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...wall, anchor a 410-ft. transmitter upon it in 39 ft. of concrete. Housed in a control building 75 ft. square will be all the equipment needed for transmission. Two telephone lines will be laid on the bottom of the Sound to carry programs from WABC's Manhattan studios. Against their unlikely failure, CBS will send its programs to Little Pea Island by short wave...
...Netherlands, while Hitler's troops were staging their invasion. Last week Columbia Broadcasting System broadcast his Cortege over WABC, and U. S. critics, who had not been hearing much Milhaud lately, found that Darius Milhaud could still turn a phrase of hard-bitten counterpoint as expertly as any of his contemporaries. A massive, close-knit dead march, the Cortege Funebre was imposingly militant rather than sad, made The Netherlands' fall ring with the relentless finality of doom...
Last week, over Manhattan's WABC, the Grace Line turned radio sponsor to launch an installment plan-a twelve-day, $250 Caribbean cruise, including hotels & motor trips ashore, was offered for $25 down (before sailing time), the rest in ten monthly payments. Sailing: every Friday. Object: to entice the war-marooned U. S. cruise trade off the beach...
...announcer, 37-year-old Arch McDonald from Arkansas, adds a lingo of his own. A baseball buff from boyhood and a baseball announcer for the last eight seasons, Arch McDonald has the job of covering the home games of the World Champion Yankees and the Giants this season over WABC. He will collect a salary of $25,000, will broadcast in turn for Wheaties, Mobiloil and Mobilgas, Ivory Soap...
...kind of complaint arose. Although WLW's license continued to be extended for six-month periods, it remained officially experimental. Owner Crosley was, nevertheless, in business - so much so that he raised WLW charges for air time to a rate surpassed by only one station (CBS's WABC), equalled by only two (NBC's WEAF and WJZ), which serve New York City, most populous U. S. metropolitan area. Competing big stations contended that 500-kw. superpower is too rich a plum to give to one station in a competitive business, asked for equal power. Smaller stations, which...