other key cities. KVOO Man Honored for Wildlife Conservation • TULSA, OKLA.-In wartime many important peacetime pursuits are neglected. One has been the business of wildlife conservation. Tire rationing, gasoline shortages, demands of war work on spare time, all have contributed to a lessening of conservation activity. The situation was particularly discouraging to Oklahoma outdoor leaders whose Izaak Walton League was sworn to protect the State’s woods, waters and wildlife for the Sooner thousands in service or war work. One Oklahoman did something about it and, as a result, has been singled out by conservation authorities for commendation. In recognition of the achievement, State league officials trekked to Tulsa to present to Bud Jackson, sports chief and outdoors editor of KVOO, the league’s coveted silver-and-blue founder’s button. Jackson is commentator of “Short Casts and Wing Shots,” a weekly program featuring field and stream conditions and news of hunting, fishing, trapping and conservation in general. He felt his program could render even greater service in wartime by giving sportsmen a chance to participate in wildlife conservation activity, so he created a “Short Casts and Wing Shots” Izaak Walton League Chapter-of-the-Air, inviting listeners to join. RECOGNITION — Rationed travel couldn’t stop Southwestern conservation activity as long as radio was on the job! To prove it. Bud Jackson, outdoors editor at KVOO (Tulsa), here gazes modestly as Oklahoma League President George Draper aivards him the Izaak Walton League’s Founders Pin in recognition of his conservation work. WEAF Farm Director Wins CDVO Home Front Citation • NEW YORK.— Mert Emmert. WEAF farm program director, was cited last month by the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office for his “splendid contribution” to the war effort. Grover A. Whalen, chairman-director of the New York office of the CDVO, wrote to Emmert enclosing a certificate of merit signed by Mayor F. H. LaGuardia and which stated that Mert “has patriotically and generously contributed to the cause of Civilian Defense by promotion participation in all phases of home front activity; and has thus merited this award of recognition from the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office and is hereby enrolled on the Roll of Honor of Civilian Defense.” Specifically, Mert was cited for his “Plot for Victory” programs which were presented by WEAF in cooperation with the CDVO from the Charles M. Schwab estate on Riverside Drive. Each Saturday afternoon Mert did an on-the-scene broadcast from the victory gardens interviewing patriotic gardeners and discussing their many problems. The programs won wide-spread acclaim. Navy Academy Group Shown NBC Technical Highlights • NEW YORK.— Seventeen members of the faculty staff and student body of the Post Graduate School, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, recently completed a three-day session as guests of NBC’s engineering department in Radio City. The inspection and lecture tour was arranged as part of the officers’ training. 0. B. Hanson, NBC vice-president and chief engineer, and Robert E. Shelby, the network’s development engineer, planned activities for the group which was in charge of Commander Harold R. Demarest and Lieutenant-Commander Thomas J. Killian. Included in the itinerary arranged for the Naval contingent were visits to NBC’s f.-m. and television transmitters at the Empire State Building, and inspection of the network’s recording division and master control facilities. NBC engineers also conducted forums and discussions of current engineering research in the fields of communications and electronics for the visiting Navy group. The technical tour and sessions were warmly received.