Radio Digest (June 1932-Mar 1933)

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Station Parade WIBA ^Madison, Wise. WGAR Cleveland EVERY community has its favorite sports announcer, but up Wisconsin way listeners will tell you they get more capable and more interesting sports broadcasts through their own regional station than they get over the networks. The reason is Bill Walker — William E. officially — manager of radio station WIBA at Madison, Wisconsin. His specialties are football and basketball. Bill Walker had sole charge of building station WISJ which went on the air for the first time September 8, 1930. One of his first problems was to get a sports announcer to compete with a university coach who had developed a considerable following on a competing station over a period of years. The final decision was that Bill assumed the assignment himself. What kind of a job did he do? Well, on June 13, 1931, stations WIBA and WISJ at Madison, were consolidated, and Bill Walker has handled all the sports assignments ever since, to the gratification of the station's thousands of rabid sports fans. Bill still serves as president of the W. E. Walker Company, an advertising , agency; he is business manager of station WIBA which has made a wonderful showing under his direction; for many years he served as vice president of Madison's largest financial institution, and he is the advertising counselor for some score of business and financial enterprises. But sports announcing continues to be his principal hobby. Interest in football and basketball has increased by leaps and bounds in Wiscon • sin during the past few years. But it isn't reflected in the gate receipts. And Bill is "being blamed, for hundreds admit pub i licly that they would rather hear him I broadcast a game than see it. TWEET — tweet — tweet — from the loud speaker to to the surprise of listeners came the shrill clear notes of a bird, a long sweet trill — as the unseen canary ran up and down the scales. There followed a sweetly plaintive melody, the "Song of India" clearly whistled—Ted DeTurk, Ohio's Own Whistler is on the air. Many have tried to whistle over the air. The sensitive 'Mikes' pick up all poor shadings and distorted harmony making whistling one of the hardest forms of music to produce. Never in Ted's whistling do you find these faults registering. Sometimes a string ensemble makes a backgound for the solo, again an organ, a piano, or an orchestra. Ohio's Own Whistler was born in a little log cabin, which may account for his ability to imitate birds so well, on the banks of the big Scioto River near Marion. He learned to whistle as a boy, in the way all small boys do — seeing who could make the longest and loudest noise. His whistling solos have been heard from the North, East, South and West on the ether waves, from Jacksonville, Florida, Atlanta, Ga., Denver, Col., Detroit, Mich., Cincinnati, Ohio, Iowa and other places his canary throat has thrilled listeners. Ted is also well known as a singer and accomplished pianist. At present he is heard daily from WGAR in Cleveland, Ohio. WIP-WFAN Philadelphia MISS ANICE IVES, radio's guide to home lovers, staged an old fashioned pie eating contest on her weekly WIP-WFAN Home Making hour. After the blackberries had been cleared away and the time clocks checked, it was found that Marie Lambert had devoured her pie in eighteen seconds. Marie is shown with a silver cup presented by the Gimbel Store. Jean and Sue Dalion, second and third prize winners, are also pictured. Despite the smile of victory after the battle was over, the girls admitted they had enough pie. Mim Alice Ca*h smiled her way to victory at KFRC Um-m-m! What a contest t They're full of pie. KFRC ■** San Francisco MISS ALICE CASH had her taste of fame and liked it! She was suddenly catapulted into the whirl of the public spotlight and all its attendant glamour, as the result of being selected winner of the KFRC Happy Go Lucky Hour's "Smiles Contest". Conducted by Al Pearce, the contest sought to uncover "the Pacific Coast's prettiest smile." Pearce asked listeners of the Don Lee network to send in their photograph. More than 15,000 were received from all parts of the coast and as far east as Salt Lake City. When the judges had dug themselves from under this deluge they came up with Miss Cash's photograph unanimously agreed upon.