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36 RADIO AGE for March, 1925
What the Broadcasters are Doing
WBZ
The Station
of Good
CHEER
A Picture from Life By MILTON LIEBERMAN
Miss Ramona M. Nelson, a soprano of note and incidentally one of the reasons why WBZ is popular among the males from coast to coast.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.— WBZ was a great cheer-maker in the land where it's always WBZ — " 'Way Below Zero," said the sailors from the U.S. S. Patoka when they arrived in port at New York recently. They had just come from the land where the Esquimaux squat in their snow tepees up in Arctic waters.
They were referring to WBZ, the Westinghouse Electric Station in Springfield, Mass. Part of the programs which they heard had come from Boston, where the Herald-Traveler operates a remote-control studio in the Hotel Brunswick.
"It was great," the crew said, "to listen in to the ship's radio after swabbing the decks with chunks of ice and thawing out our beards with oxy-acetylene torches. We got a great many stations, for in that land of white-washed bears and cheap snow, static is almost nil during the winter and concerts came in loudly. But the best station was WBZ. It came in as clear as champagne and the programs were great."
It wasn't long after WBZ got this message from the thankful "gobs" before they heard from the state of Washington, where lumber-jacks in the fir-camps had heard them.
"The \
busiest
person in
the studio"
is the title
served and held by A.
F. Edes, chief announcer,
program dir ector, host,
etc., of WBZ. But he
treats his work like play.
One reason that the sailors and lumber jacks so greatly appreciated WBZ was because through this station they received a greater variety of programs than through any other station in the country. It has thirty-two special wires and two permanent remote-control studios.
The two permanent ones are at the Hotel Kimball, Springfield, Mass., and in the Westinghouse studio of the Hotel Brunswick, Boston. Boston, incidentally, is one hundred miles from Springfield, and a two-way wire connects it with Springfield, where the antenna towers are located.
In Springfield, programs are broadcast by special wires from the Capital Theatre, Springfield Auditorium, State Theatre, Poli's Theatre, Court Square Theatre, Springfield Union, Cook's Butter
A Big Event
THIS happened in Independence, Washington, where one of the radio bugs ran through the town shouting that he had heard voices from the East. Immediately the town council voted this as
one of the town's most exciting moments since Lincoln was shot.
No wonder, either, that it caused a great furor in the land of trees, for the days are dull and the nights lonely. The husky jacks, many of them from brilliant Broadway, found great solace from their loneliness in radio, but for a long time they heard only the western stations. It was conceded by them that an eastern station would be a God-send, and when WBZ's thousand watts came flowing in they all sat down and wrote in to the station.
A great help to digestion and a substantiation of the popularity of "Music While You Eat" is the Westinghouse Philharmonic Trio which plays several times aweek from the Kimball Hotel studio of WBZ, at dinnertime. Gustave LaZazzera, cellist; Mrs. Eleanor Turner LaZazzera, pianist, and Gaetano Misterly, violinist.