Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

Thursday, March 18, 1937 RADIO DAILY 7 F. C. C. ACTIVITIES (Continued from Page 6) — ^— ^— — — Bay County Publishers, Inc., Panama City, Fla. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, unlimited. APPLICATIONS RECEIVED Ohio Broadcasting Co., Steubenville, O. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, daytime. Ohio Broadcasting Co., Marion, O. CP for new station. 1200 kc, 100 watts, daytime. WAVE, Louisville. CP for new relay station. 1622, 2058, 2150, 2790 kc, 50 watts. Gazette Printing Co., Janesville, Wis. CP for new relay station. 31100, 34600, 37600, 40600 kc, 2 watts. Anne Jay Levine, Palm Springs, Cal. CP for new station. 1370 kc, 100 watts night, 250 watts day, unlimited. SET FOR HEARING Press-Union Publishing Co., Atlantic City. CP for new station. 1200 kc, 100 watts night, 250 watts day, unlimited. Geo. W. Taylor Co., Inc., Williamson, W. Va. CP for new station. 1370 kc, 100 watts, daytime. R. W. Page Corp., Phenix City, Ala. CP for new station. 1240 kc, 250 watts, unlimited. WRBC, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. CP for new station. 880 kc, 1 Kw., unlimited. WTBO, Cumberland, Md. Auth. to transfer control of corp. 800 kc, 250 watts, unlimited. EXAMINER'S RECOMMENDATIONS Central States Broadcasting Co., Council Bluffs, la. CP for new station. 1500 kc, 100 watts, unlimited, be granted. Merrimac Broadcasting Co., Inc., Lawrence, Mass. CP for satellite station. 1370 kc, 10 to 100 watts, be granted conditionally. Sioux City Broadcasting Co., Sioux City, la. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, 250 wafts LS., be granted. Isadore Goldwasser, Anniston, Ala. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, daytime, be denied. Lincoln Memorial Univ., Middlesboro, Ky. CP for new station. 1210 kc, 100 watts night, 250 watts LS., be granted. Bay County Publishers, Inc., Panama City, Fla. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, unlimited, be denied. Harold Finlay and Eloise Finlay, La Grande, Ore. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts night, 250 watts LS., be granted. North Jersey Broadcasting Co., Inc., Paterson, N. J. CP for new station. 620 kc, 250 watts, daytime, be denied. The following actions were dismissed at the request of the applicants: Radio & Television Research Co., Los Angeles; KYOS, Merced, Cal.; KDB, Santa Barbara, Cal.; James D. Doss, Jr., Mobile, Ala.; Great Plains Broadcasting Co., North Platte, Neb.; Springfield Newspapers, Inc., Springfield, O. BLANCHE YURKA and Grace Tabor, associate editor of the Woman's Home Companion will be heard in a special broadcast over WMCA Monday, 2:30-2:45 p.m., on "Building Happy Childhood," under the auspices of the Child Welfare League of America, in cooperation with the Women's National Exposition of Arts and Industries. Popularity of KFOR'S Announcer's Doghouse program has found the studio show lacking the necessary seats to house it. All programs from now on will be staged in the Lincoln hotel ballroom which will seat 500 people. General Mills will sponsor broadcasts of the New Orleans Pelicans' road games in the Southern Association this summer. Road games will be aired over WDSU, New Orleans, on behalf of Wheaties. KWTO, Springfield, Mo., has booked the spring "One-Cent Sale" of United Drug Company, featuring the Rexall Magic Hour discs, for 11 a.m., April 13 to 17. Transcriptions of the Kelvinator CBS program featuring Professor Quiz are being sponsored over KWTO, Springfield, Mo., 2 p.m. Sundays, by the Ozark Motor & Supply Co., Kelvinator distributor of the Ozarks. Dick O'Heren and "The Jones Boys" open a new commercial series April for Brown Bros. Furniture Co. over WJAY, Cleveland. The "Noon Revue" on WJAY, Cleveland, now has three emcees. They are Jim Sands, Gene LaValle and Wayne West. Judy Sherrill, former emcee for the program, has been obliged to take a leave of absence. Charley Hamp, the West's best known one-man radio show, has returned to the air via the six stations of the California Radio System, including KYA, San Francisco, for a series of twice-weekly broadcasts, 9:15-9:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Hudson Bay Fur Co. is presenting City, "The Fashion Matinee," headlined by Wally Williams and his headlined by Wally Williams and his Orchestra, John Campbell and Maxine Bunnell as soloists, the Matinee Trio, and Dave Simmons as master of ceremonies. Program is entirely informal with everyone, down to the drummer in the band, having lines. "Fashion Matinee" is heard 3:15-3:30 p.m. MST, Mondays and Fridays. A cast of 22 players, a chorus of 12 monks, and a string trio will be used on the presentation of the annual Passion Play on WMCA, produced by the Radio Players of the Ave Maria Radio League. The broadcasts will be heard on WMCA and associated stations of the Inter-City Broadcasting System at 8:15 a.m. each week-day morning during Holy Week, starting Monday. Two weekly fashion broadcasts are being presented over KOIL, Omaha, at 11:15 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays by Delia Payne of the Nebraska Clothing Co., which sponsors the program. The better music program on WOR at 8-8:30 p.m. Thursdays, inadvertently identified in a review last week as the new series of the National Music League, is the regular Alfred Wallenstein program heard over this station. The League's series does not begin until Thursday, April 8. "Moments" Sold Out "Moments with Margot." WNEW participating program is now sold out. Sponsors are Lord's, Mi-Oun Cake, Fairbanks Morse, and three New Jersey furniture stores, Lifson, Gray's and Leon's. loplin Bakery Launches Daily Series on KWTO Springfield. Mo. — Junge Bakery of Joplin, Mo., has signed a contract for daily 15-minute broadcasts over KWTO here. The bakery is sponsoring daily-except-Sunday "Man on the Street" broadcasts at 1:15 p.m.. direct from the Springfield Public Square, with George Earle Wilson, program director and Karl Zomar. chief announcer, at the roving microphones. For an entire month, the Junge Bakery will concentrate its radio campaign on "Butter Cookies." Another product will then be plugged for a month, and so on. Free packages will be given all persons interviewed, and by-standers also will be handed generous free samples. On the strength of the radio campaign, a chain of 14 independent grocery stores in Springfield is also cooperating in the campaign, designed to greatly increase the sale of Joplin products in Springfield and throughout the entire four-state area, including Missouri, Arkansas. Kansas and Oklahoma. Junge salesmen are "following through" in every grocery store in the widespread area. JOHN HARRINGTON has been receiving some very complimentary reactions to his new WBBM program, "Train Time", which succeeded his "Man on the Street" interviews. New program is sponsored by Nelson Bros. Storage & Furniture Co. in cooperation with the Northwestern and Union Pacific railroads. Don Hancock, recovered from his attack of the flu, will pinch hit for Pat Flanagan on the WBBM "Sports Huddle", while Flanagan is on that Catalina Island vacation. Eddie Dean of the "Modern Cinderella" program plans to drive to his home in Posey, Tex., this summer. Truman Bradley of the "Ford Sunday Evening Hour" is going to Peoria shortly to speak at a banquet of the University Club. Coming Events March 15-22: North American Radio Conference, Havana, Cuba. March 18-20: Hotel Business Promotion Conference, French Lick Springs Hotel, French Lick, Ind. March 24: Columbia Broadcasting System stockholders' meeting, New York. March 31: Women's National Radio Committee annual awards luncheon, Hotel St. Regis, New York. April 6: Radio Corp. of America annual stockholders' meeting. April 9: Press Photographers' Ass'n of New York Eighth Annual Dance and Entertainment, Hotel Commodore, New York. April 26-28: Association of National Advertisers, semi-annual meeting, Hot Springs. April 29-May 1: 20th Anniversary Convention of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. May 2-9: National Music Week; David Sarnoff, chairman. May 3-5: Eighth annual institute for education by radio, Ohio State University, Columbus, 0. May 14-30: Syndicate Professionel des lndustr.es Radioelectriques Nth Annual Salon, Palais Neo-Parnasse, Paris. May 15-18: Second Annual Congress of Colonial Broadcasting of National Federation of Radio Mfrs. of England, Paris. May 15-31: Radio and Television Fair, International Exposition Grounds, Paris. June 1-10: Radio-television exposition. Moscow. June 14: American Federation of Musicians' annual convention, Louisville. Ky. June 20-23: Advertising Federation of America's 33rd annual convention, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. June 21-24: American Institute of Electrical Engineers' convention, Milwaukee. June 21-24: Summer Convention of the Canadian Electrical Convention, Banff, Alberta.