New Britain herald., 1927-01-08
WGY Announces Plans

WGY Announces Plans
 With the new year, WGY, Sche- nectady. has become associated
 with the National Broadcasting lgram features of the so-called "red
 network" Many of these features
 are we'll known to radio listeners
 from other stations and they will
 TOW be available from the 50 kilo- watt transmitter of the Schnectady lstation.
 Among the programs to be
 handled by WGY from the New York source will be the Atwater-
 Kent hour. Sunday evenings. Fea-
 ture hour, Tuesdays; Troubadors.
 Wednesdays; Balkite hour, Satur- days.
 Other "red network" features that will be heard on WGY's wave lare Moments with Great Con- posers. Friday evenings on alter nate weeks. beginning January ': South Sea Islanders. weekly, on Friday: WEAF musical comedy hits; the WEAF Light Opera com pany; the U. s. Army band; and programs by popular New York dance orchestras.
 Feature programs, originating in the Schenectady studio, will be heard, as before, from WGY. Such groups as the WGY Players, the Georgia Minstrel Boys, the Har- mony Twins, the Rice String quar- tet, the WGY Light Opera company, Dr. Frank Sill Rogers, Elmer A. Tidmarsh and Stephen E. Boisclair, organists, will be included in WGY's offerings.
 Listeners may also depend upon finding major sporting events on WGY from time to time. 1 Programs for Dixie Carrying out the policies of ex- tension of it's facilities to radio sta- 7, tions in the southern portion of the l United States. the National Broad casting company has announced 1 that beginning tomorrow the At water Kent hour will be broadcast every week by WSB, Atlanta, Ga, and WHAS, Louisville. Ky, from 9:15 to 10:15 p. m.. eastern stan- dard time, WSM, Nashville, Tenn. the remainder of the three stations below the Mason-Dixon line which make up the newly added southern division of the National Broadcast ing company's networks, will also transmit this program. provided the stations new transmitter, now in the final stages of construction, can be finished in time for the event. Recovers From Pneumonia
 Ford Rush. of the famous team 1 of Ford and Glenn. is up and about l again after serious attack of pneumonia. He and Glenn now are at Cincinnati where they are ap- bearing regularly at WLW Cincin- natl, with their Lullaby Time" and other features.
 Joins WPCH Staff
 After two years notable service with WMCA, New York. Ted Nel- son, well known to denizens of radio and listeners alike, has join ed the staff of WPCH as associate managing director to George F. George, managing director.
 Mir. Nelson was a pioneer in the field of commercial broadcasting and has the honor of securing ono of the first commercial programs to be broadcast. He is a graduate of Columbia university and upon se- curing his B. A. entered the study of medicine which he soon aban- doned for the more adventurous career of newspaper man.
 New Theatrical Feature
 A new Monday night feature at WAAM, Newark, will be talks on outstanding productions and per sonalities of the New York stage. These talks will be given by a wom an. Mitzi Kolisch, formerly assist ant editor of Theater magazine anu music editor of a Boston paper. Miss kolisch is one of the young est women reviewers in New York, and will bring freshness and or iginality of viewpoint to her work in radio. Each week she will seq all the more important new plays in New York, interview the star Of the play if possible, and will give her estimate of the play as well as amusing anecdotes of backstage. The radio reviews of the plays will help to give listeners an idea Of which of the New York productions arc worth seeing and why. In addi- ton the talks will convey some of the color and glamor of Broadway dressing rooms. rehearsal halls and producers offices.
 Theater- lovers should tune in on WAAM for this feature at 7:4o every Monday night.
 "Brokenshire's Buddies"
 Norman Brokenshire will in- augurate new and interesting series of radio features when he makes his debut on WPCH, New 1 York, Friday night, January 14, at o:S0 o'clock with "Brokcnshire's a talented aggregation of popular radio artists who will rally round the microphone for the edi- fication of listeners in a diverting program of comedy melody and Laugh and Grow Fit will be the aim of the program pre- sented this week and for reasons of his own Norman has kept the array i