Radio Digest (June 1932-Mar 1933)

44 NewTbrk's Supreme Hotel Value... SINGLE from 50 And that's no idle boast. Just "ask the guests who stop here." • Not only the newest hotel in New York but the most centrally located. 1000 ROOMS . , . Each with a RADIO, a PRIVATE BATH and SHOWER, Circulating Ice Water and Large Closets. Many Other Features. 1000 HOMES UNDER ONE ROOF IN THE HEART OF TIMES SQUARE SUITES tK«N. ew HOTEL DISON 47<h St. West of B*way.NYC. € CHATTER BROADCASTING is growing up. Several stations have long since passed their tenth milestone and this year a fair number celebrate their first decade. WIP-WFAN, Philadelphia, joined the growing ranks recently. Other stations who to date this year had a tenth "birthday", include: WWJ, Detroit; WOR, Newark; WMAQ, Chicago; KFI, Los Angeles; WGY, Schenectady; WBT, Charlotte, N. C; KQG, San Jose, Cal.; and WHAS, Louisville, Ky. * * * Summer's coming, but it doesn't seem as though independent stations will have much to worry about businesswise, if the announced new sponsored programs mean anything. WIP-WFAN, Philadelphia, announces contracts with Lindlahr's Magazine, Reefers No-Moth, Inc. in the daily home economic period and Kruschen Salts for Time Signals. * * * The first magnetic microphone in Detroit has been installed at WJR. This "mike" has many advantages over the condenser type. It is not so easily damaged and it is not affected by temperature changes ... A most ambitious program is being staged at WJR by Frederick Stearns & Co. of Detroit in the interests of their product, Astring-Osol. The programs are on the air three times v«eekly early in the evening. Talent includes, as a permanent feature, a fifteen piece orchestra and a wide array of talent, and a different group of artists on each program. * * * There are many prolific producers in radio but we believe Georgia Fifield, of KNX, Hollywood, Cal., has established some sort of a record. She has cast and directed more than three hundred and fifty radio plays and created some two hundred rdles in radio plays. That's a mark to shoot at . . . Here's another one from the same station: Ray Howell, former radio technician and now an Through WGY'S short wave station W2XAD in a relay from Schenectady to Kootwijk, Holland, to Bandoeng, Java to Sydney, Australia, and back to Schenectady, the sound of the shot fired by Gov. Ely was brought back to Schenectady in approximately one eighth of a second. At left is Kolin Hager, manager'of WGY. bond Adventurer. nouncer at KNX, who presents an hour of all request music from midnight to one o'clock each morning, has received letters and telephone calls from each state in the Union, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Japan, Alaska, and South America . . . KNX, in order to stimulate listener interest in its station during the normally dull afternoon period between 3:00 and 3:30 developed a program that has accomplished the purpose beyond expectations. The program is billed as the Matinee Mirthmakers. It features an orchestra and a master of ceremonies and talent varies with each presentation. It is in the nature of a daily surprise to the dial twisters. * * * As this is being written plans have been completed for the formal opening and initial programs by CKWO. Main studios are on the twelfth floor of the Guarantee Trust Building in Windsor, Ontario, and supplementary studios have been located in Detroit. The Transmitter house is in Sandwich, Ontario. Air plans call for best Canadian programs available and features of international interest through a hook-up with the Columbia Broadcasting System. * * * United States Lines are using WOR, Newark, to present the VagaLord & Thomas & Logan, New York agency, acted for the Client . . . The Crowell Publishing Company (Woman's Home Companion) has signed up for a year over WOR. The contract was cleared through MartinRillings-Shaw Inc., Philadelphia. "Shopping with Jean Libby" is the title of the program . . . The Hoffman Beverage Company has renewed for another twenty-six weeks and Uncle Don Carney appears on a new "commercial", William S. Scull Company, makers of Bosco, a food drink ... A flood of letters from listeners has caused Roger Bower to revive his Market and Halsey Street Playhouse. ■L