Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY: Thursday. October 13, 1949 sun fRflnasco By NOEL COBBETT BILL NITFELD, KFRC news editor, radio's only representative on the Press Club's Board of Directors, now is going into his fourth term. Shirley Smith at KCBS press has been upped to the job of promotion writer. Jules Dundes, director of sales and advertising for KCB.S, is touring Chicago, New York and other Eastern cities. Kay Mulvihill is now in charge of promotional activities for KSFOKPIX. She succeeds Ellen Stern who has left for her New York home. Former Bay Area disc jockey Bill Baldwin had to desert his San Francisco home for Hollywood before he could get a job as hotel clerk at the (local) St. Francis Hotel. Of course it's in a movie; "Dead on Arrival." Bill was around this week to tell friends his good luck in catching the announcerial spot on the Edgar Bergen Show. Another KSFO disc jockey, Arch LeRoux is now cutting records under the Frisco Label. Current releases are Edna Fischer's "A Small World" and Bill Anson' "I've Got a Picture Without a Frame." Mel Venter is now emceeing "Tellotest" for 6:30 p.m., release to the Don Lee Coast Network. Show is of quiz variety. Reports from retailers, compiled by the Northern California Electrical Bureau are that there are over 12,000 TV sets in the Bay Area. Other predictions among radio-TV circles are that there will be four times that many by the end of the year. First fashion show to be televised in the Bay Area will be seen over KGO-TV when Livingstone Brothers puts on Delta Gamma Sorority's annual fashion show at the Palace Hotel. Evangeline Baker will do the fashion commentary. New TV Package Planned Hollywood — Deal is in the making between William Gargan and Ralph Bellamy for them to co-star in a new TV package, "The Brain." Gargan has readied the program which deals with case histories of people who met their death through capital punishment. Bellamy would be the narrator for the series. Gargan headquarters in New York for his radio-TV starrer, "Martin Kane, Private Eye," and Bellamy headquarters there for his starring role in "The Detective Story." AC-DC Transcription Players Tape, Wire, Disc Recorders Sales — Rentals — Service MILLS RECORDING CO. 161 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, III. De 2-4117 H indy City Wordaye. . . .' • • • Du Mont's new Chi. sales office is now located at 135 S. La Salle Street (Room 1256) with Gil Berry in charge. . . . Lawyer Jonn Moser will be passing out cigars in about three weeks. With two boys already in the Moser clan. John hopes the next oifChiCCtgO spring is a gal. . . . John's partner, Tom Compere, still stiff from his military workout at the National Guard encampment at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin where he is a high muck-a-muck. . . . ABC legal big-shots arriving in town Thursday for the National Labor Relations Board Hearings to be held at the Midland Building in the NABET-IATSE controversy. Both unions want jurisdiction over the web's engineers. U tt ft ix • • • All TV set manufacturers are allocating sets for the coming Christmas buying season. And they all admit that they have to recognize the fact that selling TV sets is about 'an 8 or i) month job. Viewers just won't do any set buying in the summer months. . . . That new rectangular TV tube which Owens-Dlinois announced last week was first reported in this column several months ago. . . . Thirty-seven set manufacturers were represented at big Television Show at the Coliseum, which ended a recordbreaking engagement at the Coliseum Sunday night. Art Holland, who promoted the deal, tells us the attendance was 155,000 — almost double last year's! The big draw this year, of course, was Eddie Cantor. it iwr it it • • • Doctor Herold C. Hunt, general superintendent of the Chi. Public Schools, will be host at the 13th annual School Broadcast Conference which will be held here at the Sherman Hotel for three days starting next Tuesday. . . . Doctor Benjamin Fine, education editor ol "The New York Times" will be the speaker at the conference's luncheon next Wednesday. . . . Dr. Hunt says he expects a record-breaking attendance with educators interested in radio coming here from all over the country. . . . George Couper, Jr., has resigned as account executive at Simmonds & Simmonds, to accept a similar post with Robert Race & Associates. . . . Big shake-up at local FM station WMOR. Ralph Wood, war veteran who was one of the guiding lights in the formation of the FM outlet, has resigned as president and is taking 45 days leave of absence to sell FM transit radio. New prexy is Bernard I. Miller, of the Bache and Co., stockbroker's firm. Man behind the throne is Restauratuer Dario L. Toffenetti, head of the restaurant chain bearing his name. He's chairman of the board. Other officers elected at the annual board meeting last week were: Jules Pewowar, "Dynamo Dave" Edelson, Herb Kraus and Dave Pivan, vice-presidents; Stephen B. Wood, secretary, and John Malasky. treasurer. In addition to chairman Toffenetti other board members elected were: Morris Alexander. M. W. Kutchins, Marsh Ray and Stephen Wood. it it it it • • • Standard Oil Company kicking off their new Wayne King TV show over a mid-west NBC hook-up in fine style. After an excellent dinner at the Merchant's and Manufacturer's Club in the Merchandise Mart, trade-press reporters viewed the opening show in the swank client's conference room at NBC. Wesley Nunn, advertising manager for McCann-Erickson, Inc., gave a short talk welcoming guests to the show as did Wayne King, Nancy Evans and several others. King is still one of the "kings" of "show-business" as his clickeroo opening TV show proved. it it it it AGENCIES McCANN-ERICKSON, INC.. has named James MacDonald, former CBS and Toni Company publicist, as manager of radio and television publicity. MacDonald was formerly director of Radio HBI, which was the New York house agency for the Toni Company of Chicago. Prior to that he worked with the Benjamin Sonnenberg public relations agency on the Toni Company and Phillip Morris Company accounts, also as a CBS publicist. BOB WAHL, WFIL-TV producerdirector and director of television for the Theater Arts Institute of Philadelphia, has been named to the radio-television department of Gray & Rogers, Philadelphia advertising agency. For a year after he was mustered out of the Army, Wahl was a public relations representative for the Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, Ohio. In 1948, he joined the staff of WFIL-TV, where during the last 15 months he has supervised-sponsored studio productions. He held the Theater Arts Institute faculty post at the same time. FRED W. AMEND CO., Danville, 111., manufacturers of "Chuckles," candy confections, and extensive radio advertisers, have engaged Leo Burnett Co., Inc., Chicago, as their advertising agency. Owen Smith is the account executive. Smith told Radio Daily that no radio or TV plans have been formulated to date, although an extensive ad campaign will definitely be utilized in the former medium. GREY ADVERTISING has been appointed by Textron, Inc., for its Nashua Mills division and its new Poses subsidiary, effective Jan. 1. HOWARD SELGER has joined the promotion staff of Petry & Co., Inc., New York. WEVD 117-119 W 46 SL HENRY GREENFIELD, Mg. Director N.Y.19