Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

Thursday. March 25. 1937 RADIO DAILY; s STATIONS Or AMERICA Highlights in the Development of Outstanding U. S. Radio Stations: No. 14 of a Series uKKV-cincinmm, ohio 1490 K.C.— 10,000 Watts L. B. UJILSOn GEORGE H. fllOORE Vice-Pres. & Gen. mgr. Comm.mgr. WCKY, second station in power in the Cincinnati area, is owned and operated by L. B. Wilson, Inc., which established the station in 1929. Its recently-granted 100 per cent power increase will add, it is estimated, 352,000 potential listeners within the 1/2 millivolt line and give to WCKY 1,800,000 potential listeners within that line, a 40 per cent increase in signal strength. Another innovation to the station, the latest high fidelity, specially-built RCA transmitter, is now being installed. A 350-foot BlawKnox vertical radiator antenna was completed just one year ago. Since first going on the air, WCKY has been affiliated with NBC, and it now carries 87 per cent of its programs from that network. WCKY receives the full news services of International News Service and UP. It also airs the press-radio reports of NBC. The station operates on an eighteen hour schedule daily. Although founded by L. B. Wilson, banker, manufacturer and theater chain operator, WCKY did not come under Wilson's active management until November 1931. At that time Wilson stepped in and immediately instituted drastic changes in the entertainment and business policies then employed at the station. It took just one year to show how sound his ideas were. Now, five years later, WCKY is adjudged one of the leading broadcast stations in America. WCKY's NBC line-up of pick-ups includes some of the largest advertisers on the air General Motors, Campana, Packard Motors, Lady Esther cosmetics, American Tobacco, Miles Laboratories, Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp., Procter and Gamble and Studebaker motors are only a few of the many finding a big market in the Cincinnati area through this station. In the past it has originated the following shows to a vast NBC audience; Happy Days In Dixie; Southern Symphonies; Musical Matinee. WCKY's staff is composed of George H. Moore, commercial manager, Lee Goldsmith, studio manager and chief announcer, Chas. Topmiller, chief engineer, Jeanette Miller, network traffic manager and Elmer Dressen, head of news, continuity and press. O CCH EST CAS /MUSIC WITH THE ft WCMCN ft By ADELE ALLERHAND JN Japan, according to Russ Morgan. ether programs carry telephone numbers of girls featured in broadcasts .... idea being to have fans telephone their bouquets. Just what A. T. & T. would do. if American networks followed suit, staggers the imagination .... Helen King of Certified Contests (she's the graphologist, not a King sister) abdicating. .. .she'll open offices sans partner. .. .Dahlias have been named for Margaret Speaks of "Voice of Firestone" and Don Wilson, Jack Benny's announcer. .. .Carol Weyman goes technical with the announcement that the air is acquiring more sopranos on account of engineering refinements now make registry more acceptable .... And Mildred Windell. who arpeggios with the Rudolf Friml Ork, contributes the idea that perfume irritates vocal chords, and temperament unhinges nervous systems of radio larks. T T Lucille Linwood of the "Joymakers" and Chick Adams, Abe Lyman arranger, seeing things through a rosy haze.... When Meri Bell hit a high note and cracked in rehearsal t'other day, Ray Sinatra's riposte was, "In behalf of the boys and myself, thanks for getting that out of your system" ... .The miniature Trojan Helen on Sunday's "Big Brother" program is W-year-old June Joyce, who's been screen tested ... .Lucille Singleton, femme major domo of CBS auditions, played hostess to Business and Professional Women's Clubs t'other a.m. and let the gals listen in on the auditions .... Kay Parsons, "Girl O' Yesterday," with three agencies hot on the scent, auditioned yesterday ... .CBS Publicity's Rosellen Callahan won extemporaneous speechmaking crown yesterday when called on at the Rainbow Room Fashion Academy function for spontaneous remarks ... .John Fitzgerald of Special Events Publicity and flier Dorothy Kilgallen were fellow-guests. T T Kathryn Cravens takes to the air again, this time to fly Chi-ward to see her Pontiac sponsors .... Ann Harding. CBS Publicity lass, temporarily worsted by bronchitis .... Another pro-tem casualty is Louise Fitch of "Hymns of All Churches" . . Claudia Morgan, of the Morgan clan, to be one of two special treats on March 29 broadcast of "Kitchen Cavalcade". . . .The other will be a culinary dainty in the inimitable Crosby Gaige manner. . CARELESSLY", ditty from the pen of Nick "Old Sailor" Kenny, has become the property of Irving Berlin, Inc., effective yesterday. Louis Armstrong's Philadelphia debut of the season will be at the Nixon-Grand Theater, the week of March 26. The Benny Goodman musical contingent go in for higher education as the favored band of the U. of P. when they stage their Ivy Ball. Jeno Bartal, WHN maestro, who waves his melody-making baton at the Piccadilly Hotel, has just been appointed musical director of that hostelry. Michael Mell and ork take over in Julie Wintz' place on "Top Hat", WNEW's dance parade. Vince Calendo, who's been vocalizing with the Vincent Travers outfit at the French Casino, now sings in conjunction with the organ, at the Paramount. Phil Spitalny's all-girl band moves over to the NBC-WEAF network and KSD, Monday, April 26. Chick Adams, arranger for maestro Abe Lyman, has devised a musicianproof method to aid lyricists who can't read notes. He calls it the Melo-Writer. Monarch Studios will merchandise it. Sally Singer introduced the new Cotton Club number, "Where Is The Sun", originally sung by Ethel Waters, on the Kreuger Beer Program, Monday night over WABC. John Redmond and Lee David are co-authors; and Mills Music, Inc., the publishers. Ted Brown and the KONO Band of San Antonio have just completed a studio recording. Jay Whidden and his London Orchestra are purveying music to dancing feet at the St. Anthony Rainbow Terrace. Spot has a WOAI wire. The three Downey Sisters are featured femme vocalists. Don Bartel's newly assembled band which is aired Sunday nights over WTAR, Norfolk, includes many of Norfolk's outstanding musicians, with Bartel himself and Henry Cowles Whitehead, director of the Norfolk Symphony Orchestra, in the van. WBNX, Bronx foreign language station, features Florence Leffert, oncert soprano and her "Consolidated String Ensemble". GWEJT-INe PAUL ALTHOUSE, JULIUS HUEHN and EMANUEL LIST, on N. Y. Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra's "Parsifal," March 28 (CBS, 8 p.m.) JEAN ELLINGTON, on Al Pearce's program, March 29 (CBS, 9 p.m.) CAPT. TIM HEALY, on "Magazine of the Air", March 31 (CBS). TED LEWIS and MARJORIE MOFFETT, on Kate Smith's Bandwagon, April (CBS, 8 p.m.) AL DUFFY, on Saturday Night Swing Club, April 3 (CBS). RICHARD BONNELLI, replacing Richard Crooks, who is ill, on Ford program, March 28 (CBS, 9 p.m.) STUART ERWIN, TOSCHA SEIDEL, DALE CARNEGIE, EDDIE DOWLING and RAY DOOLEY, on Joe Cook's Shell Show, March 27 (NBC-Red, 9:30 p.m.) JANE FROMAN, on Chu Chu Martinez program, March 28 (NBC-Blue, 3:45 p.m.) JACKIE HELLER, booked by Herman Bernie for the Ed Wynn Show, April 17 (NBC-Blue, 8 p.m.) ROBERT RISKIN replaces Gloria Swanson as guest star on Radie Harris' WHN Movie Club tomorrow night, 8 p.m. Father Coughlin Ends Mutual Series April 18 (.Continued from Page 1) program in New York. Series began on Jan. 24 on a 52-week contract, cancellable at the end of the initial 13 weeks. Today Father Coughlin will be heard in a Good Friday radio service over Mutual network from 4:30-5 p.m. Program is being put on as a sustainer, will be keyed from Royal Oak, Mich. General Television Testing Cathode Ray (Continued from Page 1) cathode ray television. Hollis S. Baird is chief engineer of the Institute, which has Television Station W1XG. ONE MINUTE INTERVIEW WALTER WINCHELL "My job is really much similar to that of an editor of a small country weekly. In those little papers the most popular feature is the personals column. Every country editor knows that names makes news, and that people are more interested in items about themselves and their neighbors than anything."