Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Vol. 49, No. 39 Wed., Nov. 30, 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 0436 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older, Chief 6417 Dahlonega Rd. Phone: Wisconsin 3271 CHICAGO BUREAU H«l Tate, Manager. 360 No. Michigan Ave. Phone: Randolph 6-6650 SOUTHWEST BUREAU Paul Glrard. 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., nnder the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL — (November 29) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE ABC Admiral Corp. . . . Am. Tel. & Tel. . CBS A Philco Philco pfd RCA Common . RCA 1st pfd Stewart-Warner . . Westinghouse . . Westinghouse pfd. Zenith Radio High 7i/4 28% Low 7 28% Close 7'/« Net Chg. Vs 28% — 1/4 1471/s 146% 147 + l/s 25 30 84 121/2 73V4 11% 275/g 243/4 293/4 82l/2 121/4 731/4 11% 27% + 25 30 821/2 — 123/s + 73V4 — 11% — 271/2 1003/4 1003/4 1003/4 — 1/4 285/s 285/8 285/g — % NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. ... 15% 1434 143,4 ■ Nat. Union Radio 25/8 21/2 2'/2 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked DuMont Lab 14y4 151/4 Stromberg-Carlson 133,4 15 Wedding Bells Enid Rae Levy, daughter of Nat Levy, RKO Radio eastern division sales manager and Mrs. Levy, was married Sunday to George Robert Pager, of this city. The ceremony took place in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Miss Levy has for the past few years been active in the production end of the Ted Mack "Original Amateur Hour" on Radio and TV. * COfniNG AND GOING ■< O. B. HANSON, vice-president and chief engineer at NBC, and LESTER LOONEY, assistant manager of radio allocations, together with FREDERICK SMITH and HAROLD MITLER, television engineers, are in Camden, N. J., for a meeting of the NBC-RCA Victor liaison committee. FRED BERNSTEIN, sales manager of WTTM, Trenton, N. J., is vacationing with his family in Charleston, S. C. ANDRE ROBERT, press representative of CKAC, Montreal, sailed from New York yesterday aboard the De Grasse. CHARLES ADAMS, executive producer of West Hooker Telefeatures, Inc., is in New Hope, Pa., for conferences on a new, halfhour dramatic package. CY HOWARD, producer of "My Friend Irma" and "Life With Luigi" on CBS, is back in Hollywood following a week in Chicago and Milwaukee. JOHNNY OLSEN, emcee on "Ladies Be Seated" over ABC; his wife, PENNY, and the entire cast of the show are in St. Louis. The show will originate the remainder of the week at the St. Louis Food Fair. SARA BRENER, that telephone operatoi voice on the Jack Benny program over CBS, is in town from Hollywood. G. L. CARRINGTON, president of the Altec Companies, and DR. E. M. HONAN, engineering manager of the Altec Lansing Corp., both of whom had been in New York on business, have returned to the West Coast. JESSE B. MASS, American network news writer, yesterday left for his annual threeweek vacation at Miami Beach, Fla. SAMUEL R. SAGUE, president of WSRS, Cleveland, spent the Thanksgiving week-end in Washington, and now is in New York on a business trip. KEN SPARNON, of the BMI field staff, is en route to Rochester, N. Y., where on Friday he will address the radio class of the University of Rochester on the subject, "Music in Radio and TV." BERT LOWN, station relations director of Associated Program Service, attended this week's NAB regional in Phoenix, Ariz., and now will go on to San Francisco for the District 15 confab and then to Salt Lake City, where District 14 will meet. College Basketball To Be Aired By WMGM (Continued from Page 1) the five firms are also footing the bill for the coverage of professional basketball. The first broadcast will be tomorrow night when N.Y.U. plays Vanderbilt and L.I.U. opposes Texas A & M at the Garden. Marty Glickman and Connie Desmond will handle the Garden games and Glickman, Bud Palmer, and Curt Gowdy will rotate the broadcasts from the Armory. Will Air Post-Season Games WMGM will also carry two afternoon broadcasts and five evening broadcasts of the National Invitation Tourney after the regular season ends in addition to three evening broadcasts of the National Collegiate Athletic Association finals and the East-West All Star game. Town Meeting Cutting To Half Hour Program (Continued from Page 1) speakers with part of the time being allotted to a question and answer period. At present four speakers are used on each program. The program was launched 15 years ago by George Denny, Jr., and patterned after the New England Town Hall meetings. It has been the recipient of many public service awards and Denny recently returned from a world tour at which time the program originated in many foreign capitals. Quick As A Flash Show Moves From MBS To ABC (Continued from Page 1) on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays replacing the cereal company's sponsorship of "Talk Your Way Of It." Bill Cullen will emcee. The agency is C. J, LaRoche & Company of Chicago. Weekend Listening Increases In New York (Continued from Page 1) "Inner Sanctum," 12.2; Louella Parsons, 12.0; "My Friend Irma," 11.5; and "Crime Photographer," 11.5. The top three evening programs held the same positions in the October Pulse. Arthur Godfrey led the day-time 5-a-week ratings with 9.7. Other top rated day-time programs were: "Rosemary," 8.3; "Grand Slam," 7.9; "Helen Trent," 7.7; "Our Gal Sunday," 7.5; "Big Sister," 7.4; "Aunt Jenny," 6.9; "Ma Perkins," 6.9; "Wendy Warren," 6.7; and "Young Doctor Malone," 6.7. All ratings among the evening shows have showed a drop, compared with the same period last year. Benny dropped 1.3, Winchell dropped 3.0, and Lux Radio Theater dipped 4.2. Pulse found 22.4 radio average quarter-hour sets in use for the week. Tery To Leave WINS For Music Post At WFLN Joseph Tery, production manager of WINS, New York, since October. 1948, will join WFLN, Philadelphia, on Dec. 1, as head of the music department. In other staff changes at WINS, Helen Sherritt, formerly of WOKO, Albany, has been named assistant to Dorothy Aden, continuity editor. Miss Sherritt replaces Grace Whiting, who has been appointed assistant traffic manager. 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