NBC transmitter (Jan 1943-Sept 1944)

April 1944 11 NBC Distaff Siders Rule Supreme in Service Series NEW YORK. — First all-feminine undertaking of the NRG network is the new “Now Is the Time” program being aired for four consecutive Saturdays (March 25 through April 15) . The idea of keeping the production of the show entirely in feminine hands was born in the public service department of unacknowledged parentage, as a tribute from NBC distaff personnel to service sisters in the WAC, WAVES, SPARS and Women Marines. The half-hour program is a drama which highlights activities of all four branches of the service. It is written by Scripter Priscilla Kent, based on official data and field trips made by Miss Kent and Narrator Ernesta Barlow to service camp centers in the New York area. Coordinating the program for NBC is Jane Tiffany Wagner, NBC director of war activities for women and current chairman of the women’s division of the public service department. Nancy Osgood, of NBC, Washington, is production director, Muriel Kennedy is engineer and Marjorie Ochs is sound effects “man.” Representing other departments are Ruth Ann Brooks and Ruth Manley, script; Alberta Hackett, production; Bertha Brainard and Helen Shervey, program; Sylva Fardel, music; Helen Bernard, recording; Priscilla Campbell and Jane Waring, press; Sue Cretinon, news and special events; Peggy Myles, Jean Harstone, Claire Hyland, Lucy Towle, Aneita Cleary and Janet Lane, promotion and advertising; Phyllis Oakley, station relations; Angela Caramore, traffic; Irene Kuhn, public relations; Anita Barnard, public information and NBC speakers’ bureau, and— from public service, in addition to Miss Wagner— Margaret Cuthbert, Doris Corwith and Marjorie Loeber. Ann Kullmer, conductor, will use 24 musicians from her 30-piece orchestra for the musical background. Keeping the all-woman goal in mind, the four services are represented by women officers and network station personnel keeps to the same theme as much as possible. CHART TELLS BIG STORY -The War Clinic news and special events chart reproduced at the right drew considerable attention and favorable comment. NBC Covers the World — 1943 First Stanley Richardson Eye-Witness Raid on Berlin Jan 17, 1943 First Casablanca Conference, Roosevelt-Churchill Jan 26, 1943 Robert Magidoff Visits Stalingrad Feb 14, 1943 Mine Chiang Kai-Shek Addresses Congress Feb 18, 1943 First Edward Wallace Scoop on Bismarck Sea Battle March 3, 1943 Exclusive Archbishop Spellman Speaks from Algiers March 14, 1943 Exclusive Folster Interviews Joe E. Brown in Australia March 18, 1943 Robert Magidoff Tours U.S. Supply Line to Russia April 1943 First Grant Parr Scoop on Bizerte Capture May 7, 1943 First John MacVane “Captures” Tunis May 7, 1943 Exclusive Hollenbeck Interviews Capt. Clark Gable London June 5, 1943 Mme Chiang Kai-Shek Addresses Canadian Parliament June 16, 1943 Exclusive Elmer Peterson Visits Neutral Sweden July 1943 First Grant Parr from AFHQ Reports Sicilian Landings July 10, 1943 First U.S. Raids Ploesti Oil Fields Army Hour Aug 1, 1943 First Richard Harkness at Roosevelt-Churchill Quebec Conference Aug 11, 1943 First Major Howard Nussbaum Records Raid on Paris-Le Bourget Aug 18, 1943 Exclusive Bob Hope Entertains Troops London, July 17; Algiers, Aug 26, 1943 Exclusive Jack Benny Entertains Troops Cairo Aug 31, 1943 Niles Trammell, John Royal Tour Mediterranean Battle Areas Sept-Nov 1943 Merrill Mueller “Lands” at Taranto, Italy Sept 11, 1943 First Don Hollenbeck Records Landing at Salerno Sept 11, 1943 Exclusive General George C. Marshall Speaks to American Legion Sept 21, 1943 First Italy Declares War on Germany Oct 13, 1943 Exclusive David Anderson Reports on War Prisoners’ Exchange Stockholm Oct 19, 1943 First “Bamboo Network” Guadalcanal Noumea Munda Broadcasts Nov-Dec 1943 First Guadalcanal Transmitter Opens Army Hour Nov 7, 1943 First George Thomas Folster Reports From Guadalcanal Nov 9, 1943 Richard Harkness Covers Atlantic City UNRRA Conference Nov 10, 1943 Hollenbeck-Mueller Begin Naples Broadcasts Nov 14, 1943 First Report from Gripsholm at Rio Nov 15, 1943 H. V. Kaltenborn Broadcasts from Pacific Theater Dec 1943 First Cairo Conference Report by Chester Morrison Dec 1, 1943 First Teheran Conference Report by Grant Parr Dec 6, 1943 First Cairo Meeting with Turks by Grant Parr Dec 7, 1943 First Edward Wallace Reporting Direct from New Guinea Hdqtrs. Dec 16, 1943 Exclusive Pope Pius XII Radio Christmas Message Dec 25, 1943 1944 Exclusive Robert McCormick Flies Honolulu Aboard “Mars” Jan 22, 1944 First Exclusive Capt. Samuel C. Grashio Tells of “March of Death” Jan. 28, 1944 First Exclusive Official Announcement of Marshall Islands Invasion Feb 1, 1944 First Bombardment of Paramushiro Feb 7, 1944