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One of the pioneers of network broadcasting, Niles Trammell joined NBC as a salesman in the network's central division in March, 1928. Two months later he was appointed its manager. Operating from two offices and one studio in Chicago, he turned in $1,000,000 business in the first eight months. While in Chicago, he pioneered the daytime serial program trend. It was under his guidance that the Chicago Symphony orchestra first broadcast a concert from a tin roofed studio during a hail storm. He also realized the importance of public service programs in network radio. Under his direction programs like the University of Chicago Round Table, Farm and Home Hour, Medicine in the News and many He assumed presidency of NBC July 12, 1940.
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Admitted to the practice of law in 1936 in Washington, D. C, Charles R. Denny, executive vice-president of NBC was an attorney with the Department of Justice from 1938-1941, appointed assistant general counsel of the FCC in 1942 and on Oct. 6, 1942, was named general counsel of the FCC. On March 30, 1945, Denny was appointed a commissioner. In February, 1946, as assistant chairman he was appointed chairman of the FCC by President Truman on December 4, 1946, being the youngest man to ever hold that position. In October, 1947, he joined NBC as vice-president and general counsel, and was named executive vice-president of the network July 1, 1948. Denny was born in Baltimore, Md., April 11, 1912. In 1933 he was graduated from Amherst College with an A. B. degree and from Harvard Law School in 1936 with anLL.B. degree.
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Starting in radio in 1929 as an announcer of WDBJ, Roanoke, Va., while continuing as executive secretary of the American Automobile Association, Carleton D. Smith, director of TV operations of NBC, first came to NBC Washington as an announcer in 1931. When NBC leased WMAL in Washington in 1933, Smith was appointed assistant manager of the Blue Network station. He was NBC's presidential announcer for the entire twelve years of President Roosevelt's administration and supervised the early development of NBC Television in the nation's capital and the opening and sub
Carleton d. smith sequent operation of WNBW. Born in Winterset. Iowa, Dir. TV Opr. ^e Sp€nt hjs early youth in the mid-west, coming East to
attend George Washington University in Washington, D. C.
For Complete Listing of NBC TV Network Personnel See Page 280
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