Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY COAST TO-COAST 8 Six New Outlets OK'd; Other Activity At FCC (Continued from Page 1) Boone, la., for the 1590 band with one kilowatt; and to Seminole Broadcasting Co., Dade City, Fla., for the 1310 band with one kilowatt. The Penn Engineering Company, Bozeman, Mont., was okayed for unlimited time operation on the 1230 band with 250 watts. Frequency shift from the 1400 to the 1250 band was okayed for WCNC, Elizabeth City, N. C, which operated with 250 watts unlimited. KSMA, Santa Maria, Calif, was granted a shift from 1450 to 1240 kc, and KFBC, Cheyenne, Wyo., was permitted to go from the 1240 band to 710, increasing its power from 250 watts to one kilowatt night, ten kilowatts limited service. W1MS Goes Unlimited WIMS, Michigan City, Ind., was okayed for a change in hours from daytime to unlimited, with daytime power staying at one kilowatt and night power of 500 watts on the 1420 band. KAYX, Waterloo, la., was okayed for a shift from the 1090 to the 1280 band, extending hours from day to unlimited, and a similar time extension was given WNAM, Neenah, Wise. WKYB, Paducah, Ky., moved from the 800 to the 570 band, but stayed on daytime only. The Commission announced that it will set a later date for its hearing on the applications of the Southern Baptist Convention for a series of low-powered FM religious broadcast stations. Date had been November 4, but on request it was agreed that a later date will be named. Complete Plan Of Contest On 'Voice Of Democracy' (Continued from Page 1) racy Awards Week and the awards luncheon, at which four high school students will receive scholarships for the best broadcast scripts on "I Speak for Democracy." The group met here with the co-chairman of the National Radio and Television Week Committee, Gordon Gray, WIP, Philadelphia, and W. B. McGill, Westinghouse Radio Stations, Philadelphia; representatives of the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce and RMA. The other sponsors and the U. S. Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, which endorses the contest, were on hand. Richards said the final step in the advance plans for the Voice of Democracy contest has now been WANTED Announcer-Executive over 30 now in N. Y. with Production or Agency experience and Coll. Ed. Here is a permanent job if willing to re-locate. Send complete resume to Box 280, RADIO DAILY, 1501 Broadway, N. Y. C. "Prof. Quiz" Returns Milwaukee, Wis. — The original "Professor Quiz" program returns to the air this fall and can be heard over W1SN every Friday night at 8:30 p.m. Grape Nut Flakes is the sponsor. New Programs For WAUD Auburn, Ala. — Two new programs were added to WAUD listing within a week. The DeLuxe Cleaners signed up for a roundup of football scores and highlights of the day's outstanding games. Ware's Jewelry Shop signed for sponsorship of the Sunday afternoon thriller, "Diary of Fate." KFWB Has Dixieland Jubilee Hollywood, Calif. — KFWB disc jockies, Frank Bull and Gene Norman, lined up an array of talent, domestic and imported, for their second annual "Dixieland Jubilee" at the Shrine Auditorium last week, featuring Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, and Bob Crosby and his Bobcats. Radio-Owned Car In Operation San Antonio, Tex.— A new $4,500 all steel special events car has been put into service by KONO and KONO-FM, owned and operated by Eugene J. Roth. Car is fully equipped to handle any time of remote job including a tape recorder to make on the spot interviews and descriptions of newsworthy happenings. WEBR Adds Staffers Buffalo, N. Y.— Cy King, general manager, announced that Preston L. Taplin has been named program director of WEBR. Taplin served in that capacity with WELM, Elmira. Other additions to the staff were Lloyd Gibson, production manager and emcee Don James. Leich Recuperating Evansville, Ind. — Clarence Leich. secretary treasurer and general manager of Curtis Radiocasting Corporation, is recuperating from an emergency operation at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Leich was stricken while he and his wife were visiting their daughter and family in Baltimore. taken, with the mailing of special transcriptions to all NAB member stations for scheduling model broadcasts at the opening of the competition. The contest will begin during National Radio and Television Week, Oct. 30-Nov. 5, when students will listen to the series of transcribed background talks on stations throughout the nation, and write their competing scripts. State winners will be sent to Washington for final judging by the panel of eminent Americans. The four co-equal, national winners will be announced about Dec, 15. Good Neighbor Series Worcester, Mass. — As winners of WTAG (and FM's) August-September "Good Neighbor" contest on its weekday "Julie 'n' Johnny" program, two Worcester women are spending an all-expense paid week in Canada. So that listeners can keep tabs on what the "Good Neighbors" are seeing and doing, WTAG has arranged to have the women transcribe their vacation impressions at a Toronto station. The discs are airmailed to "Julie 'n' Johnny" for immediate broadcast. Program Speakers Set Hartford, Conn. — The president of Trinity College, G. Keith Funston, will be the speaker on the first of a series of Trinity College programs to be given over WDRC. Funston will speak November 6th at 12:45 p.m. Haywood Joins News Staff San Antonio, Texas — Vincent Haywood has joined the staff of KTSA as newscaster and will be heard nightly at 10:00 p.m. He was formerly with WFAA, Dallas, and more recently with KABC here. Haywood has also appeared in many coast-tocoast network shows such as "Young Dr. Malone," "Life Can Be Beautiful" and "Cavalcade of America." Wednesday, October 19, 1949 Hult Succeeds Barnes As MBS Sales Y.-P. (Continued from Page 1) been associated with Mutual since the organization of the network. On graduation from college, he worked as a reporter in Moline, Iliinois, and later became a sales repiesentative of the National Lock Company in Rockford, Illinois. In 1930, he joined WGN in Chicago as an account executive, and transferred in 1934 to the Mutual network in the same capacity. In April, 1941, Hult was named sales manager of the Central Division and in March, 1945, became a vice-president of the network. Schwerin Plans Survey In Wisconsin Farm Area (Continued from Page 1) gram £or Quaker Oats Co., in cooperation with WKOW, Madison, Wis. The project will cover some 2,000 rural listeners, and is described by Schwerin as "the most comprehensive qualitative research experiment attempted outside of a large metropolitan area." The listener sessions will be held in four Wisconsin towns, Oct. 25-28, under the direction of Ralph Amnion, WKLW manager. Lee Edwards, WKLW farm bureau director, will be m.c. RADIO EXECUTIVES CLUB OF NEW YORK Luncheon Meeting to Be Held Tomorrow October 20, at 12:30 P. M. in the Hendrick Hudson Room of the Hotel Roosevelt Subject: "Television's Fifth Network" Speakers: Richard W. Hubbell, Moderator Norman Corwin Thomas Flannigan, Managing Director of Nat'l Assn. of Radio Station Representatives. Pierre Crenesse, Director of French Rroadcasting System of North America. Special Guest: Emilio Azcarraga, Mexican radio and television executive and industrialist. Admission: $3 for members, non-members $3.75. For last-minute reservations call Claud? Barrere, MU. 6-0238