VOA Master Control room

The Voice of America's Master Control room where broadcasts in 42 languages were transmitted worldwide in the '90s [on shortwave] .

Scanned copy of the postcard sent to the listeners.

Obsession

Listening to a ventriloquist on the radio?
From Woody Allen’s Radio Days:

While uncle Abe loved the "Bill Kern Sports Show" on Radio his wife Ceil adored
a very prominent ventriloquist.
And this always used to drive Abe crazy.
Abe: “He's a ventriloquist on the radio. How do know he's not moving his lips?”
Ceil: “Who cares? Leave me alone.”

Willis Conover 1920-1996

Cross posted from my other blog. The complete scanned copy of the VOA newletter is posted here.

Willis Conover 1920-1996
You may call Willis Conver a Jazz legend, though he was just the host of the Jazz Hour program on Voice of America. I heard Conover on radio (Voice of America on shortwave) when I was probably too young to listen to Jazz. Perhaps he is the only radio show host who is as respected as the legends of the music genre itself.

The clipping is from the VOA newsletter which I recieved in '96. Click on the image to read.

Read the Conover tribute by the The Hindu jazz critic Jazzebel here.