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...were four bronze medallions, each the size of a hockey puck. Their name: the George Foster Peabody Award "for conspicuous service in radio broadcasting." Selected for the first honors were: CBS (among chains), Cincinnati's 50,000-watt WLW (among big stations), Cleveland's 5,000-watt WGAR (among middle-sized stations), Columbia, null 250-watt KFRU (among small...
Among the half-dozen U. S. stations which Variety dubbed tops, two (WOR and WNEW) were in Manhattan; one each in Cleveland (WGAR); Atlanta (WSB); Beckley, W. Va. (WJLS); McComb, Miss. (WSKB). None was in Chicago, which Variety rated the worst town for show management...
Nearly three years ago, a tall, plump, perspiring Negro preacher named Glenn T. Settle, trailing 19 dusky members of his Gethsemane Baptist Church, marched into Cleveland's station WGAR and asked permission to sing a few spirituals. The Rev. Settle and his flock were only fair. But to Spiritual-Fancier Worth Kramer, young white program director of WGAR, the colored choir presented a chance to try his hand at arranging Negro music. Adding 16 voices to Settle's original 19, he drummed his arrangements into the musically illiterate group by rote, drilled them for weeks before...
...Boston stations were rated as the most biased. Specific examples of biased broadcasting, supposed to be quoted from the N. A. B. survey: 1) Commentator Boake Carter: anti-Russian treatment of the recent Russo-Japanese border battle. 2) Station KGB (San Diego): deleting anti-New Deal news. 3) Station WGAR (Cleveland): anti-New Dealism. 4) Station WGN (Chicago): distorting the facts of FORTUNE'S survey of Presidential popularity when the station's newscaster said the survey indicated waning popularity for President Roosevelt...
...Father Coughlin switched off Tommy Dorsey's band right in the middle of their swing. The trouble was they were swinging Loch Lomond. Said Manager Fitzpatrick: "It is a sacrilege to make a swing version of a tune sacred to a lot of Scotsmen." Cleveland's WGAR and Beverly Hill's KMPC nodded their heads, pursed their lips and proclaimed a ban on swing versions of eleven old songs, including Comin' Thro' the Rye. At Manhattan's Onyx Club, where swarthy, honey-voiced Maxine Sullivan had been singing the song for months, Loch Lomond...