Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 9 RADIO DAILY Wednesday. October 19, 1949 Vol. 49, No. 12 Wed., Oct. 19, 1949 1 0 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher FRANK BURKE : : : : : Editor MARVIN KIRSCH : Business Manager Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, (18), N. Y., by Radio Daily Corp., J. W. Alicoate, President. and Publisher; Donald M Mersereau, Treasurer and General Manager; Marvin Kirsch. Vice-President; Chester B. Bahn, Vice-President; Charles A. AlicoL'te, Secretary. Terms (Postage free) United States (other than California) $10.00 one year; California, $15.00. Foreign, $15.00. Address all communications to Radio Daily. 1501 Broadway, New York (18), N. Y. Phone Wisconsin 7-6336, 7-6337. 7-6338. Ccble address : Radaily, New York. WEST COAST OFFICES 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone: Gladstone 8436 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older, Chief 6417 Dahlonega Rd. Phone: Wisconsin 3271 CHICAGO BUREAU Hal Tate, Manager. 360 No. Michigan Ave. Phone: Randolph 6-6650 SOUTHWEST BUREAU Paul Girard, Manager Tower Petroleum Bldg., Dallas, Texas Phone: Riverside 3518-9 Entered as second class matter, April 5, 1937, at the postomce at New York, N. Y., Mnder the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL _ (October 18) — NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg ABC 85/8 73/4 85/8 + % Admiral Corp. . . . 28% 28% 28% + % Am. Tel. & Tel. . 144 1435/8 144 + % CBS A 23'/4 23 23% + % CBS B 23 227/8 23 + Va Philco 31'/4 305/8 31'/4 + % RCA Common 13V4 12V2 131/4 + 5/8 Stewart-Warner l?3/4 12% 12% + % Westinghouse 28% 28 28% + % Westinghouse pfd. 991/4 99 99 Vi Zenith Radio 295/g 28% 295/g + % NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. . 13% 123/4 13% + % Nat. Union Radio 2% 25/8 2% + '8 OVER THE COUNTER DuMont Lab 14 15 Stromberg-Carlson 121/2 13 3A WJR (Detroit) 7 7 % Henry Field Dies At 77; Was Pioneer Broadcaster 'Continued from Page 1) Co. in 1899, and from it built a $3,000,000 annual business. In 1932 he won the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator from Iowa, but was defeated in a Democratic landslide that swept the state. He leaves his wife, Bertha, 11 children, a brother 'and five sisters. * COmiNG AND GOING * ROBERT E. KINTNER, executive vice-president of ABC, and ERNEST LEE JAHNCKE, vice-president of the web in charge of stations, left last night for Pinehurst, where they'll hold meetings with web affiliates from the Carolinas and Virginia. WILLIAM A. SCHUDT, director of station relations for CBS, has left on a short business trip to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. PHIL ALAMPI, farm news editor of WJZ, will address the Associated Women of New Jersey of the New Jersey Farm Bureau at its annual Fall meeting in the Farmhouse at Trenton on October 27. BERT ANDREWS, American network commentator and chief of the Washington Bureau of the New York Herald-Tribune, is in San Francisco attending the Pacific Coast meeting of the Democratic Party. His broadcast this Saturday will originate at KGO, American network affiliate. GILMOR E N. NUNN, president of WLAP, Lexington, and director of the Inter-American Association of Broadcasters, is back in Kentucky after having attended the meeting of the AIR board. ELMER DAVIS, American network commentator, arrived in New York yesterday. He will remain here for three days, during which time he will meet with agency officials. His newscasts will emanate from Radio City. JACK PACEY, trade news editor for ABC, returned yesterday from a 10-day public-relations tour through 12 major market areas of the East. RICHARD DORSO and BEN BENJAMIN, of Century Artists, Ltd., have arrived from Hollywood to discuss with television executives the sale of a new mystery film series, "Out of the Shadows." WILLIAM PURCELL, chief engineer of WGY, Schenectady, N. Y., is in town conferring with O. B. Hanson, NBC vice-president in charge of engineering, and George McElreath, director of engineering operations for the network. VERNON J. DUKE, staff engineer at NBC, today is in Camden attending the meeting of the RCA Victor-NBC liaison committee. BILL POLGLASE and CHIP CHIPOLLA are back in town after having broadcast last Saturday's game between Fordham and Scranton over WFUV-FM. EVELYN KNIGHT, vocalist starring on "Club 15" over CBS, has returned to Hollywood following a trip to Washington, D. C, where she entertaianed at the national convention of the Chain Store Grocers Assn. SID ASCHER and GEORGE SCHREIER, publicists, are back in town following a short business trip to Chicago. CHET LAUCK, the Lum of "Lum V Abner" on CBS, is back in Hollywood following a visit to Mena, Ark. Program will return to the air Nov. 2. ABC Covering Forum ABC will air three speeches at the annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems, to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria next Monday and Tuesday. The keynote address by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower will be broadcast on Oct. 24 at 8:30 p.m., an address by Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey will be recorded for broadcast at 11:45 p.m., and a talk by Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge will be aired Oct. 25, at 11:45 p.m. 1 COLUMBIA TRANSCRIPTIONS TO COLUMBIA TRANSCRIPTIONS, N. Y. 10/5/49 WLW, CINCINNATI — " ... A DISTINCT TECHNICAL ADVANCE ..." KWTO, SPRINGFIELD — • ALL COMMENTS FROM THE ENGINEERS... ARE OF A COMMENDATORY NATURE. • CJOR, VANCOUVER — " QUALITY OF THE TRANSCRIPTIONS IS EXCELLENT. BANDING ... OF IMMENSE VALUE. * WHLN, HARLAN — • EASILY HANDLED AND HAVE EXCELLENT QUALITY WITH A MINIMUM OF SURFACE NOISE. ■ for details phone, wir» or writes . 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