Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disc jockey's turntable began to look like radio's wheel of fortune and by last week, two networks had bought a share of the earnings...
...five days a week. Mutual last week opposed him with an older spinster: Martin Block. From his four sponsors, Whiteman will gross $208,000 a year; Block will get $312,000, plus a couple of hundred thousand more from Manhattan's WNEW and Los Angeles' KFWB (altogether, disc jockeying's top dollar...
...Arthur Godfrey (Manhattan's WCBS and Washington's WTOP) makes $150,000. Ray Perkins (Denver's KFEL), top jockey in the Rocky Mountain region, isn't bragging about what he makes, but he likes Colorado. Jockey Jack Eigen has the newest gimmick: a wee-hours disc show in the lounge of Manhattan's glossy Copacabana nightclub. The chance to chatter at a microphone brings the nightspot dozens of extra celebrities, and $4,000 a week in extra bar chits...
...told back in 1926 before he entered radio, as having happened to an Uncle "Gee Bee," a radio uncle on the now defunct New York station WGBS. Incidentally . . . Uncle Don started a new half-hour series on WOR March 1 in the new role of "Children's Disc Jockey...
Loud Holes. This is roughly the way many sirens work, but Inventor White has added something extra. The channels in his steel disc are designed to act as resonators, i.e., to intensify sound waves. When they are closed by the wheel's teeth, the air rushing through them stops suddenly. A compression (sound) wave builds up, reverberates back & forth as if the channel were a tiny organ pipe. When the wheel is revolving at proper speed, the wave snaps back just in time to find the end of the channel uncovered. It pops out into the open, carrying with...