Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Wednesday, November 16, 1949 * COmiNG AND GOING * Vol. 49, No. 30 Wed., Nov. 16, 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. Bahn, Vice-President; Charles A. Alicojjte, 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. Cable 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 Tata, Managtr. 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., •>nder the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL = (November 15) S — NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. ABC 7V4 7V4 71/2 Admiral Corp 291/4 285/s 283/4 % Am. Tel. & Tel. . . 1461/s 1455/8 1457/g 1/4 CBS A 25V8 243/4 243A 5/8 CBS B 251/s 241/4 241/4 % Philco 293/8 293/8 293/8 3/8 Philco Pfd 81 80 1/4 81 + IV4 RCA Common 123/8 12 12'/8 1/4 Stewart-Warner 113/4 111/2 ll5/8 + v» Wesfinghouse 27 265/g 27 Westinghouse Pfd. 100i/2 100 1001/8 + Vs Zenith Radio 273/4 273/4 273/4 Va NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. . . 14 7/8 14% 14% + Vs Nat. Union Radio . 21/2 23/8 21/2 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Du Mont Lab 14 15 Stromberg-Carlson 14 151/4 WCAO (Baltimore) 17 20 WJR (Detroit) 7l/2 8 Cardinal To Broadcast Francis Cardinal Spellman will broadcast a ten-minute appeal over CBS today at 4:35 p.m. on behalf of the Bishop's Thanksgiving Clothing and Soap Collection for overseas relief. The collection is being conducted throughout the U. S. this week by the War Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. 0. B. HANSON, vice-president and director of engineering at NBC, today is in Camden, N. J., for the meeting of the RCANBC liaison committee. He is accompanied by the principal officials of the network's engineering department, including CHESTER A. RACKEY, LESTER LOONEY, J. WOOD, Jr., GEORGE M. NIXON, THOMAS PHAELAN and F. A. WANKEL. DICK MASON is in town. The general manager of WPTF, Raleigh, N. C, had a tete-a-tete yesterday witti station-relations officials at NBC. LAWRENCE ROGERS is tiere from WSAZ-TV, Huntington, West Va. He conferred Monday at CBS offices. SAUL HAAS, owner of KIRO, Columbia network outlet in Seattle, Wash., was welcomed yesterday at the offices of the web. ALLAN WOODALL, manager of WDAK, Columbus, Go., conferred yesterday with officials of the stations department at NBC, with which the station is affiliated. C. P. EDWARDS, Jr., president of WKPT, Kingsport, Tenn., an NBC affiliote, visited yesterday ot the station relations deportment of the network. J. W. KIRKPATR1CK, general manager of WCOV, Montgomery, Ala., is in town. Talked for a while yesterday with officials of the Columbia network. Canadian Set Sales Continue Upward Trend (Continued from Page 1) said one manufacturer of radio parts. "We have enough orders on hand right now to keep us going at full production for a couple of months." Figures released by the Radio Manufacturers' Association of Canada showed their members (more than 90 per cent of all Canadian radio makers) had sold 461,013 sets to the end of September, compared with 340,576 in the same nine months of last year, and inventories had been cut back to 140,280 units from 170,912 on the same date last year. Radio-Video Coverage Of Rose Bowl Game Set (Continued from Page 1) Mirror-CBS television station carrying the game live and other network affiliates broadcasting filmed highlights of the game on the next day. CBS sports director Red Barber has been assigned to handle the play-by-play radio coverage. The broadcaster for the television coverage will be announced later. Maxon, Inc., is the agency for Gillette. Ursula Halloran Promoted Ursula Halloran, assistant trade editor in the press department of NBC, has been named column editor, it has been announced by Josef C. Dine, director of the press department. Miss Halloran joined NBC in March of this year. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she has done promotional work in the dramatic field on the West Coast and more recently was a copy writer for the Gimbel department store in Pittsburgh. HUGH FELTIS is in town from KING-TV, Seattle. Paid a call Monday at the headquarters of CBS. ANDY McDERMOTT, sales manager of Horace W. Stovin's Toronto office, is spending a few doys in New York. HARRY C. BUTCHER, owner of KIST, affiliate of NBC in Santa Barbara, Cat, is in Gotham on station business. HENRY MORGAN, the NBC personality, on Friday will be in Buffalo, N. Y., where he will be guest of honor at the luncheon of the Circus Saints and Sinners. JOSEPH CLOSE, owner of WKNE, Columbia network outlet in Keene, N. H., is in Gotham on business. PHIL HANNA, radio singing star, will arrive today aboard the He de France. He had been in London, featured in "Brigadoon." HALSEY BARRETT, manager of the spot sales department for the DuMont Television Network, has arrived in Bermuda aboard the Queen of Bermuda. He is accompanied by MRS. BARRETT. They plan to return in about two weeks. CONNIE DESMOND, Columbia network sportscaster, is back from Columbia, Mo., where last Saturday he covered the game between Oklahoma and Missouri. ROBERT C. FEHLMAN, station manager of WHBC, Canton, Ohio, is here on business. Mayor To Use Radio To Reach N. Y. Citizens (Continued from Page 1) derstand, there are newspapers and newspapers. I may from time to time correct misinformation that some newspapers have given in the past, particularly during the campaign." O'Dwyer charged during and after his campaign for re-election that most of New York's papers were being "unfair" to him, and distorting his views and statements. A reporter asked the Mayor if he intended to read the Sunday comics over WNYC, as the late Mayor LaGuardia did in 1945 during a newspaper delivery strike. "I wouldn't be surprised if the people would enjoy what I have to say, sometimes," Mayor O'Dwyer replied, with dignity. TV's Role In Education Seen As Supplementary (Continued from Page 1) of discussion programs, told the New Jersey Education Assn. in an address here last week. Television, he said, will thus take its place with radio, records, and films in providing additional experiences for pupils to augment their classroom instruction. "If the experience of network radio is a guide," Levine added, "television will not very successfully meet the needs of classrooms on a nationwide basis, but only at the local level." AVAILABLE Presently employed small market station manager who seeks change. Here's a man who has come up through the ranks and knows every phase of station operation. Proven record in sales and promotion. Thirteen years radio and newspaper background. Experienced as program director, announcer, copy chief and director of special events. 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