Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

6 RADIO DAILY Thursday. February 25. 1937 \EW PATENTS Radio & Television Compiled by JOHN B. BRADY, Attorney Washington. D. C. 2,070,640. Means for and method of detection. Stuart Ballantine, Boonton, N. J., assignor, by mesne assignments, to RCA. 2.070,647. Crystal oscillator circuits. Arthur M. Braaten, Riverhead, N. Y., assignor to RCA. 2,070,651. Wireless direction finding system. Harry Melville Dowsett and Louis Edward Quintrell Walker, London, and Robert Cadzow, Argyllshire, England, assignors to Electric 0 Musical Industries, Ltd. of Great Britain. 2,070,666. Modulating system. Frederick B. Llewellyn, Montclair, N. J., assignor to Bell Telephone Laboratories. 2,070,681. Oscillatory circuit. Harold O. Peterson, Riverhead, N. Y., assignor to RCA. 2,070,691. Electron discharge device. Percy L. Spencer, Medford, Mass., assignor, by mesne assignments, to Raytheon Manufacturing Co. 2,070,772. Method of eliminating hum in push-pull circuits. Arthur C. Ansley, New York. 2,070,779. Radio tune-in control device. Charles R. Bowen and John M. Southwell. Los Angeles, assignors of 15 per cent to Harry Scheiner of New York. 2,070,816. Gas-filled discharge tube. Carl J. R. H. von Wedel, Newark, N. J., assignor to Electrons, Inc. 2,070,958. Frequency determining ssytem. Harold O. Peterson, Riverhead, N. Y., assignor to RCA. 2,070,968. Anode for electron discharge devices. Cabot Seaton Bull, Hillingdon, England, assignor to Electric Cr Musical Industries Ltd. of Great Britain. 2,071,057. Electronic relay. Sydney N. Baruch, New York, assignor, by mesne assignments, to Nortron Patents Corp. 2,071,113. Detection of frequency modulated signals. Murray G. Crosby, Riverhead, N. Y., assignor to RCA. 2,071.227. Portable telecommunications system. William G. H. Finch, New York. Original application Feb. 26, 1936, Serial No. 65,869. Divided and this application May 18, 1936, Serial No. 80,313. 2,071,311. Micro-wave oscillator and detector. Ernest G. Linder, Camden, N. J., assignor to RCA. WHBY Expansion Chicago— WHBY, Rock Island, has moved into completely remodeled studios and is preparing a number of aggressive broadcasting changes and addition of several new radio features. Ivan Streed, production manager, has added Roy Maypole and Bobbie Lee to the stations staff, with Maypole to produce and Lee, famous a decade ago in radio as a singer and uke player, as a stellar entertainer on the outlet. WHBY is also organizing a dramatic stock company of professional actors and augmenting sales staff with two men to do sales promotion work for advertisers. CUcMec NEWSPAPERS and radio are now on the same basis in the press box as far as the unicameral legislature in Lincoln, Neb., is concerned. John Edwards, legislative radio commentator, got Senator Charles Dafoe, Tecumseh, to present a resolution okaying the ether links, and it prevailed. j Theil Sharpe, control room opera| tor of WOAI, recently opened a j transcription studio in San Antonio, where he makes transcriptions for stations and advertisers throughout the Southwest. "Shag" Shaughnessy, president of the International Baseball League, has resigned as sports announcer over CFCF, Montreal, due to heavy baseball duties, and is replaced by Frank Starr. February 25 Greetings from Radio Daily to Dpha Ellington David H. Schatzow J. F. Whaley of NBC has been appointed a vice-chairman of the Advertising Media Group of the Seventh Credit Congress of Industry to be held in Chicago, June 21-24. Fred Laws, advertising solicitor in radio for the past 11 years, has been appointed assistant sales manager of KSTP, St. Paul, Twin Cities independent station. The Milwaukee Junior Chamber of Commerce has made Russ Winnie and John Olson, WTMJ announcers, honorary members in recognition of the work they have done on the organization's "Executive's Club" programs every Wednesday noon over the station. A weekly "Question Bee" program has been inaugurated over WTMJ, with Larry Lawrence at the mike. Louis K. Lear, president of KIRO, Seattle, is launching plans this Spring for a $100,000 movie house in the Green Lake district of Seattle, where he is president of the Green Lake State Bank. When Marian M'Dermott, soprano, parts from W1CC, Bridgeport, in March, she sings a program of La Haye's new concert compositions as a parting compliment to Judson La Haye', program director. The Rambling Cowboys, the newest and most popular feature on WOAI, San Antonio, who harmonize and make merry music daily at 7:30 a. m., are averaging around 450 letters a week, 75 per cent of them showing proof of purchase. Russ Davis, late of XERA in Del Rio, is back again with KWTOKGBX, Springfield, Mo. Russ is handling many of his former programs with these stations, where he had served before going to XERA four months ago. Thomas Reid, after a month's announcing at KWTO-KGBX, has gone to KSD in St. Louis. During his brief stay in Springfield, Reid became one of the most popular newscasters ever featured on those stations. Before his work at KWTO-KGBX, Reid was with KFPW in Fort Smith, Arkansas. WSMB, New Orleans, has completed its transmitter for a short wave mobile set to be mounted in a truck and to be used for moving broadcasts. The transmitter will send short wave to the station where it will be converted into long waves and sent out from the station. Equipment can also be moved aboard vessels if necessary. FOREIGN LONDON — Electrical Musical Industries-Marconi Co., whose television transmitting system has been officially adopted by the government-controlled British Broadcasting Co., has cut in the price of television sets from about $450 to $325. SYDNEY— Recent figures issued by the government shows there are 860,000 radios throughout the Commonwealth, a ratio of 13 per 100 persons. William Robertson, formerly with V/SBT, South Bend, Ind., operated by the South Bend Tribune, has joined the Carter, Jones & Taylor advertising agency of that city as an account executive. Albert W. Marlin, manager of Station WMAS, Springfield, Mass., has been appointed chairman of the entertainment committee for the annual banquet of the Springfield Advertising Club. Leona Bender, whose main job is taking care of the secretary work of Hugh A. L. Halff, WOAI general manager, also participates in several dramatic programs, dialogues and dramatized announcements' each week. She has also helped with the news commentating and has sung in several roles on WOAI studio programs. MELBOURNE — Two popular American hit programs recently introduced here are "Community Sing" and "Hit Parade." Lillian Malone, staff artist at WCAE, Pittsburgh, is now Mrs. Frank J. Lonergan. Lillian, who is best known to radio fans as "Polly" Malone, will continue her broadcasting work. Charlie Hick, WSOC (Charlotte) program assistant, has been out for a few days with flu. WMAS, Springfield, Mass., has added the Springfield National Bank as a commercial sponsor. Wednesday and Friday p. m.'s the bank broadcasts a program, "Your Financial Counsellor" a five-minute talk on banking. Phil Alexander of KABC, San Antonio, is planning a trip to Dallas next month. A. M. (Woody) Woodford, former operator for WBAP, Fort Worth, has been promoted to chief engineer, replacing R. C. (Super) Stinson, who is now technical supervisor for Carter Publications, of which WBAP is a part. Stinson has been in Oklahoma City for past month installing new equipment at Station KGFG. MELBOURNE — Kay Van Riper's "English Coronets" is latest American serial script to be used by 3XY. "Coronets" was on the air two years from KFWB. NEW ZEALAND is now operating a new station, 2YA, which broadcasts on 60 Kw. making it the most powerful transmitting station in the Southern hemisphere. Station was officially opened on Jan. 25. The mast is 710 feet and it is located at Titahi Bay. PRAGUE— Construction of the new antenna of the Praha station has now been completed and the station is operating on its regular schedule. Construction was under the BlairKnox system. Would Govern Libel Suits Indianapolis — The Indiana Senate has approved a bill requiring three days' written notice before a party can file for libel or slander suit against radio or television station. A retraction within ten days by station prohibits recovery except for actual damage to character, business, or occupation. The measure now goes to the House for consideration. According to the department el Commerce. Mexico now has ISO,. 000 radio receiver*, 10 per cent 01 which are operated with batteriei. There are 75 commercial station*, eleven government-operated transmitters, two non-commercial cultural stations and 529 amateur transmitters.