Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

4 RADIO DAILY Thursday. October 27. 1949 LOS ANGELES By ALLEN KUSHNER LEONARD SHANE, ABC news and special events dept. has resigned to operate Leonard Shane Agency, specializing in radio and TV bookings and packaging. The agency also will handle all media and publicity exploitation and promotion. Before joining ABC, Shane was sales manager for an eastern manufacturing company, and prior to that was Indiana-Kentucky manager of United Press. Clair Weidenaar, ABC producer of "Breakfast in Hollywood" has been added to the contingent of the show flying to Honolulu, October 28th to originate the popular Jack McElroy airer from the Hawaiian metropolis during Aloha Week, October 24 through 31. William D. Shaw, KNX-CPN assistant sales manager, addressed the monthly meeting of the Southern California Association of Advertising Agencies at the Rodger Young Auditorium on Monday, October 24. He spoke on "How Radio Pays Off." Chet Huntley, KNX-Columbia Pacific Network reporter and news analyst, will leave October 31 for a six-week tour of Europe where he will interview world leaders, record news spots and gather material for future broadcasts. Robert Howard, NBC head of National Spot Sales, announced the following sale: Five one quarter hours weekly on KOA, Denver, to the Los Angeles Soap Co. through Raymond R. Morgan Co. Searle & Parks Acquires Whodunit Sales Rights (Continued from Page 1) territory except the 11 western states and British Columbia. The show, now aired on the Don Lee Mutual network, has been sponsored by Standard Oil Company 'of California since September, 1946 and now is beginning its fourth year under that banner. Searle and Parks are making the show available to network accounts east of the Rockies. Bennett In HPL Post Minneapolis, Minn. — Wendell Campbell, general manager of WCCO, CBS outlet, has announced that Roger Bennett will be director of the Housewives' Protective League at the Twin Cities station. Bennett replaced John Trent who assumes the Housewives' Protective League directorial post at WCAU, Philadelphia. AC-DC Transcription Players Tape, Wire, Disc Recorders Sales — Rentals — Service MILLS RECORDING CO. 161 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, III. De 2-4117 11 iitff i; City Wordage. . . ! 9 • • Bill Eddy is in Washington attending the FCC's color hearings. Reports that he is going to Brownsville, Texas to do some TV work for the oil millionaires are untrue even though Bill has purchased property down there. He's still continuing his OhiCGCJO Television Associates from Michigan City, Indiana and still has the same secretary. Marge Durnel, who joined him at WBKB five years ago. . . . Congrats to Carroll H. Marts on his appointment as sales manager of Mutual's central division. Carroll succeeds Ade Hult who moved to New York Monday as the networks sales head. The new Mutual sales head in Chicago joined tha network seven years ago. . . . Melvin Miles, six-year-old child prodigy, goes to New York this week-end to assist Joe Kelly on the 'Quiz Kids" show. ft ft ft ft • • • The Radio Playshop of Northwestern University will celebrate its tenth anniversary this Sunday with a special show titled "A Murderous Marriage" and broadcast over WEND. Walter Kerr, author of "Touch and Go," wrote the script. Don Fedderson, chairman of Northwestern's School of Speech radio department, is faculty supervisor. . . . Art Holland, head of the MalcolmHoward ad agency, planning to open a Los Angeles branch of the agency in the near future. Discussing television, he predicted that Chicago will reach the 300,000 mark before the end of the year. Latest figures released by the Electric Association show there are now 223,610 sets in the area. . . . Philco cancelling their "Multiscope" show over WBIKB. . . . Insiders feel that Sealtest is making a mistake in cancelling the "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" for a two month hiatus in the middle of winter to concentrate on summer ice-cream sales. Who's going to watch a show in summer at six in the evening, they say, no matter how good it is? Bill Tillstrom reported not too happy about going off in middle of winter after establishing six o'clock time here on NBC. ft it it ft • • • W. H. Stellner, Motorola veepee, says TV set sales for his lirm in September were highest in the company's history. They quad lupled last year's September set sales. . . . Admiral president Ross D. Siragusa toying with the idea of coming out with a plastic cabinet to house his TV set. . . . Stan Levey, WBBM's new assistant commercial manager, back from Florida where he escorted his ailing mother. . . . Les Weinrott has been appointed producer of the new College Inn show which will present a salute to itself instead of to Irving Berlin. The Sherman Hotel just couldn't get a legal okay from Berlin. . . . Producer Weinrott will use top radio and TV talent for his show including ace comic Cliff Norton. ft ft ft • • • All Chicago Class "B" stations have banned together in an unofficial boycott outlawing guest stars from local entertainment spots on their stations. Their theory is that if the theaters, night-clubs, etc. want publicity let 'em pay for it. The Class "A" stations realize the value of interviewing celebrities and are continuing to do so — and are happy to throw in a "plug" for the spot at which the star is currently appearing. . . . Louis Marget, son of the KVOX station manager, Manny Marget, is taking up radio and speech studies at Northwestern University. The elder Margets will come here from Moorhead, Minnesota on Nov. 5, to attend .N. U.'s big homecoming game. NEW BUSINESS WNBT, New York: The P. J. Ritter Company, to advertise their Chili Sauce, has signed a 37-week contract for the 11:30 a.m. station break on Sundays. The order was placed through the Clements Company. The American Tobacco Company, for Lucky Strike, has signed a 13week contract renewing the 8:30 p.m. station break on Thursdays and contracting for the 10:30 p.m. break on Sundays. N. W. Ayer is the agency. The Quaker Oats Company has signed a 13-week contract for 1minute announcements at sign-on Sundays. The order was placed through the Ewing Agency in Chicago. The Henry Heide Company, to advertise their candy, has contracted for one-minute announcements at station sign-on at 5: 15 p.m. Wednesdays. The 13-week order was placed through Kelly, Nason Inc. The local Chevrolet Dealers has signed a 13-week renewal for station breaks. The order, calling for the 8: 00 p.m. break on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and the 9:30 p.m. break on Fridays, was placed through Campbell Ewald. The Bowery Savings Bank has signed a 13-week contract for sponsorship of the 7: 45 p.m. station break on Mondays. The order was placed through the E. B. Wilson advertising agency. Lamont Corliss, for Ever-Ready Cocoa, has signed a 13-week contract for station breaks. The order, placed through Cecil & Presby, calls for the 5:30 break on Tuesdays, the 7:00 p.m. break on Fridays, and the 6:00 p.m. break on Thursdays. The Forstner Chain Corporation has signed a 13-week renewal of the 8:30 p.m. station break on Saturdays. The order was placed through A. W. Levin Co. WNBC, New York: The Premier Food Products Company signed a 13-week contract to sponsor the 9: 009: 15 a.m. portion of WNBC's Tex and Jinx McCrary program, Tuesdays and Thursdays, to advertise Sauce Arturo, and placed through the Peck Advertising Agency with William Rich representing the station. 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