The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-04

N4ODS~GAASASAA4AS 0AAS4VW~VSD eSSP into the night to carry the Presi. det's words into the dawn of East" ern Europe and Asias midday. From the Rio Grande to Cape Horn the air fills with limpid accents of Spanish and Portuguese traTsla- tions. For another sixteen hours or so other foreign language versions continue to hold captive peoples close to loudspeakers; fill fighting free men with determination to carry on to victory.
 In the United States itself more
 than Q half thousand stations,
 ranging from 1OO-watt transTnit-
 ters to great 5O,000-watt plants,
 speak as one while the Chief Ex-
 ecutive faces a battery of mtcro-
 phones in the White House.
 Here is radios mightiest show of power, the finest of It's full dress performances-a broadcast neither hurried nor halting, one begun and ended with the dignified precision befitting the occasion. The earths millions intimately know radios formula and the vibrant voice; yet not more than comparative harld- full know the procedure for mar shalling a continents radio resource es for the Presidents use.
 It all begins with a few telephone calls. Stephen Early, White House secretary, tells Washington offices of broadcasting networks that the President will speak on a certain date. He estimates the length of the address. The men he talks to are liaisons between the networks and the White House. The National Broadcasting Company's spokesman is Carleton Smith, young and soft- spoken announcer for all of the Presidents radio addresses since that first Preside Chat back in the black days of 1883.
 Capital network representatives
 consult, talk with New York head
 quarters. The President does not
 request any particular time. That
 decision is left to radios men,
 who choose an hour that will cOm-
 mand the widest possible audience
 with the least disruption of regu-
 lar schedules. The time is sub-
 mitted to the White House.
 Once the President has approved, the machinery of preparation be- gins turning. Publicity departments announce the forthcoming talk. Network stations receive notifica- ton from Radio City and other New York headquarters so that time may be cleared" conflicting programs cancelled. Sponsors invariably yield claims. Engineers and production men mark the time on their work ing schedules. Shortwave depart ments book the talk for broadcast in MT. Roosevelt's own words, by transcription and in many transla- tionS.
 Tn all this there is no compulsion. No station is required to place its facilities in the gigantic radio pool. Yet every network outlet does, and hundreds of independent stations arrange to join one or another of the networks while the President is on the air. NEG extends this serv- ice without charge to any indepen- GEklk SyhtlOAt DPPAhAneb
 As days go on, word and time cues are worked out, dispatched to key switching points over the coun- try SO that, when the moment shall arrive, the regional units that. pieced together, make transconti- mental network, will suddenly, with the dipping of switches hundreds of miles apart, be transformed into one vast copper web, heading up in the White House mlcrOphones.
 On the day of the br0ameaSt the
 President wlIl have completed his
 address, FehesFsed It's delivery,
 counted the minutes he needs.
 Tlis last information is e0ms
 mMnieated t0 Washington network men, flashed tN New YNFk, Fes
 layed tO RffilaIted stations,
 Meanwhile Washington staff enc glneers test their Presidential br0a0s east equipment, the finest field ampliflers and control units they own, They stow t ip tagis, tFenss port tt to the White House, All 0f this paTRpheFnelia Is in duplicate 70 guard against any possibility 0f falls nFe, The eDgneeTs, too, are veterans Of Presidential bT0adeasting, Nbg's technical eFew ls headed by 4. D, Johnson, engineer slnsehaFge of the Networks Washington division,
 For several hours before the pFesldentis broadcast the Oval Room 6 ene Of llVely action as engineers sci nD theiF equipment, Flig mlefes nhone lines t9 she Presidents ges inlllaF bF0Ra0asslng desk alld begln q saFles ef tests, Permanent bE0aas casting lines connect she White 1falase With Washington stilale nlanlA, NDeh twin elFenitR, feF ins sianee, j0in lhe vast domestic aila shaFtWaVe network @t the WAGillflNs fan faasiAF control baAFa, sEasa which r0iht t ls Felayea en k NeS xaYk f0r distribution,
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