Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Vol. 49, No. 29 Tuesday, Nov. 15, 1949 10 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. Balm, 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 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 Girar'd, 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., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL (November 14) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. ABC 1% 73/8 71/2 — Vs Admiral Corp 29l8 29V8 2938 — % Am. Tel. & Tel. . . 146V2 146Vs 146V8 '/4 CBS A 253/8 251 8 25% + '/4 CBS B 25 Vs 25i8 2 5 Vg — % Philco 30% 293'4 293/4 — % RCA Common 12'/2 I21/4 123/4 — Vs RiCA First Pfd. . . . 733/4 7334 7334 + Vt Westinghouse 273/8 26% 27 Vi Westinghouse Pfd. 100 100 100 — V* Zenith Radio .... 283 8 28 28 V* NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. . 1434 I41/2 Ml/,. + Va Nat. Union Radio 21/2 23/8 2'/2 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Du Mont Lab. 14 15 Stromberg-Carlson 133/, 15 Whitney In New York George Whitney, Don Lee General Sales Manager, is in New York on business and is stopping at the Biltmore Hotel. Whitney will call on the Blair offices, Don Lee's eastern sales representatives, and clients in New York, Chicago and St. Louis. Whitney's tour concerns both AM and TV business. He'll return to Los Angeles around December 1. RADIO DIRECTOR'S It I GUT II \ Ml 11 years proved performance, 4A Agencies. Secretarial skills. Production, scripts, E.T.'s, traffic, spot time buying, contracts. On the other hand; college, tact, personality. Write Box 287, RADIO DAILY, 1501 Broodway, New York City. Butler To Address REC Luncheon Thurs. DENNY (Continued from Page 1) advertising of General Foods products will discuss the subject: "Early Experiences with Radio and Some of the Lessons To Be Drawn from Them." He will be introduced by Atherton Hobler, Chairman of the Board of Benton & Bowles, Inc. Another guest speaker will be Charles R. Denny, NBC executive vice-president who will speak in connection with the presentation of a Junior Achievement Award to an NBC affiliate. The annual national radio award to the best Junior Achievement radio broadcasting company in the United States will be presented to the Junior Broadcasting Company of Peoria, 111. Denny will present the award (an illuminated scroll signed by Justin Miller, president of NAB and the presidents of the four major networks) to William Allan Linsley, president of the Junior Broadcasters Company, who will be guest of honor. Linsley will be featured on broadcasts of the four major networks during his New York visit. Linsley, a 16-year-old junior at Woodruff High School, Peoria, was elected to come to New York to receive the award by fellow-members of the prize-winning company. Linsley's group broadcasts over WEEK, Peoria affiliate, a regularly scheduled series of Saturday morning programs covering teen age sports, fashions, social activities and high school chatter. Recordings of their broadcasts were entered in competition with the works of other Junior Achievement radio companies, together with financial statements and annual reports. Second place award has been made to the Big Four Broadcasting Company, sponsored by WMBD. Peoria, 111., national award winner in 1947. Honorable mention has been given to Talent Unlimited, sponsored by the New Bedford (Mass.) Gas and Edison Light Company. Peabody Award Plans Announced By Drewry (Continued from Page 1) chairman, and Dean Drewry. Four awards are to be made this year in the field of television, in addition to those in radio. Entry forms are being mailed this week to stations and networks throughout the U. S. The Peabody awards are designed "to recognize the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered each year by the broadcasting industry, and to perpetuate the memory of George Foster Peabody, benefactor and life trustee of the University of Georgia. CAB Takes Strong Issue With Dunton On Video (Continued from Page 1) statement must be compared with the fact that, so far, no application for a television license by any privately owned broadcasting station in Canada has been granted." Allard had this rebuttal for Dunton's statement that only one private operator had applied for permission to build a TV transmitter (at the time the Nov. 1 story was written): "To our definite and certain knowledge," said Allard. applications have consistently and repeatedly been made by broadcasting stations CKEY and CFRB, Toronto, CKAC and CFCF, Montreal, and on other occasions by CHML, Hamilton, Mr. Al Leary, of Toronto, and Canadian Famous Players Limited. We are also led to understand that an application was made by CKLW in Windsor." Jessel Guesting George Jessel who is in New York this week for personal appearance on November 18th at the Roxy for opening of "Oh, You Beautiful Doll." will also do Elgin Tele show and "We The People" show while here. On return trip to the west coast he will stop over in Chicago for p. a. then to Hollywood for Crosby show and two Martin and Lewis shows. COfninC and G0MG W. W. CHAPLIN, newscaster heard on NBC, this week will broadcast his "Report on America" from Phoenix, Ariz., and the following week from Albuquerque, N. M. JAMES HANRAHAN is in town from WEWS-TV, Cleveland, for conferences at the headquarters of the Columbia network. MERRILL "RED" MUELLER, London correspondent of NBC, has arrived in New York, and now is leaving for Dallas, Tex., where he will discuss International Forums at the convention of Sigma Delta Chi. G. RICHARD SWIFT, general manager of WCBS, together with JACK STERLING and BILL LEONARD, station personalities, spent the past week-end fishing off Montauk Point. BENEDICT GIMBEL, Jr., president and general manager of WIP, Philadelphia, today is in New York on business, while GORDON GRAY, vice-president of the station, is in Harrisburg, attending a meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters. WILT GUNZENDORFER, general manager of KROW, Oakland, Cal., is in town on a short business trip. DREW PEARSON, American network commentator, on Armistice Day was in Hays, Kansas, for a special network program in connection with the Freedom Train. HENRY MORGENTHAU, III, assistant program director at WNEW, is spending a week in the Virgin Islands. TONI ARDEN, Columbia Recording featured artist, is in Detroit for a one-week appearance at the Fox Theater. HOMER CANFIELD, western network manager of NBC, is in Gotham to confer with program officials of the web. 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