KFXD Boosts Its Power, KOMA OKLAHOMA CITY Moves to 580 kc Channel NOW A 50 KW OUTLET KFXD, Intermountain Network KOMA Oklahoma City has joined outlet at Boise-Nampa, Ida., for- the ranks, of the nation's 50 kw merly heard at 1230 kc with 250 w, stations, and Kenyon Brown, began operation Jan. 27 with 1 kw KOMA's general manager, heralds day and night on 580 kc. Simul- the event as a major step in the taneously KFXD launched its FM CBS affiliate's $300,000 expansion affiliate, KFXD-FM, on Channel program. 267 (101.3 me) with 2500 w. The In preparation for its switch to occasion was marked by a Salute .-.; increased power KOMA built a to KFXD broadcast from Salt Lake new transmitter plant on a 140- City over the 15-station Intermoun- WAYS officers (l to r) include MT. WhitmiTe, Mr. Thoms, MT. Dowdy, acre plot ten miles south of Okla- tain system. . Mr. Doughton. homa's capital city at Moore, Okla. The modern building houses the 50 KFXD's new transmitter is lo- authorizing FM operation with 20 kw Western Electric transmitter, cated three miles south of Meridian, WAYS BOOSTS POWER, kw on 102.9 mc. and additional floor space has been Ida., midway between Boise and In connection with the daytime PLANS FM OPERATION provided for the station's FM Nampa. Owners of KFXD are AM operation of WAYS with in- WA YS Charlotte, N. C., celebrat- transmitter. Frank Hurt and his son, Ed. The creased power, the station an- ing its fifth anniversary last week, M. W. Thomas, KOMA's chief latter, who serves as chief engi- nounced that it has purchased a announced that it had increased its engineer, directed the installation neer, was injured seriously during new transmitter, a Collins 21-A daytime operat- work, assisted by engineers George erection of one of the station's new model. The transmitter is located ing power f'romj Berry and Harry Edwards. The S27-ft. antenna towers, but is re- in an 87-acre tract owned by kw to 5 kw, with new Ko.MA plant is described in ported to be recovering rapidly. WAYS in the Oakboro section the frequency re- an article in the January issue of eight miles from Charlotte. ma ining at 610 the engineering publication, 08- For the FM operation, which KGBC, Galveston Daytime kc. Station will cillaior. will be on a six-hours-a-day basis continue to use 1 The new 50 kw station began Outlet, Launched Feb. 1 duplicating AM programs, WAYS kw at night. operation as KFJF on Sept. 7, will build a new 435-ft. tower on KGBC Galveston went on the air Simultaneously 1923, when it went on the air with this tract. Cost of construction is Feb. 1 as a 1-kw daytime outlet on Walter H. Goan, 20 w power. There have been sev- estimated at $75,000, Mr. Goan 1540 kc. Station is owned by James WAY S general eral changes of ownership, and the W. Bradner Jr., doing business as said. Mr. Goan manager, an- station has occupied four different President of Inter-City Adver- the Galveston Broadcasting Co. nounced that the dial positions. Hearst Radio ac- Equipment includes a Raytheon tising Co. is George W. Dowdy. Inter-City Advertising Co., which quired KOMA in 1936, and three Other officers are: B. T. Whitmire, transmitter and a 200-ft. 'guyed owns WAYS and WKIX Columbia, years later the FCC approved vice president; H. H. Thoms, sec- wind turbine tower. Speech input S. C., immediately would start con- Hearst's sale of the station to the retary; J. H. Doughton, treasurer. equipment was secured from Gray- struction of an FM outlet for late J. T. Griffin. In 1946 KOMA bar Electric Co. including Inter- WAYS. The FCC on Jan. 31 grant- won the top award in national national Electronic desk with QRK ed to WAYS a construction permit WESC TO START SOON competition for outstanding local turntables, a Western Electric con- public service. sole and a Presto recorder. AT GREENVILLE, S. C. Since last summer KOMA has Jerry Fisher, formerly of KVIC Transmitter Work Begun WESC, owned by the Greenville originated Oklahoma Roundup, Victoria, . Tex., is manager of Broadcasting Co., is planning to 8: 15-9 a.m. daily, for the entire KGBC. Other staff members in- For New Waterloo Outlet begin operations early in March, CBS network. The station is con- clude: Dean Turner, formerly with WATERLOO Broadcasting Co., as a 5 kw clear channel daytime nected in management with an- the Texas Quality Network and which received a grant recently to independent on 660 kc, the station other CBS affiliate, KTUL Tulsa. more recently with WHHM Mem- operate an AM station with 1 kw on management has announced. Most KOMA's frequency under its in- phis, program director; Orland O. 1090 kc at Waterloo, Iowa [BROAD- of the staff selections already have creased power remains at 1520 kc. Dodson, news editor; Jesse Sims, CASTING,Dec. 2, 1946], has started been made. chief engineer. construction of its transmitter Caldwell Cline, formerly with Cella, Turner Retire building, C. R. Miller, president of WBBM Chicago as night produc- Firm in Lancaster, S. C. the firm, announces. Call letters of tion supervisor, has been named J. B. CELLA and BURTON B. TURNER have announced their re- Is Awarded FM License the station will be KA YX. program director. Ken Keese for- Plans call for a concrete block mer program director for W A TL tirement from the California Vine- LICENSE to operate an FM sta- house with an insulated concrete Atlanta, will be musical director yards Assn. and the Roma Wine tion (with 3 kw transmitter and roof. Transmitter and studio equip- and organist, and his wife, Jackie Co. Brig. Gen. J. K. Herbert has an 8-bay antenna, providing effec- ment will be supplied by Raytheon, Keese, formerly on the staff of been named head of the firm. Mr. tive radiated power of 12.5 kw ) and a Wincharger tower will be WMAL Washington, will handle Cella, founder of Roma, is retiring has been granted to the Lancaster erected. traffic. Promotion will be in charge as vice president and director of Broadcasting Co., Lancaster, S. C., Schenley Distillers Corp. and as KA YX contemplates a tie-in with of Harman 1. Moseley, formerly it was announced last week. the Iowa Tall Corn Network and promotion director of WWNC chairman of the board of the Cali- All stock of Lancaster Broad- will use the UP wire service, Mr. Asheville. Arthur Roberts, who has fornia Vineyards Assn. casting is owned by Springs Foun- Miller states. free-lanced on the West Coast for dation, a charitable corporation, several years, will handle news. Jected by Joe Chambers, the sta- most of whose funds are derived His wife, Helen Roberts, who has tion's consulting engineer. A 5 kw from contributions from the Gets CPA Permit been handling the General Mills Raytheon transmitter will be used. Springs Cotton Mills and Col. Elli- radio shows on the Coast for Knox- The WESC management has an- PERMIT to construct a $10,000 ott Springs. Springs Cotton Mills Reeves, will be copy chief. The nounced that a number of stations building has been granted B. Lor- operate seven mills in Lancaster, chief engineer will be Lewis Elias. are planning "salute" programs for ing Schmidt, Salem, Ore., by the Chester, Kershaw and Fort Mill, WESCo These stations include: Facilities Review Committee, Civ- Heading the entire organization S. C., and employ 10,000 persons. is Scott Russell, formerly president WGN Chicago; WAIM Anderson, Lancaster Broadcasting has an- ilian Production Administration. of Bibb Manufacturing Co., one of S. C.; WOLS Florence, S. C.; nounced that it is prepared to un- Mr. Schmidt's appeal from a local the South's largest textile manu- WCSC Charleston, S. C.; WBT dertake the purchase and distribu- board's denial was granted on the facturers, and former counsel for Charlotte; KRLD Dallas; WFAA- tion of a minimum of 4,000 FM re- ground that the application was the Senate Committee on Postwar KGKO Dallas; WCCO Minneapolis; ceiving sets, and it is initiating "unusually meritorious for a small Economic Policy and Planning. WTMA Charleston, KMOX St. Lou- steps to obtain that many sets. commercial project reasonably es- sential to the community and the Stockholders in Greenville Broad- is; WSM Nashville; WLW Cincin- applicant is a veteran of World casting Co., in addition to Mr. Rus- nati; WPTF Raleigh; WJR Detroit; Lemon Is Director War II who is to own and operate sell, are Fred Symmes and Sidney WSB Atlanta; WCKY Cincinnati; LUTHER LEMON, treasurer of J. the business." Mr. Schmidt in late Bruce, both prominent industrial- WHO Des Moines; WCRS Green- Walter Thompson Co., New York, November was granted a CP for a ists. Attorney for the company is wood, S. C.; WCOS Columbia, S. with the firm since 1924, has been 250 w AM station on 1490 kc in Neville Miller. C.; KDKA Pittsburgh; KFAR elected a director. Salem. Equipment for WESC was se- Fairbanks, Alaska. Page 22 • February 10, 1947 BROADCASTING. Telecasting