Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every morning all over the U. S., radio announcers, rain or shine, greet the new day with syrupy chirps. But at Manhattan's Station WNEW a dissenting note is sounded. At 7 a. m. the Early Risers Club are introduced to another horrible morning by Jim Grouch (forenoon name of versatile Broadcaster Bob Carter...
...role in I'd Rather Be Right, some such couplet could be added to the lyrics about "one boy with du Pont, and another one with Hearst." For last week Son-With-Hearst Elliott Roosevelt made a deal to affiliate his newly formed Texas State Network of radio stations with the Mutual Broadcasting System, whose stock is 50%-owned by the anti-Roosevelt Chicago Tribune's Station WGN. Bamberger's Station WOR (Newark) owns the other half...
...Roosevelt's Texas radio career began in 1935. When Hearst Radio, Inc. acquired Station KTSA (San Antonio), it also acquired the vice president in charge of sales, Elliott Roosevelt. Early this year his present wife, the onetime Ruth Googins, bought Station KFJZ (Fort Worth). Elliott has declared emphatically that Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt's station-buying activities were financed by their own money, are completely independent of his Hearst Radio...
Commentator Carter talked himself into trouble with C. I. O. unions. Pickets marched in front of Station WCAU (Philadelphia) where he did his broadcasting, and it was persistently rumored that his five-year-long association with his sponsor, the Philco Radio & Television Corp., would not outlast the contract then in effect. At the beginning of 1938 Newscaster Carter and Philco parted company. Promptly he was signed by General Foods to broadcast for Huskies and Post Toasties. Thereupon Philadelphia's C. I. O. Council passed a boycott resolution against General Foods products...
Much to the annoyance of all parties to this agreement, a third Pittsburgh station, bustling KQV, impudently proceeded to pirate not only the broadcasts of the Pirates' out-of-town games, but of home games as well. The Pirates' owners joined NBC and its two sponsors in an appeal to the courts...