[BC] KSMU McLendon History Dallas

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/30/2006 7:25:01 PM Central Standard Time,  
ChuxGarage at aol.com writes:

As I  understand it, in 1957, they got a little carried away with their AM  
carrier current operation and connected a 25 watt (or so) transmitter up  to 
a 
long wire antenna. It seems it did a good job of covering most of  Dallas.  
The 



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That was probably the Harmon Transmitter.   Did they still use  640 kHz.  How 
did they tie all the LPB's together?  When I was there  the telephone company 
controlled all the cables in the steam tunnels and the  school wold lease 
pairs.  When we were talking about leasing pairs the  phone company was going to 
hit us with $30.00 per month per building.  We  tried to talke to the building 
fplks about running our own wires but they said  no but they might consider 
us having an outside contractor do the work.   Still too much money.
 
 When we approached them about the FM and trying to reapply in 1961  they 
wanted a plan and a faculty advisor.  Barney McGrath was in charge of  the studio 
building and they used the main studio to rehearse for the ocassional  TV 
productions.  Barney wanted to have nothing to do with being an advisor  for 
radio..  No Bob Hope facility at this time no TV cameras.  The  Speach & Theatre 
department had very few broadcast courses mainly an old  radio drama course and 
a radio production course.  The rest was aimed at TV  since if was closer to 
the real theatre.  Barney didn't want to relinguish  control  of the building 
based on what the students did with the FM and AM  earlier.
 
Charl;ie Van Dyke went to SMU,  Ralph Baker, Darryl Parker,  Hal  Martin,  
Paul Holley,
 
 
 
Dave