Word: wtam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outraged Clevelanders immediately protested to NBC's Red-network Cleveland station, WTAM, that the city's exhausted relief funds and long bread lines were not gagging matters. Bewildered, Station WTAM broadcast apologies, assured listeners that no reference to Ohio's relief headache had been intended. Residents of Beautiful Ohio needed to have it explained to them that in Broadwayese "from hunger" describes a performance so bad that it is done only because the performer must...
Before the Commission appeared President Merlin Hall Aylesworth to plead for the life of his National Broadcasting Co.'s seven stations (WRC, Washington; WEAF and WJZ, New York; KGO, San Francisco; KOA, Denver; WTAM, Cleveland; WENR, Chicago). His company had, he said, $17,000,000 in unfulfilled broadcasting contracts on hand. It had earned its first "small profit" last year on $20,000,000 gross business. It had leased 27 new studios in Manhattan's Radio City. A revocation of its licenses would ruin its business. Questioned by caustic Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, an intervener in the case...