Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY: Friday. November 25, 1949 SOUTHWEST /^TELEVISION staffs throughout the A country are learning new things every day, but WBAP-TV, Fort Worth, brought up a new one during a crowded studio audience composed mostly of children. The bazooka-like Zoomar lens was too much of a temptation to one of the youngsters who couldn't find a safe location for his brand-new cowboy hat. When the picture went out several seconds of consternation were consumed before production manager Tommy Thompson discovered the hat had used the Zoomar lens as its resting place. Levoy Heading East For Video-Film Deal (Continued from Page 1) 12 Vz minute subjects have been produced, is currently being aired via Procter and Gamble "Fireside Theater" via NBC-TV, a first run, 30-day revision basis. Talks will take up production of 26 V2 minute subjects with format tailored to sponsor specifications. As in case of "Strange Adventure" series, projected groups of films would be supervised by a minimum of at least four different producer-directors and would draw upon fact and fiction for a variety of subject matter. Levoy expects to remain in Manhattan for several weeks. Hollywood's New COUNTRY CLUB HOTEL • The Country Club Hotel occupies a magnificent location in the heart of the exclusive Wilshire residential district . . . adjacent to Wilshire Country Club and overlooking the expanse of its gorgeous fairways and greens. • Rates from $6.00 up. Sinr gle Kitchenette Apartments Available by Week or Month. coram club hotel 445 North Rossmore Avenue (Vine St.) Hollywood 4, Calif. Telephone: Hollywood 9-2701 Windy City Wordage. . . ! 9 9 9 Ron Mills and Gene Clears of Mills Recording Co. are both expectant fathers. Offsprings are due in January. . . . Lew Green, head of Green & Associates, reports the best season to date for his transcribed "Leahy of Notre Dame" series. More than ChiCCCCJO a hundred stations used the feature this year. . Mort Jacobson, head of Morton Radio Productions, is back from a business trip to Minneapolis. . . . Jerry Joss, head of Joss Radio Features, has sold his "Calling All Detectives" to 10 stations. Three recent sales include WGN, Chicago; KYW, Philadelphia, and KMBC, Kansas City. . . . The House of Vision, leading local optical firm, planning to get their feet wet in television shortly. it it it it • • • Tony Weitzel, columnist for "The Chicago Daily News," has started a nightly five-minute show on WBBM. . . . P. K. Wrigley may start plugging his new package of 18 sticks when he starts sponsorship of "Life with Luigi" after the first of the year. . . . Roy McLaughlin, president of the Chicago Radio Management Club (he's manager of WEiNR and WENR-TV on the side), can take a well-deserved bow for the top-notch array of guest speakers he has lined up. Ex-presidential candidate Alf Landon is slated to be the club's next guest speaker. . . . Hottest disc jockey in town is Frann Weigel. He has a London recording out which he has done in eight singing voices. . . . It's been synchronized so that it sounds like an octet. He'll be the deejay on the Dunn-Joel "Dick Jockey" TV package which bows in as a weekly program series over WGN-television on December 4th at 5:30 p.m. it it it 9 9 9 Ray Jones, hard-working AFRA executive secretary, is back from Kenosha where he scored a victory in negotiations with WLIP. 250-watt indie station. AFRA got recognition it had been seeking for all microphone personalities and three writers. . . . ABC's Ell Henrycan take a bow for the front page publicity he received by tieing up two ABC programs, "Super Circus" and "Larry on Location" in connection with the arrival of Santa Clous by boat Saturday . . . Myron Barg conducting his disc jockey show featuring celebrity interviews from the lounge of the new Telenews Theater. The programs are broadcast over WMOR. it it it 9 9 9 Jim Moran, the Courtesy Man of Courtesy Motors, so pleased with the success of his weekly feature film presentation over WGN-TV that he's renewing the show for another 13 weeks. Agency is Malcolm-Howard. . . . Tommy Bartlett, host of NBC's "Welcome Travelers" was recently made a member of the Chippewa Indian tribe. He helped some tribe members get foodstuff and clothing. Now they call Tommy a Chippewa off the old block! . . . Fred Kilian, central division director for ABC's TV programs, has appointed Phillip G. Patton executive producer. . . . WHBF-TV will join the ABCTV network on April 1st. And they're not fooling! . . . Linn Burton's "Second Cup" TV show may soon go across the board. . . . The Harmonicats are working with NBC comedienne Judy Canova at several dates around the midwest. . . . Ex-Chicago radio actress Mercedes McCambridge is drawing raves for her initial motion picture role in "All the King's Men." AGENCIES EZRA R. BAKER, formerly sales manager of American Cinefoto Corporation, has been appointed charge of sales for Hollywood Television Productions. Baker has supervised film production work for the National Biscuit Co., Topps Chewing Gum, Aetna Life Insurance, Philco Corp. and Sheffield Farms. WILLIAM J. MORRIS has joined Wilding Picture Productions, Inc., New York, as account executive. He was formerly connected with the motion picture department of J. Walter Thompson and, more recently, was supervisor of motion picture and television production for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn and The Biow Company. G. RANDOLPH ELLIOT has been named the field director for television research of Daniel Starch and Staff. JOHN WOLCOTT, formerly in charge of market research for the Neal D. Ivey, Co., Philadelphia, has been named research director for the Gray & Rogers agency, same city. JOSEPH E. HALE, for almost 30 years a display representative of the Camden Courier Post News, Camden, N. J., recently joined the sales staff of WCAM, Camden. CHARLES C. RADOW, former business manager of the Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra, now dissolved, has joined the Cye Landy Advertising Agency, Columbus, O. J^end i^i r t lid ay November 25 Miriam Jaffe Rex Maupin George Cushing Kate McComb November 26 Igor Gorin Henry Levine Charles Radcliff Frank Simon David Stone Larry Lowenstein November 27 Bill Demling Francis Conrad George Hogan Ted Husing Mary Lynch William Miller Mary Livingston November 28 Frank Black Joan A. Hewitt Helen Jepson Reed Lawton Elliott Lewis William Lundell November 29 Alan Courtney Claudine French Margery Knapp Florence Lake November 30 Jack Brinkley Lillian Stone Noel Corbett Happy Felton December 1 B. S. Bercovici Michael A. Fiore Ted Hammerstein Ray Henderson Mary Martin Patricia Ryan Dave Zimmerman