Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

Tuesday, February 9. 1937 RADIO DAILY 25 FOREIGN MANUFACTURERS of recordings in Berne, Switzerland, won their fight against broadcasting stations when the Federal Supreme Court handed down a judgment compelling the stations to first obtain authorization from the recording firms before airing any of their records. A STRATOSPHERIC SPINDLE which will attain an altitude of 15,000 to 20,000 meters is under construction in Berlin. The spindle with two transmitters will be directed by radio; one transmitter, placed inside the spindle, will automatically emit waves showing the altitude of the engine, while the other will direct the landing point of the spindle. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has purchased several parcels of land in Paris for the erection of a modern broadcasting station to cost $1,000,000. The station will be called Le Maison de la Radio. THE MAYOR OF MARSEILLES has installed a pickup in the municipal building in order that appropriate music may be turned on while civil marriage ceremonies are being performed. DENMARK'S NEW BROADCASTING station at Groenland brings the total for the country up to 42, all built since 1924. Twenty-one of the stations have several receivers, the others but one. A RADIO-TELEVISION station is to be built on the top of Brocken Mountain in Germany. Brocken is 1,142 meters high. ITALIAN RADIO INDUSTRY absorbed 12,000 workers during the past year; 430 of these were engineers. Three-quarters of the workers were employed in making receiver sets. Amount spent on radio in 1936 was 180,000,000 lire, an increase of 30,000,000 lire from the preceding year, and of 80,000,000 lire above the 1934 expenditure. The government also spent 100,000,000 lire during 1936 on broadcasting stations for the army. A SPRING FAIR of radio and television will be held at Leipzig from Feb. 28 to March 8 in conjunction with the trade fair. NEW SHORT WAVE broadcasting station is being erected at Podebrady, Czecho-slovakia, near Prague. While intended primarily to broadcast matter to Czechs living in foreign lands, programs in English, French and German wil also be broadcast from it. A RADIO-TELEVISION exposition will be held in Moscow from June 1 to June 10th. BELGRADE IS TO HAVE a new radio station. It will have a power of 100 kilowatts and a transmitter of 20 kilowatts. Coming and Going PHIL BAKER to Miami. Program will originate from there following two weeks. MORRIS HASTINGS, managing editor of Microphone, in New York from Boston. GEORGE d'UTTASSY, business manager of Radio Guide, sailed aboard the Berengaria for London. Will make survey of English radio publications. VIRGINIA VERRILL leaves for Lakewood Sunday. VIRGINIA CLARK, "Helen Trent" on the air, to St. Louis. ETON BOYS leave for Troy. N. Y., Friday to do vaude at the RKO Proctor. From there to Schenectady, N. Y.; more vaude next Thursday . CECIL LEWIS, English author and vice prexy of British Broadcasting Corp., arrived Friday on the Rex and flew to the coast Sunday. MORT HARRIS WHN production dept. head, returned to the job yesterday after a two-week vacation in Nassau. MARY EASTMAN, soloist on the Pet Milk program, left yesterday to spend week in Florida. On Feb. 19, she will replace Bernice Claire on the Friday night show. WILLIAM L. HOPPES, station relations manager of the World Broadcasting System, returned from a trip throughout the Middle West, having called on subscribers. BILL HEDGES, WLW vice prexy, arrived in N. Y. yesterday. This is his first visit to the city since the Mutual linking. JACK BERTELL leaves for Miami this week. ROCCO VOCCO returned to the city yesterday after a business trip in Cleveland and Chi. BERT FROHMAN leaves for Chi to open at the Chex Paree. BEN LARSON, head production man of Ruthrauff & Ryan, left yesterday for the coast to make arrangements for the forthcoming "Community Sings." ALVIN AUSTIN, head of the agency bearing that name, returns with the family from a three-week Florida stay. CHARLES SWAFFORD of Swafford & Koehl agency returns from Chi. Wednesday. FELIX GREENE, North American representative of the British Broadcasting Corp., flies to Vancouver Wednesday to appear at the opening of a new Canadian Broadcasting Corp. outlet. Will then fly to Los Angeles, returning to N. Y. office within two weeks. RAY LYON, development engineer at WOR left on a southern motor trip. Will visit several stations enroute and experiment. KATE SMITH and her manager, TED COLLINS, return to N. Y. this morning from Lake Placid. A. K. MILLS, London representative for March of Time, sailed on the Paris. PICK and PAT left for Florida after their broadcast last night. Will return to the Model Tobacco show March 1. HAROLD SAFFORD, WLS program director, left Saturday to spend three weeks in Phoenix, Arizona, where he will engage in building shows for KOY, recently taken over by WLS prexy, Burridge D. Butler. AGENCIES AUBREY, MOORE AND WALLACE AGENCY, Chicago, has set up new quarters here in Carbide and Carbon building and have organized an extensive campaign for radio billing. In addition to their Campagna program, agency plans to expand billing to include three more major accounts and expect billing to hit million and a half mark for the year to top that of 1936. MARVIN HARMS joins Chicago office of Young and Rubican as account executive. Robert H. Flaherty replaces harms at Premier-Pabst as advertising manager. Norman W. Vickery, for the past three years with Donovan-Armstrong, Philadelphia, goes to McKee, Albright & Ivey, Inc., ad agency. ADAMS CLOTHES, through Feigenbaum Agency, renewal starting Feb. 1, for indefinite period, Monday through Saturday, 6-6:10 p. m. Sports talk. WIP. BLACKMAN ADVERTISING, Inc., effective today changes its name to Compton Advertising, Inc. Richard J. Compton, Jr., remains as president of the organization. Philco Adds Plant Russell Feldman, former president of Transitone Auto Radio Corp., a Philco subsidiary, has acquired control of the Simplex Radio Corp., Sandusky, Ohio. Present plans call for wide expansion in plant and an addition of 1,000 employees when a suitable location can be found. Company will concentrate on automobile radios. Three Hurt in Flood Mutual's outlet in St. Louis reported flood casualties to three employees. James Burke, chief engineer, and Tom Dailey and Charles Stookey, announcers, were injured in an automobile accident between Cape Girardeau and Hayti, Mo., while on their way to cover flood area for the net. The three, though seriously injured, are reported doing well at St. John's Hospital. Berle's Gang Westbound Gillette's "Community Sings" cast embark for the west coast Feb. 22, the day after their show from N. Y. via CBS. Trek west caused by Milton Berle's and "Jolly Gillette's" desire to fulfill picture contracts. It is understood that Berle will pay out $1,000 weekly to the cast in expense, so that the air show can come along while he does his pix. Originally scheduled to leave N. Y. on Jan. 30, postponement was caused by RKO not being ready for Berle at that time. They will remain in Hollywood six weeks. The Other Half— how does it listen? On the farm and in the smaller cities throughout the country lives and buys a vast radio audience — nearly half * of the nation's radio owners. Ross Federal can determine the listening habits and program preferences of this audience just as quickly and accurately as iM metropolitan areas. * Not quite half. Actually, 46% of radio owners in the country live in cities of less than 25,000 population. 37% live in towns of less than 10,000 population. Ross Federal Research CORPORATION Affiliated with Ross Federal Service, Inc. Executive Offices: 6 East 45th Street, New York City Branch Offices in All Principal Cities