Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000685
Language:
English
Subjects:
Radio broadcasting -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- Periodicals, Radio broadcasting -- Kansas -- Periodicals","WHB-AM (Radio station : Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals","Kansas City (Kan.) -- History -- Periodicals","Kansas City (Mo.) -- History -- Periodicals","Cook Paint and Varnish Co. -- Periodicals","WHB Broadcasting Company (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals.","Cook Paint and Varnish Co -- Periodicals","WHB Broadcasting Company (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting",Kansas,"Kansas -- Kansas City","Missouri -- Kansas City
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The official magazine of Kansas City's WHB radio station, SWING printed far more than the station's schedule (which, as the title SWING suggested, relied heavily on music). From 1945 to 1953, SWING offered readers something eclectic every month -- profiles of entertainers on one page, discussions of citizenship in the postwar world on the next, with write-ups of nightlife offerings in KC, Chicago, and New York mixed in. WHB spent decades lobbying the FCC for clear channel status; the magazine's ambitious scope may have been part of the station's attempt to legitimate itself. But it was SWING'S first editor, Jetta Carleton, who later wrote a celebrated novel, that gave the magazine its distinctive style. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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"HAMS" ARE BACK ON THE ^ir Lots of "bands" and they give out with squeaks, squacks and squeals, hut not necessarily music. by HARRY VAN DEMARK THERE is another kind of "ham" back on the market in addition to the regular kind. The amateur radio ham, barred from the air since Pearl Harbor, has been released from bondage. Before the war about 60,000 Americans had amateur radio licenses and conversed via the ether waves in their strange lingo with other radio amateurs all over the world. These radio stations were silenced by the government for security reasons after December 7, 1941. The normal period for a license is three years, but the FCC extended these licenses; in August of this year they as' signed them a temporary band of lYi metres, which has put them back on the air v.ithin certain limits. ( Each amateur radio operator must have his license renewed by the FCC when it runs out. In order to get a renewal he must ~ yhow that he has worked three stations (talked with three other hams) with' in the last year. And on top of that each ham must have two licenses, one for the station and one for the op' erator. Right now the army and navy are using most of the bands that amateurs used before the war. So the ham is restricted to the 25/2-metre band. But even with this handicap a ham in Southern Massachusetts recently set a new record for this band by working a station in Pennsylvania. The report of this record shows the reception to be about 360 miles. The old record for the 2]/2'metre band was 200 miles. With this type of re striction the ham cannot do much about distance work — or DX as he calls it. More bands for the amateur are expected to be available as soon as the services relax their use. Before the war the hams had a 160-metre band, but they may not get this one back.