Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Monday. October 31, 1949 * COflllNG AND GOING * Vol. 49, No. 20 Monday, Oct. 31, 1949 lOCts. 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. Alicoate, 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. Ctble address: Radaily, New York. WEST COAST OFFICES Allen Kushner, Manager 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone: Gladstone S436 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 postoffice at New York, N. Y., Mnder the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL _ (October 28) — NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. ABC 8 73/4 73/4 Vl Admiral Corp. . . . 28 y4 27% 27% 1 Am. Tel. 8i Tel. . . 1447/g 144% 144% CBS A . 2438 24 24% % CBS B 24% 241/4 24% Philco 30% 297/g 29% % Philco pfd 80 Vi 80% 80% Vi RCA Common . 12?/8 123/g 12% % RCA 1st pfd 7H/8 71% 71% + % Stewart-Warner 12% 12% 12% % Westinghouse . 29% 29% 29% Westinghouse pfd. 99% 99% 99% % Zenith Radio 29 28% 28% % NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. . 14% 14 14 % Nat. Union Radio . 23/4 23/4 23/4 % OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked DuMont Lab 143/8 15% Stromberg-Carlson 13% 15 ABC Obtains Loan For TV Financing 'Continued from Page 1) picture lot, which ABC acquired late in 1948 and has remodeled extensively and converted for television use. Joins WQAM Staff Kirby Brooks, disc jockey, has joined the staff of station WQAM, Miami, and will be heard Monday through Saturday from 6:00 a.m. to 9: 00 a.m. on his program "Babbling Brooks." Brooks got his start in the entertainment business as featured vocalist and clarinet player with the bands of Dick Jurgens, Lawrence Welk, Hal Kemp, and others. He started in radio in Dayton, over WHIO. HARRY MAIZLISH, general manager of KFWB, Hollywood, left Saturday for New York. While in the East, he will attend the luncheon to be given President Truman Nov. 11 by the National Conference of Christians and Jews at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. Chairman will be John L. Sullivan, former Secretary of the Navy. WILLIAM F. BROOKS, vice-president of NBS in charge of news and international relations, is expected bock today from a three-week trip to England and France. ED GREIF, of Banner & Greif, publicists, left Saturday for Hot Springs, Ark., where he will address the 13th Annual Post Graduate VD Clinic. He plans to stay over at ttte resort for about a week. ALVIN Q EHRLICH, vice-president in charge of radio and television for the Kal, Ehrlich & Merrick advertising agency of Washington, D. C, is in New York on a short business trip. JOHN K. HILLIARD, chief engineer of Altec Lansing Corp., is in town for the meeting of the Audio Engineering Society's board of directors. ROGER SHAFFER, general manager of WSPA, Spartanburg, S. C, was welcomed Friday at the headquarters of CBS, with which the station is affiliated. F. C. SOWELL, general manager of WLAC, Nashville, Tenn., in New York late lost week on station and network business. RICHARD H. ROFFMAN, publicist and commentator on WEVD, has returned from Philadelphia and Wilmington, w+tere he discussed his plan for a students vs. experts program on local stations. JOSEPH MOSS, president of Moss Associates, advertising agency, is back from Washington following completion of conferences at several Government departments. 'Transit' Case On Today; Expect High Court Test (Continued from Page 1) time, the threat of a test case against transit radio loomed larger as a Justice Department attorney claimed that street-car radios are unconstitutional. The lawyer. Franklin S. Pollak, was speaking on his own, and had taken annual leave from his Justice Department assignment in order to help in the battle against transit radio. He said both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution are violated, but admitted that previous Supreme Court rulings are difficult to fit to the present situation. Because there is no precedent, it was freely predicted that a test case will be made. As yet, however, no one has indicated willingness to step forward and bring suit if the FTJC decides to okay transit radios here. Payment Scale Outlined Meantime the Capital Transit Company said it plans to install equipment in 1500 cars and buses if permitted. There are presently 212 installations, with the transit company receiving a minimum payment of $6 per month for each. The contract with the station calls for that minimum per bus. On the basis of gross advertising revenues, the company would receive ten per cent of the take up to $100,000, phis 20 per cent of everything between $100,000 and $200,000, plus 33 per cent of everything between $200,000 and $400,000, plus 35 per cent of everything between $400,000 and $500,000, LYMAN BRYSON, Columbia network's counselor on public affairs, on Friday was in Sweetwater, Va., where he delivered the Founders Day address at Sweetwater College. Today's he s in Hanover, N. H., to discuss "Freedom of Information" at Dartmouth. ERNEST de la OSSA, director of personnel for NBC, is expected back today from Dearborn, Mich., where he attended a meeting of the NBC personnel group. ERIC SEVAREID, Columbia network analyst, will broadcast his newscasts of today and tomorrow from WCCO, owned-and-operated station of CBS in Minneapolis. TOM HARKER, national sales manager of the Fort Industry Co., with offices in New York, spent several days lost week in Detroit, where he conferred with Dick Jones, managing director of WJBK and WJBK-TV. JACK PERLIS, radio and video publicist, is back from Washington, D. C, where he went for yesterday's premiere of Ted Granik's NBC simulcast of "The American Forum of the Air." ERNIE HARWELL, sportscaster for CBS, on Saturday was in Chapel Hill, N. C, for the game between Tennessee and the Tarheels. DON COOPER, engineer in charge of NBCin-Washington, arrived in New York late last week on business. MAURICE C. DREICER, commentator on WEVD, on Saturday conferred with station executives in Kansas City, Mo., and on Sunday met with representatives of Premier Radio Enterprises in St. Louis. HERMAN JAFFE, featured on several video programs showing reproductions of paintings and postage stamps, has returned from Miami, where he attended the convention of the Jewish War Veterans and handled public relations for the organization. Sales, Program Execs. In Realignment At WOR (Continued from Page 1) ager, has been appointed director of sales for WOR and WORTV, working under R. C. Maddux, vice-president in charge of sales. Succeeding Mayo as WOR sales manager is John P. Nell, who has been with the station since 1938, first in promotion and more recently as an account executive. Nell will supervise all WOR time sales. Donald Hamilton, who has been WOR's assistant program director, has been appointed manager of program operations for WOR and WOR-TV. In this position he will assist Julius F. Seebach, Jr., WOR vice-president in charge of program operations. Robert Brewster, formerly executive producer for WOR and WORTV, has been appointed radio programs manager for WOR. In his new capacity Brewster will concentrate on the WOR schedule, supervising existing programs and developing new ones. The new radio programs manager has been at WOR since 1948, when he joined the station after 12 years at J. Walter Thompson as radio producer and account executive. Eugene Fitts of the program department has been appointed executive producer, while Robert A. Simon will continue as program development manager. plus 45 per cent of the take between $500,000 and $600,000 and 50 percent of everything over $600,000. Bored to tears Whatever that book is, it doesn't seem to be making much of a hit with the silver fox. From the looks of that big yawn, he seems bored to tears with the whole thing. We'll try not to bore you in this ad for W-I-T-H. We'll just give you a few fast facts: W-I-T-H is the BIG BARGAIN BUY in the rich Baltimore market. Why? Because W-I-T-H delivers more regular listeners-per-dollar than any other station in town. This means that a LITTLE bit of money goes a LONG way on W-I-T-H. You can get big results from small appropriations on this station. So don't put off this important move another day — call in your Headley-Reed man and get him to tell you the whole W-I-T-H story. Baltimore 3, Maryland TOM TINSLCY, President Represented by HeadUy-Reed