Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

6 RADIO DAILY Thursday. October 6, 1949 Windy City Wordaye. . . / • • • ROBERT JONES, formerly ABC Station Relations Manager in Chicago, and who before that handled a similar post with ABC in New York, will be the new General Manager of KRMG in Tulsa. The station is now under construction and will go on the air some time before January 1st. John Blair and Company will handle the C'h.l.CCtCJ'O national representation. Jones, who recently resigned as manager of WIRL, Peoria, will be host to a team of Blair executives, headed by Wells H. Barnett, Jr., Sales Development Manager, who will make a complete study of the station operation and the market. . . . Tommy Bartlett, emcee of NBC's "Welcome Travelers" show, presented a farm wife with a check for $20,000 on Friday for winning the "Name the Schmoo" contest conducted by Procter & Gamble, sponsor of the Bartlett show. "fr lAf iftf • • • CAESAR PETRILLO, WBBM Musical Director, together with the station's Modernaires, has recorded four tunes for Columbia Records. Caesar was also a guest when Arthur Godfrey broadcast his morning CBS show from the WBBM studios Friday morning. During the interview with Godfrey, the WBBM musical direotor also talked with Janette Davis, featured vocalist, via a two-way hook-up between the WBBM studios and New York. Janette is & former WBBM star and was featured on many programs here a few years ago. . . . The red-haired comic revealed during his Windy City trip that he had just signed the Chordettes, new femme vocal group, who will be heard regularly on both his AM and TV shows. Because there was no budget for the new group, both Janette and his vocal group took a cut in their weekly salaries to make a spot for Chordettes. The latter group is from Waukesha, Wisconsin. . . . After taking a color photo at the Chicago Tribune studios and meeting the press at his suite in the Ambassador Hotel suite, Godfrey enplaned for Detroit where he spent the weekend with the General Motors president. He really smokes his sponsor's product — Chesterfields. # it # is • • • BEN PARK, writer-producer of the prize-winning "It's Your Life" series broadcast locally over WMAQ, tells us that he will make tape recordings of the show available to stations throughout the country at $7.50 per program. . . . Chicago disc jockey Frann Weigle has a recording coming out this week on a London label which insiders believe may revolutionize the entire recording technique. Frann did all eight voices on the record. One side is the Hoagy Carmichael tune, "Rockin' Chair," and the other is an original ditty composed by Weigle, Hal Tate, Billy Milton, and Maxine Long. Bill Putnam, president of Universal Records, deserves credit for the sensational engineering feat of blending all eight voices so that it sounds like a combination of the Mills Brothers and the Ink Spots singing the number. . . . Members of the Chicago Radio Writers Guild are cordially invited to attend the Mystery Writers of America meeting which will be held at RiccaTdo's Saturday evening. Guest of honor will be Emmett Dedmon, book editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. LOS ANGELES TELEFUNKEN Records, (Capitol Records, Inc.) teed off a new program on Metro's FM station KMGM Sunday, October 2nd. Record outfit and station are natural combination, diskeries classical sides being typical FM fare. Jeanne Gray, woman commentator of "The Woman's Voice" heard over KMPC, has received the honor of being named one of the 24 outstanding Los Angeles business women, in commemoration of National Business Women's Week. Bob Hope will make four personal appearances in Canada and the U.S. following his regular NBC program, Oct. 11. On Oct. 12 he will appear at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada, on Oct. 13, at the Ottawa Civic Auditorium, Oct. 14, at the Forum in Montreal, and Oct. 15, in Buffalo, N. Y. He will return to Hollywood for his radio show of Oct. 17. Eleven year old radio actress Anne Whitfield, who appeared on the NBC Theatre production of "Penrod" recently, celebrated her 660th network broadcast and the start of her fifth year in commercial radio with this show. Defense Documentary Planned For ABC Web (Continued from Page 1) it was announced yesterday by U. S. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson. In describing the new public interest series, Johnson said: "This will be the initial network radio series produced by the Department of Defense to give the radio audience an opportunity to learn about the latest developments and accomplishments in the realm of national security." The new series, planned for entertainment as well as for up-tothe-minute reports on American defenses, will have a diversified format. Each week, William Frye, assistant to the Secretary of Defense, will report on the latest developments in national military affairs. In addition, documentaries, some "live" and others recorded, and music of the armed forces will be presented. New Technique Planned The "documentary" spot contemplated for the program, the announcement stated, "promises to be such a new technique that the term 'documentary,' borrowed to describe it, falls short. A pure experiment in radio broadcasting, these episodes will take listeners into the world of the present and future of our armed services." Planned for early presentation in the series are conversations with parachutists, jet plane pilots and the "guinea pigs" of the services who are working and testing the untried devices to be used in the future. Takes KCBS Post Appointment of William Cullenward as manager of Press Information of KCBS, Columbia-owned station in San Francisco, was announced yesterday. Cullenward formerly was promotion manager of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, manager of the 'Frisco News Bureau of the Chicago Sun and News Bureau manager for Trans World Airlines. New ET Series Planned Arrangements have just been completed between John J. Anthony and Charles Michelson, Inc. for the production of a new 5-per-week, across the board quarter-hour transcribed series entitled "Your Problem, Please," featuring Anthony. The programs will be released for local sponsorship by the Michelson firm on October 17th. SOUTHWEST FRED NAHAS, exec veepee of KXYZ, Houston, is back from Hollywood where he completed arrangements for a flock of filmnotables to make personal appearances at the Dec. 17th Shamrock Charity Bowl. Rice Stadium will be the scene of the tilt which will match the professional champion team against an all-star team of the All-American Conference. The title, "Tomorrow's History," used for the Shell Oil across the board 6: 15 p.m. news on KXYZ, Houston, gets further use when newscaster Fred Nahas expands his 1 activities and becomes a regular columnist in the 15 Citizen Newspapers distributed to every home in Houston. Nahas takes on this additional chore to fill in his spare time while functioning as exec veepee of KXYZ, newscaster, chief barker of the Variety Club Houston Tent, and Ambassador at large for oil millionaire Glen McCarthy and the fabulous Shamrock Hotel. Dave Rubinoff, violinist who is widely known for his air appearences, is scheduled to make series of personal appearances throughout the state opening at Wichita Falls, Nov. 15; Houston, Nov. 22; Orange, Nov. 23; San Antonio, Nov. 29, and Dallas, Dec. 2. Tourists entering Mexico by private car may not take portable radios with them, according to an announcement made here by the Mexican Government Tourist Bureau. The portable radio may be declared at the border along with the auto. Any tourist who takes a radio with him will be expected to bring it back when he returns to this country. The ban on such radios heretofore in effect was intended to prevent smuggling across the border. Tourists going by train, airplane and bus will not be permitted to carry radios across the border as there is no way for customs to check them. HENRY GREENFIELD, Mg Director N.Y.I9