Word: networks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago won the Met's radio auditions, and Soprano Teresa Randall (the Priestess), a finalist in the same contest. Baritone Giuseppe Valdengo (Amonasro), big Bass Norman Scott (Ramfis), Tenor Virginio Assandri (the Messenger), were all Toscanini veterans. NBC was doing its part in the old top-network tradition-spending an estimated $70,000 of its own money to put the show on just as Toscanini wanted...
Pink of Condition. In 1949, the network that Juan Trippe built is one of the healthiest in the industry. Last week, releasing its 1948 financial report, Pan American estimated its net income at $4,590,000 (nearly 50% above its 1947 net), on $145,216,000 worth of business, including $32 million in mail...
...summer term. At that time Kyra Kalinowski '45 and Ronnie Phoenix '45, who had been doing. WHRV "Swing Out" programs, decided to start, a station of their own at Radcliffe. With a $25 grant from the Board of Hall presidents and a donation of rejuvenated equipment from the Network, the girls set up studies in the second floor corner of the field house and began sending programs to dorm residents. To date the station has managed to turn out every scheduled broadcast except for one night in January, 48, when the transmitter line was cut by Moors Hall work trucks...
Programs are exchanged with WHRV through an open "telephone-line." At present Radio Radcliffe sends three music listening hours to the Network in return for special broadcasts, half-hour shows, and Charles O'Brien's "Ballad Corner." As the most recent angle the two stations are even exchanging announcers: Nancy Buhrer '49 does the Network's Monday night "Comin' On" program, and William Clark '49 takes over Radio Radcliffe's Thursday night "Swing Out" (popular music) show...
Station members also point out that Network men are handy to have around "when one of those infernal machines blows out." The standard procedure in broadcasting crises is to throw on the record "Pomp and Circumstance" and call the Network post-haste. Last term WHRV men installed a mike light for the girls, and David Barton '50 is planning to rebuild the Radio Radcliffe transmitter during spring vacation...