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Heinl Radio New6 Service
8/7/46
TRADE NOTES
x" In its grant of a construction permit for a new televi¬ sion station in Chicago, the FCC has given the second such authori¬ zation to the American Broadcasting Company. The network acquired a permit for a Detroit television outlet through its recent purchase of the King-Trendle Broadcasting Corporation of that city. The out¬ let is to operate on channel 7, 174-180 megacycles. Visual power is 30 kilowatts, aural 15 KW with an antenna height of 613 feet. The grant is contingent upon approval of the Civil Aeronautics Authority,.
“ASCAP ' s Eastern Division Manager, Mr. I. T. Cohen, of Atlanta, Georgia, was recently appointed Lieutenant Colonel on Governor Ellis Amall’s staff.
Edward Tomlinson, NBC Advisor on Inter*American Affairs, is off on another of his regular trips south of the border to invest¬ igate late developments in the rapidly changing South American political scene. Mr. Tomlinson will broadcast his weekly political commentary, ’’The American World” from Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Panama through September 14th on Saturdays, 5:30 PM, EDT.
Starting August 1st, the American Broadcasting Company has added two daily broadcasts from the Paris Peace Conference in addition to the "Headline Edition” and "News of Tomorrow” programs which currently feature broadcasts from Luxembourg Palace each night.
The additional broadcasts from Paris will be heard daily over ABC at 11:35 A. M. , EDT and again at 1:10 P.M. , EDT.
Walkie-talkies are helping the border patrol nab aliens trying to slip into the United States. The two-way radio sets are being used by some border patrol cars and patrolmen on foot to com¬ municate with planes which spot the aliens, a Justice Department official told a reporter last week.
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'Station WTRY, Troy, N.Y. , will join the Columbia Broad¬ casting System as of January 1, 1947, becoming the network’s exclus¬ ive outlet in the .41 bany-TroySchenectady area. WTRY, with its transmitter at Colonie, N.Y. , operates on 1,000 watts, 980 kc. , day and night.
At a recent stockholders’ meeting in Chicago of the Zenith Radio Corporation, the following Directors were re-elected to serve for the coming year: E. F. McDonald, Jr. , Irvirg R. Allen, Karl E. Hassel, Hugh Robertson, Ralph Hubbart, Frank A. Miller and Irving Herriott
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