Word: wrc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holzman's letter during a shark-hunt off Lewes, Del., when I was roused by a shout from one of our party: "I got one!" He was Herluf Provensen, who was presidential announcer for NBC out of Washington until he became assistant manager of its Washington stations, WRC and WMAL. Sure 'nuff, he had one a 300-lb. shark, measuring about 7 ft.! It was the last of four caught by our party, which also included Harold Talburt, Scripps-Howard's 1933 Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist; Harry C. Butcher, Columbia Broadcasting System's Washington representative...
...Washington, Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney grumbled against "commercialization," filed a complaint with the Federal Radio Commission against Station WRC (National Broadcasting Co.) whose Christmas broadcasts included a reference to the Star of Bethlehem as symbolic of what electric light companies had to sell...
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...