Radio annual (1939)

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according to Powel Crosley, Jr., President of the Crosley Corporation. The studio will be used by WLW of Cincinnati, world's most powerful broadcasting station, and will enable it to bring direct broadcasts from the Fair to a large section of the Middle West. The WLW studio will be used for interviews with celebrities visiting the Fair, programs relating to Fair subjects, international events and spot news broadcasting. Many of the WLW broadcasts will be made available to the Mutual network. WNYC Studios The Queens Studios of the Municipal Broadcasting System will be located on the mezzanine of the New York City Building. Mr. Morris S. Novick, Station Manager of WNYC, in describing the layout, stressed its ultra-modern note and flexibility. WNYC will have two large studios, the third being for announcing and transcription. The large Master Control where all switching will be done, will be equipped with powerlight indicators, three loudspeakers and television receiver. The announcers' booth will provide a birdseye view of the vast auditorium where exhibits will be on display. A portable sound truck will make possible the recording of special effects and programs throughout the Site for subsequent instantaneous reproduction as desired on the studios' transcription equipment. Broadcasts will also originate from the theatre in the New York City Building. The Queens Studios will remain a permanent adjunct of the Municipal Broadcasting System after the conclusion of the Fair. Static-less Radio Arrangements have been conv pleted by the New York World's Fair of 1939 with Major Edwin H. Armstrong, inventor of the new static-less radio system, and with Mr. John V. L. Hogan, owner of Station WQXR, to present the inaugural program using the new wave from the Fair site, an impressive broadcast dedicating what promises to be a far-reaching technical advance. Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr., commenting on the new system in the New York Times of January 22, 1939, says: "Static-less radio, the goal of inventors, the hope of wireless operators, the answer to the broadcast listener's prayer, was demonstated in New York during the past week by Major Edwin H. Armstrong, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Not only has the Major and his engineering crew succeeded in dodging static but they give to radio a remarkable system of puretoned broadcasting. So realistic is the music it seems that the listener is sitting amid the musicians. Conclusion The 1939 New York World's Fair will truly be "A Radio and Television Fair." Every phase of broadcasting has been included in the exhibits. Broadcasting companies, manufacturers and radio talent expenditures will run into the millions. Persons all over the world attending the World's Fair will be given the opportunity to witness Broadcasting from its embryonic stages to the finished product of Television. 64