Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

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4 RADIO DAILY Wednesday, March 17. 1937 F. C. C. ACTIVITIES EXAMINER'S RECOMMENDATIONS Isadore Goldwosser, Anniston, Ala. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, daytime, be granted. Bay County Publishers, Inc., Panama City, Fla. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, unlimited, be denied. State Capitol Broadcasting Association, Austin, Tex. CP ior new station. 1120 kc, 100 watts, specilied, be denied. Lincoln Memorial University, Middlesboro, Ky. CP tor new station. 1210 kc, 100 watts night, 2S0 watts LS, unlimited, be granted. Harold M. Finlay & Eloise Finlay, La Grande, Ore. CP ior new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts night, 250 watts LS, unlimited, be granted. HEARINGS SCHEDULED Today: KRLH, Midland. Tex. Mod. of License. 1210 kc, 100 watts, daytime. March 31: Wm. W. Ottaway, Port Huron, Mich. CP for new station. 1370 kc, 250 watts, unlimited. Frazier Reams. Mansfield, O. CP for new station. 1370 kc, 100 watts, daytime. April 9: Hebrew Evangelization Society, Inc., Los Angeles. CP for new station. 570 kc, 1 Kw., unlimited. Twin City Broadcasting Corp.. Longview. Wash. CP for new station. 780 kc, 250 watts, daytime. Edgar L. Bill. Peoria, 111. CP for new station. 1040 kc. 250 watts, daytime. WHN as N. Y. Outlet For WLW in Hookup Curbs Are Proposed On Chain Expansion THE AVE MARIA RADIO LEAGUE broadcasts of the dramatized lives of Saints heard on WMCA each Sunday are now being produced in Italian. The Italian players broadcast from the League home at Graymoore, N. Y., each Friday afternoon, the program being piped by WMCA to WOV in New York for airing. With Sportcaster Ray Schmidt at the mike and Chief Engineer Jimmy Burke at the controls, KWK, St. Louis, will open the 1937 season of baseball broadcasts March 22 from Daytona Beach, Fla., where the St. Louis Cardinals are training.. After covering the Florida situation , Schmidt and Burke will go to the St. Louis Browns' camp in San Antonio. Hyde Park Brewery is sponsoring the broadcasts. "Chandu the Magician" is back on KYA, San Francisco, as a feature of the Uncle Harry KYA Matinee. George Tolin, singer, is featured in a six-a-week series over KYA, San Francisco, sponsored by the O'Connor-Moffat store. A new Sunday afternoon religious program, 4-4:30 p.m., has been inaugurated by WBAL, Baltimore. Speaker is Rev. T. Roland Philips, prominent Bible teacher and dean of the Baltimore School of the Bible and instructor in Bible analysis. Hecht's Reliable Stores, Baltimore, have started a new advertising program featuring a Polish orchestra over WCBM, 8:15-8:45 Thursday nights. "The Family Man," the program written and broadcast by WTMV's program director, Woody Klose, has lately achieved some sort of audience reaction record at the East St. Louis station. Portraying himself as a Doctor with three motherless child Radio sets in use in Europe total approximately 30.000.000, or less than 8 per cent of the population of 400.000,000 in the countries involved. (Continued from Page 1) arrangement with WLW. Transamerican Broadcasting & Television Corp., will act as sales representative for the hookup. Meeting held late yesterday afternoon at WHN offices was attended by John L. Clark, president of Transamerican; William S. Hedges; Herbert Pettey, manager of WHN, and Louis K. Sidney, managing director. Arrangement also allows WLW to more readily utilize New York talent. WSM, Nashville, Signs VanCronkhite Service (Continued from Page 1) from Chicago to negotiate the contract with Edwin Craig and Harry Stone of WSM. News counsellor firm started service this week, setting up WSM news department in cooperation with Jack Harris, news editor. Understood VanCronkhite will personally supervise the WSM job, centering activities on the sale of news programs. Driscoll Play for Ethel "The Man Across the Hall", a radio drama written especially by David Driscoll for Ethel Barrymore, will be presented over the NBC-Blue network at 8:30-9 p.m. today. Driscoll has prepared many of the star's plays for broadcasting in her Famous Actors Guild series. ren, "The Family Man" has received three offers to adopt his mythical seven-year-old daughter, Mary. But — nobody wants his 15 year old son, Phillip, who is portrayed as "a little wild!" Juan Ricardo, sensational baritone, WHO's latest vocal discovery, has started a series of broadcasts each Tuesday and Thursday, 5:45-6 p.m., accompanied by Charles Pray at the piano and Don Hovey with his singing violin. Cownie Tanning Co. is sponsor. WHO musical programs are produced under personal direction of Harold Fair. (Continued from Page 1) ica. We certainly need a full-fledged investigation which will be fact-finding and which will determine what means we are going to use to protect radio from monopolistic conditions." He stated that he did not favor going to the limit advocated by Senator Wheeler in banning newspaperowned stations. Senator White of Maine, keenly interested in radio in the past, also entered the picture again in connection with the proposed probe. Havana Conference Names Committees (Continued from Page 1) vising plans for cooperative arrangements between the U. S., Mexico, Canada and Cuba. Elimination of friction in regard to broadcasting frequencies involving both short wave and long channels is one of the principal subjects of the meeting. T. A. M. Craven and E. K. Jett, FCC commissioners from Washington, and Harvey Otterman of the U. S. Department of State expressed confidence in the success of the confab. Glason Hour Changed Billy Glason's Fun Fest, heard Sundays over WMCA, will go on the air at 2 p.m. hereafter, instead of 6 p.m. Norman Twigger's News Parade sponsor has renewed his contract on WCAE, Pittsburgh. Three of the 12 live talent shows weekly sponsored by the Cownie Fur Company on KSO and KRNT, Des Moines, are being fed to WMT, and more will be added to the IBS schedule when time has been cleared. Dick Teela, tenor, is featured on 9 of the weekly quarter-hour sessions. "Grandma and Grandpa Eppy" is a new rural life script show on KSO 5 mornings a week. May-Floyd Sinex and Fred Howard are the leads, while script is 1 handled by Gene Shumate. PHIL HARRIS and his band will make merry at the Cocoanut Grove from April 13 on. Leo Reisman and Xavier Cugat w'dl alternate, musically speaking, at the Waldorf Sert Room, beginning March 27. Red Nichols and his Ork take over at the College Inn in Chi on Friday, dispossessing Roger Pryor who goes touring the theaters. Horace Heidt and his "Brigadiers" arrive at Loew's State on April 15 after a series of one-night dancehall appearances in the early part of April. Red Norvo and Mildred Bailey said good-bye to the Black Hawk in Chi in order to play a lot of college dates. Carmen Lombardo's ditty "Dreamy Eyes," follow-up on his popular "Boo Hoo," was introduced by baton-waving brother Guy on last Sunday's program. Maestro Tommy Dorsey, now in musical command at the Commodore, has an interesting new schedule with a Monday broadcast via Mutual, Tuesday and Wednesday CBS commitments, and his Friday commercial with zany Jack Pearl. Dorsey will do a special Columbia broadcast on Thursday, 4-5 p.m., to British Broadcasting, which will in turn feed the program to Italian Broadcasting. L. Wolfe Gilbert, back from the Coast today, has a new ditty, "Part of Me," to offer the world. The song has been heard on "Hollywood Hotel," and the Rubinoff and Penner programs. "Let's Get Together and Sing" is the moniker of Milton Berle's latest musical effort, written in collaboration with Louis Prima, swing ork leader. He'll present it on his Sunday night WABC program. George Hall and his orchestra, Dolly Dawn and her Dawn Patrol and Red McKenzie have signed contracts with Master Records. They will record under the Variety label. Irving Mills has signed Adrian Rollini for his Master label. Mitchell Ayres and his ork open at the Hollywood today, with Honey Sinclair vocalizing. E. P. H. James to Speak E. P. H. James, NBC sales promotion manager, will give a talk on broadcast merchandising before the Advertising and Marketing Forum of ' the Advertising Club of New York, i this Friday.