Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

_ _ _ _ _ gkMi. Wednesday. December 7. 1949 RADIO DAILY — Vol. 49, No. 44 Wed., Dec. 7, 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. AlicOL'te, 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, Manager. 612 N. Michigan Ave. Phone: Superior 7-1044 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., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL (.December 6) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE ABC Admiral Corp. Am. Tel. & Tel. CBS A CBS B Philco Philco pfd RCA Common RCA 1st pfd. . . . Stewart-Warner . . Westinghouse Westinghouse pfd. Zenith Radio . . . . 75/8 . 29% .1481/4 253/8 . 25 V4 293/4 82 • 12% 73 . 121/4 . 30 IOIV2 . 311/4 7% 293/4 148 25V8 251/s 29l/2 82 123/4 73 121/s 293/g 1 01 1/4 301/4 7% 293/4 H81/4 + 1/4 25V4 25% — % 291/2 — 1/4 82 — HA 123/4 73 121/4 + % 297/g + V IOIV2 + V 31% + 3/4 NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. .. 17 16% 16% — Nat. Union Radio. . 2% 2l/2 2'/2 — % OVER THE COUNTER Bid DuMont Lab 14 Stromberg-Carlson 12 Asked 15 131/4 KIT Joining NBC KIT, Yakima, Wash., will be affiliated with NBC's sound broadcasting network effective Jan. 1, 1950, Easton C. Woolley, director of Stations Department for the network announced yesterday. KIT, which becomes the 172nd member of the NBC's radio network, is owned by Carl E. Haymond. The power of the station is 5,000 watts during the day and 1,000 watts at night. * COmiNG AND GOING * A. E. JOSCELYN, director of operations for CBS in Hollywood, has returned to the film capital after having attended the meeting of the 16th District, NAB, which was held in Phoenix, Ariz. CRIS RASHBAUM, Eastern sales representative of KTLA, Paramount's station in Los Angeles, is expected back in New York today following a 10-day visit to the West Coast station. J. B. FUQUA, owner and manager of WJBF, Augusta, Ga.t was in conference yesterday with Norman Cash, of the station relations department at NBC. MILTON SHREDNICK, director erf music for KOA, Denver affiliate of NBC, is spending ten days in New York. This is his home town, but he hasn't been here since before Radio City was built. LES MITCHEL, producer-director of "Skippy Hollywood Theater" on CBS, is back in the film capital following a short business trip to San Francisco. ALLEN A. WALSH, audio-video installation engineer for NBC, has returned from Chicago, where during the past nine months he was assigned to the construction and installation of TV facilities. WILLIAM S. PIRIE, JR., director of national sales for WFBR, Baltimore, arrived in New York yesterday on a short business trip. SAUL HAAS, owner of KIRO, Seattle, Wash., is now in Gotham. He was welcomed yesterday at the headquarters of CBS, with which the station is affiliated. HOWARD WORRALL, general manager of KGMB, Honolulu outlet of CBS, has arrived from Hawaii on station business. JOHN EDWARDS, American network commentator, today will leave Washington for Florida, where he will replace Bryson Rash, special features director of WMAL, who is covering President Truman's vacation. Edwards will remain in Key West for the duration of Mr. Truman's trip. Newell-Emmett Dissolve; Form New Agency (Continued from Page 1) by a new corporation, Cunningham & Walsh, Inc. Clarence D. Newell, who founded the agency in 1919, and Clifford S. Walsh, an original associate, will retire from the agency and have no financial or other interest in the new company. John P. Cunningham, George S. Fowler, William Reydel, Richard L. Strobridge, Fred H. Walsh, present Newell-Emmett partners, and Earl H. Ellis, G. Everett Hoyt, and Robert R. Newell will be stockholders in the new agency. Thomas J. Maloney, who merged his agency with Newell-Emmett in 1942, says he will not be part of the new company, but will announce new plans soon. Radio accounts handled by the agency include Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., Sherwin Williams, and Electrical Auto-Lite Co., International Silver Co., Sylvania Electric Co., and Liggett & Myers are among their television accounts. Standard Oil Sponsors The Cleveland Symphony (Continued from Page 1) January 8th at 4:30-5:30. The concerts will be under the direction of Rudolph Ringwall, associate conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. Other stations carrying the concerts are: WSPD, Toledo; WCOL, Columbus; WKRC, Cincinnati; WLK, Lima; WKBN, Youngstown; WHIO, Dayton and WIZE, Springfield. Fulton Lewis Interviewed At New York Conference Three Jersey Stations Plan Anniversaries (Continued from Page 1) Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Jr., Theodore Streibert, president of WOR, and singer Fran Warren will give special recorded messages. Ivan B. Newman, v-p and general manager of the station will discuss the growth and future plans of the 5 kw outlet. WMTR To Celebrate WMTR in Morristown will also celebrate a first anniversary with a program to be heard this Sunday, December 11, from 1:05 to 1:45 p.m. The past year's activities and programs will be reviewed and greetings will be given by various local officials. The third anniversary of WCTC in New Brunswick will be observed on the same day with a special broadcast in which WMTR will be saluted. (Continued from Page 1) by 100 press, radio and television representatives. The conference was called in connection with Lewis' atomic expose and present with him was Major G. Racey Jordan, former Air Force Officer, who disclosed wartime traffic in atomic materials to Russia on the commentator's program last week. Novik Signs A.F.L. Show On Coast Starting Jan. 2 (Continued from Page 1) and has set Frank Edwards as commentator. Edwards in the past, enjoyed top hooper rating in Indianapolis as commentator. Novik also arranged to have the program carried live at 7 p.m. by the garment workers radio station, KWTK and KFMV-FM, Burbank, Calif. The I.L.G.W.TJ. has an_ application before the Commission to purchase KWIK. Don Lee network arrangements were handled through Mort Ingraham. Novik left last night and will stop off in Chicago to complete similar arrangements in the Windy City area. Isaac Braunfeld Isaac Braunfeld, father of Archibald Braunfeld, radio and TV public accountant, died Monday in New York. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., today at Service Park West chapel, 115 West 79th Street. Problem Solved This little lion cub got deserted by its mother in the zoo. So the female boxer is playing foster mother, and solving all the baby lion's problems. Advertisers are facing some pretty tough problems these days as the competition gets stiffer in the rich markets. There's an easy way to solve them in Baltimore — you buy W-I-T-H, the BIG independent with the BIG audience. W-I-T-H regularly delivers more listeners-per-dollar than any other station in town. That means you can get BIG results with LITTLE money on W-I-T-H. So if you're looking for lowcost results from radio in Baltimore, call in your Headley-Reed man and get the W-I-T-H story. Baltimore 3, Maryland TOM TINSLtY, President R«pre*Ant«d by Headl«y-R««d