enjoying the new Jerry Williams book

[kvahey@comcast.net]

BTW we have had this discussion before of who as the first to put
callers on the air and the book hints that it happened in 1934 at WJSV
in Washington which I assume would later be known as WTOP. The station
put a young man in a studio at the transmitter and he invited people
to call in so he could find out how far the signal went. He would hold
the telephone up to the mike so listeners could hear the callers.
Walter Winchell heard him at a party and called in himself at 4:30 AM
and then mentioned the show in his newspaper column which was said to
be read by more people than anyone. The announcer was quicky hired by
CBS in New York. His name? Arthur Godfrey.

On 3/9/08, Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:
> Donna Halper wrote:
> >
> >> Scott wrote--
> >> Agreed! I'm reviewing that book, as well as another with more
> >> tangential NERW-land ties ("The Buzzard," by John Gorman, about WMMS
> >> in Cleveland), in Monday's NERW...
> >
> > So did I get a mention in that WMMS book? John, bless his heart, had a
> > tendency to take credit for things that other people on his team had
> > done... 8-)
>
> There are several pages worth of Donna in there, including the story
> (with full credit to Donna) of the discovery of Rush (the band, not the
> talk host!) on this side of the border.
>
> s
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