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...watchmen, charwomen, belated motorists, bakers, lighthouse keepers, lobster-trick pressmen, the boys in the bars and all the other sun dodgers standing the great night watch in Manhattan and all along the eastern seaboard have one companion that never goes to sleep on them. That cheerful stayer-up is WNEW's Milkman's Matinee, a 2-to-7 a. m. program of requested recordings, small-fry commercials and chummy gab conducted six mornings a week by a young announcer with a haberdasher's voice named Stan Shaw, "your very good friend, the Milkman...
...fidgets with surplus energy. His advertising business, though large, leaves him with time on his hands. This time he gives to his career as a broadcaster. In 1933, with Arde Bulova, he bought station WAAM (Newark), consolidated with station WODA (Paterson, N.J.), called the combination station WNEW. As WNEW's president, Broadcaster Biow infused the station with his own nervous vitality, put it on a 24-hour broadcasting day. A tireless dispenser of night-time recorded music, it is a great favorite with Manhattan's taxi drivers...
Last week Broadcaster Biow bought for less than $200,000 from Publisher William Randolph Hearst station WINS (Manhattan), announced that he would withdraw from his WNEW presidency and all stock ownership, assume full command of station WINS as soon as FCC approved the license transfer.* Meanwhile, Client Arde Bulova has been reported in the market for a Manhattan radio station...
Every morning all over the U. S., radio announcers, rain or shine, greet the new day with syrupy chirps. But at Manhattan's Station WNEW a dissenting note is sounded. At 7 a. m. the Early Risers Club are introduced to another horrible morning by Jim Grouch (forenoon name of versatile Broadcaster Bob Carter...