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...tiny radio station WLIB and the Bronx Home News, a neighborhood paper that concentrates on marriages and bingo parties. She tried and failed to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, then as a consolation prize bought two radio stations, Los Angeles' KMTR and San Francisco's KYA (FCC approval of the purchases is pending...
...sponsor: San Francisco's Roos Bros, clothing store, over the city's KYA (nightly, 7:10-7:30 p.m., P.W.T...
Original credit for thinking that the U.S. public would like to hear the famed Japcaster goes to KYA's 6-ft., 31-year-old, South Dakota-born president, Don Fedderson. He got the idea one morning at 4 o'clock. It stood the test of daylight. It pleased both the FCC and the Office of Censorship. It delighted Roos Bros, who, in a trial poll on the propriety of the program, got 97% approval. The poll's heavy mailbag indicated that the program would collect a sizable audience...
...order to forestall panic effects of an Orson Welles-Martian nature, the Rose recordings are carefully introduced and Japanese tamperings with the facts of the news are spotted for listeners by KYA's news staff...
...advisability of point-to-point appeared when the San Francisco telephone exchange, short of telephones and help, wanted to get rid of the longshoremen's telephone load (some 225 work gangs average 16 men apiece). Twice a day, for five minutes only, KYA now transmits such information as: "Gangs 15 and 75 report to pier...