From the MCRFB radio news scrapbook: 1942
WWJ WORKS UP SKED OF DEFENSE SHOWS
DETROIT, Feb. 28.— Brief new programs to bring the problems of national defense home to listeners and tie in with support for the armed services are being started on WWJ. Tendency is to work the new trend out experimentally and in small bits, rather than in pretentious programs, thereby minimizing upsets to existing schedules.
Series of letters received from men in the service, sent to relatives, is being presented dally in a program by Ty Tyson, Man in the Service. Listener response appears strong on this program.
Further service tie-ups starts March 10, when Paul Williams goes on four-times a-week as Victory Reporter. Program is being scripted to cover brief human interest and oddity stories from the services, and limited to a five-minute spot at present.
Third program, Defend Detroit, goes on for 10 minutes five afternoons a week, and is worked out with local CCD officials to plug the immediate need of the day. One authority is built up for each day’s broadcasts and the entire five are brought in on Fridays for a half-hour studio show, not broadcast, but staged as a round table of the week’s progress in civilian defense. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; March 7, 1942).
From the MCRFB radio news scrapbook: 1942
Socony, General Mills Sponsor Games on WWJ
DETROIT, Feb. 28.— Harry Bannister, manager of WWJ, on Wednesday signed contracts with Socony-Vacuum Oil Company and General Mills as joint sponsors for direct broadcasts of all local Detroit Tigers baseball games, plus reconstructed broadcasts, based on direct-wire reports, of all out-of-town games. Sponsors are the same as last year, and carry on despite the auto situation, which has hit sponsors in this town hard.
New contract marks some kind of a record for Ty Tyson, who has broadcast games for WWJ for every season beginning in 1927, and will repeat for the 16th year. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; March 7, 1942).
