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Meantime, Eastern's Manager Eddie Rickenbacker plus a dozen other expert navigators sweated over charts and signals from Pilot Jones in a hopeless effort to locate the wandering plane. At midnight, radio stations, led by WOR, began asking listeners to "step outside and see if you can hear an airplane anywhere over your home." Promptly from five States came 227 calls reporting the plane. Once the lost ship was said to be circling Manager Rickenbacker's house in Bronxville, N. Y. When Pilot Jones at last picked up a beacon, one & all cursed with relief, identified it from...
Radio Station WOR sponsored the event, which was broadcast over a coast-to-coast network. Entries were put up by the various college newspapers...
Harvard will be one of the nine colleges which will compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Chin Golf Championship Tournament to be held tomorrow evening at 6:15 in studio number 1 of WOR at New York. John L. Allen '39 will wear the colors of the Crimson in an attempt to win a three-foot-high silver...
This scheme was tried out in Hackensack, N. J. by Newark's station WOR. Rather than manufacture and install a large number of Hopkins radiovoting attachments, a crude equivalent was resorted to. Listeners were asked to switch on an extra 40-watt bulb in the house when WOR's announcer gave the signal for a vote. The resultant bulge on the powerhouse chart showed that about 6,100 listeners had thus balloted...
With the inauguration of two-station broadcasts, WOR and WGN formed Mutual Broadcasting System on Oct. 1, 1934. They agreed to seek advertisers who wanted to utilize both stations, but not to interfere with each other's local programs. WOR and WGN also began exchanging sustaining (noncommercial) programs. Alfred Justin McCosker, president of WOR, became chairman of M. B. S.; Wilbert E. Macfarlane, vice president and business manager of the Chicago Tribune, became president. Mr. Macfarlane has been interested in WGN since the Tribune opened its station in 1925, has refused to let the chains dominate its policies. First...