Word: wabc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afraid that its New York outlet, WABC, might be a free ad for its rival, American Broadcasting Co., changed the station's call to WCBS (effective Nov. 1). Last week, NBC was at it, too. Said the network: FCC had okayed changing WEAF, New York, to WNBC. It was a good bet that to most listeners these changes in call letters made not a kilocycle's difference...
Burly Arthur works hard. Six days a week, 52 weeks a year, he "yaps at a mike" from 6 to 7:45 a.m. over Manhattan's WABC. Five days a week in winter he follows up with "an hour and a half of the same goo" piped to Washington's WTOP. And six days a week, he does an 11 to 11:30 coast-to-coast show over CBS. His weekly total on the air: 21 hours. His weekly income: more than...
...Missus. Before he joined up, many a U.S. housewife knew Sergeant Maypole as "my nephew Roy" of The Missus Goes Ashopping, a quarter-hour comedy-quiz program six days a week on Manhattan's WABC. He produced and wrote the show...
Kaltenborn left the Eagle in 1930 for WABC, key station of the Columbia net work. He was 52. Since then he has been a prize example both of radio's oracular virtues and its faults...
This sample teaser for Columbia Pictures' forthcoming comedy, The More The Merrier, was heard on 50 stations of the four major radio networks last week. CBS's Manhattan station WABC turned the silly gag down-to the extent of refusing to hitch the advertising plug to a newscast. Other CBS stations were willing, however, to mention McCrea's shower on variety and other light programs...