Word: watter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herbert wanted to know how Follick's phonetics would cope with the word water. "I think," said Herbert, "the Hon. Member for Loughborough proposes to spell it 'uoorter.' Some cockneys leave out the T and call it 'wa'er.' Americans say 'watter,' but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Glasgow's John Rankin volunteered: "We pronounce it whuskey...
Every morning but Sunday at 5:25 the notoriously noxious air of St. Louis is purified by the natural twang of real mountaineer goings on. These upcountry proceedings continue for an hour over CBS Station KMOX, a 50,000-watter with some 2,500.000 steady listeners. They emanate from a radio group known as Cousin Emmy and Her Kin Folks. There is square-dance music, a female duo singing something like Back in the Saddle Again, a comedy rube act, a "Western instrumental trio," and Cousin Emmy, who best describes the rest of the show: "First I hits...
Rich, happy, dollarwise, Ed Noble knows a good deal about radio. Since 1941 he has owned and operated Manhattan station WMCA a 5,000-watter. If FCC approves his purchase of the Blue (it will probably have no objection), he will have to sell WMCA (no one can own two radio stations in a city). Ed Noble says he views radio broadcasting as a public-service enterprise ("I'd be perfectly happy with meager profits"). He believes that it can do "tremendous good or bad in the direction of teaching people government, education, private enterprise, and democracy...
WQXR, New York is a 10,000-watter famed along the middle-eastern seaboard for its unique program policy of sticking almost exclusively to live and transcribed high-brow and medium-brow musical programs. Last week WQXR branched out in its uniqueness when, after an anonymous six-week tryout, WQXR's new 9-to-9:15 evening news roundup was identified as the TIME and LIFE Worldwide News Review. The news is written by a small, special TIME Inc. staff from dispatches supplied by the 203 far-flung correspondents of the TIME Inc. News Bureau. It was the first...
...that no station can bounce its signals beyond the basic trading area of the city in which it is located. All FM stations in the same area must give identical coverage. Because of this rule, the biggest FM station in the land, The Yankee Network's 50,000-watter at Paxton, Mass, may not benefit by FCC's decision. The Paxton station, which cost $300,000, booms over Boston, Worcester, Providence, Springfield and Hartford, will probably have to receive special treatment if its experimental activities are to be transformed into commercial operation...