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...stunt, the Eagle put him on the air (with his head in a photographer's vise so he would not stray from the imperfect microphone) in 1922. A year later he was current-eventing steadily over WEAF. His fan mail included letters from happy housewives: at last they had an easily assimilated news and opinion source with which to confront their cocksure husbands. "Please tell me," they begged, "is he right, or are you?" Kaltenborn is certain that radio began the political education of women...
Born in Odessa in 1895, familiar with 14 languages, veteran of hundreds of children's broadcasts, including the first (over WEAF, New York, April 7, 1924), Author Dorothy Gordon knows the faults of radio critics as well as those of radio. She chides educators and parents who "have consistently refused to cooperate with anything that has the word 'commercial' in it" and advises them to "accept the disadvantages of commercialism that go with the advantages of sponsored programs...
...noon in 1923 an inquisitive Irish baritone, waiting for the fall concert season and work, strolled into Manhattan's Station WEAF, began to ask questions. Attracted by his voice, a studio official hired Graham McNamee on the spot. From an announcer-singer, the neophyte soon became the best-known voice of the '20s. Fans first heard the familiar "Take it away, Graham," when he covered the Greb-Wilson title fight in the summer of '23, and the same year McNamee gave his first free translation of a World Series...
Only the strongest transmitter can send radio waves past the steel skeletons of Manhattan skyscrapers. Last week both NBC and CBS prepared to add potency to two of their Manhattan outlets. Already well along was an NBC transmitter for WEAF on a dandy hill near Port Washington, N. Y. CBS planned a more spectacular...
...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 could not afford to build and maintain superpower...