NBC transmitter (Jan 1943-Sept 1944)

May 1944 J1 AWARDS MADE TO NBC PISTOL RANGE EXPERTS Frank E. Mullen, NBC vice-president and general manager, recently awarded pins to NBC-ites with top scores in the NBC A. A. weekly pistol meets. Left to right: Helen Rodabaugh, engineering; Rita Alevizon, radio recording; Mullen; jean Harstone, advertising and promotion, and George Monahan, NBC protection chief ivho coaches the A. A. team. Additional awards were made to other high-scorers. Production and Television Appointments Made by NBC NEW YORK. Wynn Wright, NBC’s Eastern program manager was appointed national production manager of NBC on March 20 by Clarence L. Menser, vicepresident in charge of programs. In his new capacity Wright coordinates all interdivision production operations and assumes the duties of eastern production manager. As another step in NBC’s organization looking toward the expansion of television, Menser also announced the oppointment of N. Ray Kelly, formerly Eastern production manager, as manager of production facilities for the company’s television operations. For 15 years before coming to radio, Wright was allied closely with the theater. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Wright was educated in Detroit and engaged in little theater work while attending the Detroit College of Law. He abandoned the legal profession to join a theater stock company and played with some of the best known troupers of the generation. During World War I he joined the Navy and was made associate director of the Newport, R. I., Community Playhouse where he staged shows for servicemen. After the war he returned to the theater. In 1922 he became drama director of the University of Detroit, and in 1924 opened the Detroit Repertory Theater. In 1930 he joined Station WWJ, Detroit, as drama director, and in 1934 moved to NBC in Chicago as production director. He later returned to WWJ as program and production manager and went to London in 1936 to study British production methods. In 1938 he rejoined the NBC Central division as production director, and in March of 1939 became production manager of the division. Educated at Washington University, Knox College and Harvard Law School, Kelly came to NBC in 1930. He organized and developed the network’s sound effects department and was appointed production manager of the Eastern division in 1943. Nancy Osgood Named Head Of WRC Home Forum Series WASHINGTON, D. C. Nancy Osgood, WRC producer who directed the allf'eminine air series, “Now Is The Time,” succeeded Mary Mason, director of the WRC Home Forum, when the latter went off the air in April after eight years with the station. Miss Mason resigned to be married to a naval officer and does not expect to return to the microphone. Miss Osgood has an extensive background in radio. Since 1927 she has been with major stations and networks producing, writing and performing in programs of all kinds. She is recognized particularly as an able director of women’s programs. For two years in Washington Miss Osgood broadcast under the radio pseudonym of Nancy Dixon, shopping and contacting stores and reporting her findings in good buys. Previously she was heard in similar shows in St. Louis, Detroit and Boston. During the past year Miss Osgood has been with WRC as a production director and writer. Clem McCarthy, Ace Turf Mikeman, Joins NBC Staff NEW YORK.— Clem McCarthy, noted turf expert whose winged words can outrace the fleetest of three-year-olds, has joined NBC’s sports staff. Under his exclusive contract for sports resumes over NBC, his only outside assignment this year will be the Kentucky Derby, which he will do for the Columbia Broadcasting System under a previous commitment. At NBC. McCarthy joins hands with two other famous sports authorities— Bill Stern. NBC’s director of sports, and Grantland Rice, whose favorite stories are being broadcast Saturdays. When radio was looking for a broadcaster who could keep pace with Joe Louis’ punches, Clem auditioned and won the assignment to cover most of the champion’s fights. McCarthy’s radio coverage of Louis’ first bout with Max Schmeling is still regarded as a classic. Son of an Irish horse auctioneer and dealer, his earlv ambitions, naturally enough, were to become a jockey. Nancy Osgood Clem McCarthy