Radio showmanship (Jan-Dec 1944)

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.

THAT little bug has got us. Its uanic is Radio. We haven't beeu in il too long, so niaybe it's love at first sight. We had seen the lady around lor (juite sometime, ol course, and she had looked good from a distance, but we had hesitated about being too impulsive. We waited, watching, listening, noting, investigating. We're glad we made the ga 1 ' s a cq u a i n t a n ce . Our use ot radio advertising has been of rather short duration, and our experience is limited, but there are certain features about our program and its operation that may be of interest to some because of their rather unusual aspects. We chose radio for our advertising because we believed that we would be able to get the most direct and intensive Buy It Wholesale by LAWRENCE F. ORBE, JR., general manager of New Jersey Flour Mills Nothing to Sell Public But New Jersey Flour Mills Create Dealer Preference with Campaign Supporting Retail Bakers coverage of the audience we wished to reach in the quickest way possible. After convincing ourselves of this fact, we began determining which of the metroj3olitan outlets would give us the most of what we sought. While the cost angle was, of course, considered, this alone in no way biased our decision. WPAT, Paterson, N. J., was picked, first, because of its local popularity; secondly, because of the rapidity with which it is winning one of the finest listening audiences in the entire metropolitan area (as our thorough investigation proved), and fnially, because its programs are dignified and conducive to good public acceptance. Too, since our products are sold mainly in the metropolitan area (which for tis includes a smattering of New England and then south to Delaware), WTAT gave us the coverage we wanted. (Due to the freight factor, which would put our flour at a competitive disadvantage, say, in New Orleans or Minneapolis, a national coverage would be wishful thinking on our part, and the subsequent waste of a goodly number of Uncle Sam's dollars NOVEMBER, 1944 • 375 •