Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

8 RADIO DAILY Monday. March 15. 1937 F. C. C. ACTIVITIES '.Washington Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY* APPLICATIONS RECEIVED Standard Life Insurance Co., Jackson, Miss. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts night, 250 waits day, unlimited. Spartanburg Junior Chamber of Commerce, Spartanburg, S. C. CP for new station. 1420 kc. 100 watts night, 250 watts day, unlimited. Southern Broadcasting Corp., New Orleans. CP for new station. 1200 kc, 100 watts night, 250 watts days, unlimited. WCMI, Ashland, Ky. CP to install transmitter and change frequency and power to 1120 kc, 250 watts night, 1 Kw. day. Robert E. Clements, Huntington Park, Cal. CP for new station. 1160 kc, 250 watts, daytime. EXAMINER'S RECOMMENDATIONS WLLH, Lawrence, Mass. CP for satellite station. 1370 kc, 10 to 100 watts, to be denied. Sioux City Broadcasting Co., Sioux City, Iowa. CP for station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited, be granted. C. W. Corkhill, Sioux City, Iowa. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, unlimited, be denied. SET FOR HEARING Watertown Broadcasting Corp., Watertown, N. Y. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts night, 250 watts day, unlimited. APPLICATIONS GRANTED University of Alaska, College, Alaska. CP and license for special experimental station. Each even 100 kc. from 1500 to 16000 kc, 200 watts peak, 5 watts average, unlimited. WGPC, Albany, Ga. Renewal of license. 1420 kc, 100 watts, unlimited. KSEI, Pocatello, la. Renewal of License. 900 kc, 250 watts night, 500 watts day, unlimited. HEARINGS SCHEDULED Today: H. O. Davis, Mobile, Ala. CP for new station, 610 kc, 250 watts, 500 watts LS, unlimited. Waterloo Times-Tribune Pub. Co., Waterloo, la. CP for new station. 1370 kc. 100 watts, daytime. Harold Thomas, Pittsfield, Mass. CP for new station. 1310 kc, 100 watts. 250 watts LS. Unlimited. March 16: Arthur H. Croghan, Minneapolis, Minn. CP for new station. 1310 kc, 100 watts, daytime. Troy Broadcasting Co., Inc., Troy, N. Y. CP for new station. 950 kc. lKw., daytime. March 18: F. C. C. will listen to arguments in the case of five functioning, and one new, stations in the Brooklyn, N. Y. area. WVFW WARD WLTH WBBC WEVD, and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle are parties involved. Case concerns facility hook-up among the stations. A NOTABLE contribution to educational broadcasting are the programs being aired weekly over WSPR, Springfield, Mass.. by Mount Holyoke College. President Mary Woolley herself introduced the first series last Fall, and will give the concluding program of this, the second series, which is built around the coming centenary of Mount Holyoke College, to be celebrated next May. The development of teaching and knowledge during this past hundred years is being told in dramatic form each Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 by students and teachers. WBRY, New Haven, started a new commercial Saturday, a twice weekly street interview sponsored by Bouve Motors (Ford), with William Blatchley and Jack Henry conducting. Henry also coriducts another new WBRY commercial, the 5-minute UP spot at 7: 15 p.m. daily, Monday to Friday, for Xervac's, electric hairrestorer. "Honor the Law", a new WICC (New Haven) commercial program, sponsored by Acme Furniture Co., began Sunday, 12:15-12:30 p.m. The program consists of transcriptions of case histories taken from police department files in various cities. Chief Philip T. Smith of the New Haven Police Department is the first guest speaker. "Oklahoma City On Parade", new one-hour program recently inaugurated over KFXR, Oklahoma City, is drawing good fan mail, according to M. V. Watson, of the Arrow Advertising Agency, in charge of the broadcasts. The program is sponsored and presented as if a real parade were marching down the streets of the city, with the announcers acting as reviewers. The three times weekly schedule will be maintained for six weeks. KRMC, Jamestown, N. D., Makes Its Debut on Air (Continued from Page 1) ate with a power of 250 watts. A. J. Breitbach, member of the firm of Roberts-McNab, supervised the filing of applications and construction permits for the station. Frank M. Devaney, who will handle the duties of manager, was formerly with the radio station in Minot and for the past several months has been connected with WMIN, St. Paul. He has also had experience on a number of stations in the south, along announcing, production and commercial lines. Serving as chief engineer will be Carlton Gray, well known in technical circles throughout the Dakotas and Minnesota, having been employed on a number of broadcasting stations in the midwest including WDAY at Fargo and KFYR at Bismarck. Gray directed the installation of the Western Electric transmitter on the southwestern edge of the city and also supervised the designing and layout of the studios in the Gladstone Hotel. The program manager will be Victor V. Bell, who has come to Jamestown from KLPM at Minot. where he served in a similar capacity. Bell's duties will lie in announc I ing, arranging programs and writing continuity. He has had considerable experience in dramatics and playwriting, having been employed as recreational supervisor for the WPA in Williams county. In charge of advertising will be Jack Carter of Enderlin. Carter has several years of selling experience to his credit, much of which was devoted to commercial broadcasting. Others on the staff will be Evelyn Wennerstrom of Bismarck, in charge of women's activities; Ray Bailey of Long Prairie, Minn., as combination operator-announcer, and Doris Bogen, bookkeeper. Following frequency tests, which the station broadcast this week, reception reports were received from as far away points as Washington, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Mississippi, Virginia, New York and Vermont as well as from several outlying communities in Canada. The first test program brought a total of 427 telephone calls, many of them from distant points. Entertainment facilities for the station will be supplied by the NBC transcription. In addition the program department will present news broadcasts six times daily, quarter hourly weather reports, a daily women's program, grain and stock markets as well as sporting events. There will also be a generous use of local talent. MIKE RILEY, "Music Goes 'Round and 'Round" co-author, has penned a new ditty titled "Spendin' All My Time with the Blues," in collaboration with Cahn and Chaplin, lyricists. ' Don Bestor takes two NBC airings a week, one on Sundays over the Red at 12 midnight; the other on Thursdays at 11 p.m. over the Blue. Lady maestro Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears to have a week's run at the Palace in Cleveland, effective March 26. W. C. Handy, composer of the perennially popular "St. Louis Blues," will play a chorus of it on the Edgar Hayes and Ork Variety recording. Jerr Blaine, NBC Ork leader and Musical Director of the Park Central Hotel, because his Wednesday night "Music Makers Festival" has clicked hard, will continue those soirees as a regular weekly Cocoanut Grove feature. Joe Rines, baton-holder and M.C. of the Dress Rehearsal Program broadcast a musical clinic Sunday over the NBC-Blue Network, 11:30 a.m. to 12 m. "The Gauchos," a new program featuring a rhumba orchestra and Bert Djerkiss, tenor, premiered yesterday at 3:00 p.m. over MRN of the Michigan Radio Network. A typically Latin program with "Siboney," "Orchids in the Moonlight" and "Serenade in the Night" sung by Djerkiss and "Las Altenitas" and "La Bomba" played by the orchestra was presented. Jack Delmar, currently making merry at the La Casa Ballroom, was the first pick-up of KYW, Philly, now back in the field for dance remotes. Harry Rogers, KYA, San Francisco, program director, has arranged for the appearance over the California Radio System and KYA of the musical group, "Las Tapatias Trio," hailed as a new and sensational radio find. They made their California ether debut on the CRS-KYA broadcast Thursday. Ed Farley ("Music Goes 'Round and 'Round") of the Club Evergreen has been added to WNEW's "Dance Parade." Phil Baker's 4th Yr. Phil Baker celebrates his fourth year on the air March 21. Program is sponsored by Gulf Oil Co. and is heard 7:30-8 p.m. Sundays. Beetle and Bottle will also celebrate their fourth anniversary at the same time. Young & Rubicam has the account. WWRL Civic Scries Queens, "New York's borough of homes," which has more civic organizations than any other community of its size — more than 1,000,000 residents — is served by WWRL of Woodside, Queens, with a weekly broadcast series made to order for the community. The series, entitled, "Community Builders," brings to the microphone each week one or two civic officials, who describe the functions, achievements and purposes of their organizations. More than 400 civic groups, representing about 200,000 Queens' families, are expected to take part in the series.