Word: wabc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chocolate soda, a sandwich, occasional sips of water, vast, durable Kate Smith topped the shattering, 17-hour war-bond-selling grind of moderately vast Charles Laughton (TIME, Oct. 12) by three hours and $1,675,550. She sat down at a mike at Manhattan's WABC at 6 a.m., one minute later answered the first phone call from a bond-buyer, answered calls for the next 20 hours at the rate of two a minute. At 6 p.m. she complained of a sore neck, asked somebody to hit her. No one did. At 2 the following morning...
Other stations-among them, WABC and WOR, New York; KFI, KNX and KHJ, Los Angeles; and KIRO and KJR, Seattle-do better. They often blend a mixture of news, swing, classical and semi-classical recordings and transcriptions of good network sustainers. Many of the stations report rapturous letters from workers on the night shifts, but sponsors haven't come a-rushing...
From a new orange and white steel tower, 410 feet high and clean-cut as a Sheeler painting, Columbia Broadcasting System's WABC, without any increase in power, last week made itself heard with doubled intensity over a large section of the Eastern seaboard...
...Saturday night, after Civilian Defense Chief Fiorello LaGuardia had described the new 50.000 watt transmitter's insurance against wartime interruption (if power lines fail, it can run on its own generator, pick up the studio by micro-wave), the shift was made from WABC's old antennae near Wayne...
Arthur Godfrey's schedule is bruising. Six days a week from 5:35 to 6:45 a.m. E.S.T. he broadcasts via direct wire over Manhattan's WABC; then over Washington's WJSV he holds forth from 6:45 to 9. His weekly stint also calls for a couple of 15-minute transcriptions for Carnation Milk, which are mailed to 38 local stations. Betimes he records sea chanteys and sentimental ballads for Decca, by which he makes $7,000 a year...