Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

The National Daily Newspaper of Commercial Radio and Television / 1 1 VOL. 49. NO. 9 NEW YORK, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1949 TEN CENTS SBC'S RESERVATIONS REPORTED HEAVY SAG, SEG Reiterate Co-Op Offer To 4-A The Screen Actors Guild and the Screen Extras Guild last night renewed their offer of co-operation with the Associated Actors and Artistes of America in the organization within the AAAA of television performers other than musicians. Additionally, the SAG and SEG, in their joint statement which was read at an AFRA membership meeting, denied the rumor that they would withdraw from AAAA and (Continued on Page 6) Report FM-Homes In N. Y. Ahead Of AM In 26 States Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILY Washington — There are more FMequipped homes in the metropolitan New York area than there are AMequipped homes in any one of 26 states, FMA said yesterday. Those states 'are Delaware, Nebraska, Kansas, Maryland, West Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, (Continued on Page 6) Canadian Labor Group Backs Private B'dcasters Lethbridge, Alberta — A resolution recommending that the GBC be "turned over to private enterprise" will be presented to the 29th convention of the Alberta Federation of Labor. It comes from the Medicine Hat cereal workers local and urges the Alberta federation protest to TransI Continued on Page 2) Invitation Harold E. Fellows, director, 1st District NAB, has extended an invitation to the membership of the Radio Executives Club of Boston to attend the NAB luncheon on October 31 at the Hotel Somerset. Maurice Mitchell, director of Broadcast Advertising Bureau, will be the principal speaker. Justin Miller, president of NAB, is also expected to attend. ii'n -van-tiii Shrinks Under Hammer Winning a $28,000 jackpot on a network giveaway program is not what it's touted to be, opines Mrs. Helen Cohen, 42-yeaT-old grandmother of the Bronx, New York. Mrs. Cohen who identified Harold Lloyd as "The Phantom Voice" on CBS' "Sing It Again" last June, reports that her winnings shrunk when she auctioned off the loot the past weekend. Many of the iiems sold for less than one third of the jackpot value, Mrs. Cohen said. The auction was staged to pay taxes, storage and legal fees on merchandise awards. Discs, Network Shows To Spur Refugee Help The plight of Europe's refugees and displaced persons will be dramatized in a series of transcriptions available to all local stations and in four network programs, prepared under the aegis of the Church World Service, relief agency for 23 denominational groups. Production of the discs and the (Continued on Page 3) Radio Listening Steady, Nielsen Report Shows Radio listening during the first week of September, 1949, equalled the figure recorded for the first week of September, 1948, and topped the figure for the year before, ac (Continued on Page 3) Educational Broadcasters Will Gather At Hotel Sherman, Chicago, For 13 th Confab Tower Test Case Authorized By FCC Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILY Washington — The FCC yesterday agreed to let the WOR pitch for higher transmitter towers be turned into a test case on the right of broadcasters to much higher towers. Okayed for intervention in the case were NAB, TBA, the CAA and the Air Transport Association. The case involves WOR's request for permission to increase its Carteret, N. J., tower from 410 to 638 feet. NAB and TBA insisted that the (Continued on Page 2) Waltham Will Sponsor New Quiz Show On ABC The Waltham Watch Co. has signed a 39-week contract for sponsorship of a new audience participation show, "Share The Wealth," on 21 ABC stations starting Oct. 17, (Continued on Page 2) AFM Spokesman Leaves For Geneva Conference The American Federation of Musicians disclosed yesterday that its royalty trust fund plan for balancing the economic dislocations caused (Continued on Page 2) FCC's Color Tele Hearings To Continue Thru December Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILY Washington — Industry proponents of haste in lifting the TV freeze, regardless of what happens with color, lost a round yesterday. The FCC announced that it expects to continue direct testimony on color TV during the next two weeks, with testimony three and one-half days each week, concluding Thursdays at noon. By October 27, it is hoped, all direct testimony on color will be completed, with the hearings then in suspense until the November 14 comparative demonstrations of CBS and RCA color and DuMont black and white. In the last few days of November the Commission will witness the Color Television, Inc., demonstration, in San Francisco. Not until December 5 will the cross-examination of color witnesses (Continued on Page 7l Chicago — The School Broadcast Conference, sponsored by the Radio Council of the Chicago Public Schools and Chicago radio stations will open its 13th annual national meeting next Tuesday at the Sherman Hotel. Opening session, chairmaned by Judith Waller, director of public affairs and education for central division of NBC, will bring the state superintendents of instruction for Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin to consider the question, "The (Continued on Page 3) WBT Challenges Engineers' Charges Charlotte, N. C. — A form letter and folder, mailed this week by WBT to all of its clients, charged that postcards sent to the station's sponsors at the alleged instigation of 10 discharged engineers gave "a distorted report" on the situation and that "these men acted very wrongfully" and "without justification." In response to Radio Daily's re(Continued on Page 3) Flanagan Sees Radio Use In Maine Tourist Advtg. Augusta, Me. — A prediction that the state of Maine Development Commission will be most receptive in its future use of spot radio when it adopts its advertising plans was made by T. F. Flanagan, managing (Continued on Page 2> TV-Minded Emilio Azcarraga, who operates XEW and Radio Programmes de Mexico, Mexico City, is in New York tor a looksee at television. His interest in TV is shared by Goar Mestre. president of the Inter-American Association of Broadcasters, Havana, and together they are making the rounds of video installations in New York and Washington.