Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Angeles office listening to Adolf Hitler address the Reichstag (accompanied by a running translation into English). An ex-cavalryman, Vice President Weiss soon began to get sore at Hitler. Presently, after chewing a fat cigar to tatters, he remarked to his assistants: "This is the damndest program I've ever heard. This guy Hitler is a slicker." Thereupon, he popped into his secretary's office, dictated a two-sentence statement, stomped down a corridor to the master control room of his key station KHJ. Thrusting his statement upon a startled announcer, he barked: "Read this and flip...
...over to some Shanghai Nazis. Nowadays all Japanese ships in China waters have instructions to turn on their radio buzzers when Alcott goes on the air, but even when combined with land station jamming, the din they set up is not overly effective except in downtown Shanghai. On his program, Alcott usually announces when the interference is about to begin, advises his listeners to head for the suburbs if they want to hear him clearly...
...recently set another precedent by aiming at the U. S. a program exclusively designed for American listeners. Known as Britain Speaks, the new show, now a fortnight old, is a vast improvement over the stodgy stuff that BBC used to short wave to North America to be shared by Canada and the U. S. With swing bands and torch singers, brisk news and political comments, Britain Speaks (on every evening at 7:30 E.D.S.T.) is at its best when Novelist-Playwright John Boynton Priestley holds forth. Compact as a beer mug, with a voice as mellow as ancient ale, Priestley...
...Army has used the air waves, particularly in its Second Corps Area (New York, New Jersey, Delaware), to attract recruits to its growing ranks. Beginning with spot announcements that pointed out the advantages of joining early, the Army blossomed out six weeks ago with a regular program on Manhattan's WMCA. This week the Army's first network show will be offered by CBS to all its stations...
Patterned after the WMCA original, the CBS-Army program will pipe music by the U. S. Military Academy Band from West Point, stress the opportunities of advancement the Army offers. Interviewed by veteran Radio Actor Ray Perkins, a major in the reserve corps, new recruits will explain why they enlisted; old-timers will describe their happy lot; mess sergeants will dwell on the tastiness of Army fare; Army wives will rejoice about life among the soldiers. Adding dignity to the show will be many an Army bigwig like Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commanding General of the First Army...