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...March 23, 1922, over WEAF, from the stage of the Palace Theater, featuring the late Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and Dr. William B. Millar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Good Man | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Mark grew up in Jacksonville, Fla. At 18, he went north, went to work as an accountant for "a boyhood idol," Thomas Edison. At 19, he got a better job with American Telephone & Telegraph, which then owned Manhattan's WEAF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Network Without Ulcers | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Belles Lettres | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Listeners to NBC's key Manhattan station, WEAF, one day last week heard Newscaster Don Goddard say: "... a rumor came bounding into the newsroom. Emperor Hirohito is one of those in Japan who has committed harakiri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: How Rumors Travel | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Walter Winchell has dubbed George Putnam "the greatest male voice in radio." Putnam is the property of the National Broadcasting Co. and the vocal light of its No. 1 station, Manhattan's WEAF. Nearly a million faithful Greater New Yorkers tune in his daily newscasts (6:15 & 11 p.m., E.W.T.), and no local radio newsman or commentator has more daily listeners in the Metropolitan area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Voice | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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