Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Female disc jockeys, handling everything in the radio business from advertising to repairing "fouled up" broadcasting equipment, keep the turntables revolving every week night from 7:30 to 11 p.m. at radio Radcliffe's broadcasting studio in the field house...
...will now play a request for Fraülein Griselda Schmidtloser of District Wilmersdorf," said the disc jockey. But what the fraülein heard was not Buttons & Bows; like most Germans, she preferred Liszt and Brahms...
With such slight Teutonic flavorings, some well-known U.S. radio techniques (disc jockeys, quiz shows, children's programs, folksy announcers) are being used by Berlin's station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). The blend has proved so palatable that in a recent poll 80% of Berlin's radio listeners voted for RIAS over the six competing Soviet-controlled stations...
...also found out how to keep his fans interested. He spends most of his spare time writing postcards to disc jockeys, answering fan mail, getting around the country ("You've got to get out and let the people who buy your albums see you"), and dropping into record shops to wow the salesgirls. Says Frankie, who likes to say his success is all a mystery and not a matter of mugging, writhing and hard work: "I can't explain it. Some people say I'm a fluke...
Network maintenance men said they expected far higher quality in transcriptions from their new record players. The old ones will be rebuilt for use in afternoon disc jockey sessions which WHRV hopes to initiate soon. The network has also added new amplifying equipment and microphones to get greater efficiency out of their transmitters...