Yearbook of radio and television (1947)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

ILLINOIS WSIV PEKIN— EST. 1946 Frequency: li*u jvc. . . .fewer: 2,£>0 w. d. only Owned-operated by. . . t ekin Broadcasting Uo. Address Arcade Bldg. ±>hone Number 1/47-15J5J 'iransmitter Location. .Route 98, 4 miles N. of Pekin Time on the Air 6:30 a.m. to local sunset News Service AP Transcription Service ..Standard, SESAC Representative Sears & Ayer Membership NAB Personnel Owners W. K. Patterson, G. C. Udry, £. L. Prabdoni General Manager . W. Kenneth Patterson Commercial Manager J. Ed Henry Program Director Les Carmichael Musical Director. Charles Timm Chief Engineer Emil L. Prandoni WEEK PEORIA— EST. 1946 NATIONAL BROADCASTING CO. Frequency: 1350 Kc .Power: 1000 Watts Owned-Operated By. .West Central Broad. Co. Address 1001 Commercial Bank Bldg. Phone Number 3-3688 Transmitter Location Bartcnville, III. Time on the Air 6 a.m. to 12 midnight News Service AP Transcription Service World, Capitol Representative The Katz Agency Personnel Chairman of the Board Robert S. Ken President .E. K. Gaylord General Manager , Edgar T. Bell Station Manager Stanley E. White Commercial Manager. Fred L. Vance Program Director Harry Eldred Production Manager Martin Bouhan Musical Director Herman Hampy Chief Engineer E. C. Callahan WI*RL PEORIA— EST. 1947 ABC Frequency: 1290 Kc Power: 5000 Watts Owned By. . . .Illinois Valley Broadcasting Co. Business Address. 9 12 Central Nat'l Bank Bldg. Phone Number 33881 Transmitter Location .4V6 miles S. of Peoria Coal Ho'low Rd. Personnel President-Owners Edward I. Altorfer, John H. Altorfer, John M. Camp, Katherine A. Swain, Timothy W. Swain General Manager John M. Camp WMBD PEORIA— EST. 1927 COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM Frequency: 1470 Kc Power: 5000 d.; 1000 n. Owned-Operated By.. Peoria Broadcasting Co. Addiess First National Bank Bldg. Phone Number 7133 Transmitter Location Highway No. 29, Time on the Air ly V4 hours daily; News Service .UP & AP Transcription Service NBC Thesaurus Representative. Free & Peters, Inc. Personnel President Edgar L. Bill General Manager ............... Edgar L. Bill Exec. Vice-President Charles C. Caley Merchandising Manager. .... .Howard G. Bill Chief Engineer .A. James Ebel WMMJ PEORIA— EST. 1946 Frequency: 1020 Kc. . .Power: 1000 w. d. only Owned-Operated By ..... . Mid-State Broad. Co. Address .Fulton at Jefierson Phone Number 8527 Transmitter Location .Highview Rd., Time on the Air 6 a.m. to local sunset News Service ........................... UP Transcription Service Standard, SESAC Representative John E. Pearson Co. Personnel President and Gen. Mgr. ....... Wm. J. Kutsch Commercial Manager Albert E. Kauffman Chief Engineer. T. A. Giles WW XL PEORIA— EST. 1947 Frequency: 1580 Kc. Power: 1000 Watts d. only Owned-Operated By. . . .Central Illinois Radio Corp. Business Address Hotel Jefferson Phone Number .9106 Transmitter Location ............ Creve Coeur Time on the Air. ....... .6 a.m. to local sunset News Service .INS, UP Transcription Service Associated, SESAC Membership NAB Personnel President-Owner Joseph H. Giddan Commercial Manager A. B. Kershenbaum Chief Engineer Chuck Bilyue WTAD QUINCY— EST. 1926 COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM Frequency: 930 Kc. Power: 1000 Watts Owned-Operated By. . .Lee Broadcasting, Inc