Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY: Friday. December 30. 194J Webs Plan Big New Year's Eve; N.Y.C. Indies Also Going 'All-Out* (Continued from Page 1) 1:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, will feature a roundup of the news events of the first fifty years of the century backed up by recorded comments by the outstanding news personalities of the era. James Fleming will edit and narrate the special program. Other special programs over the week-end include: on Saturday, at 2:30 p.m., "Boys Town, Italy" which will feature Alchide di Gasperi, Premier of Italy, Myron Taylor, U.S. Envoy to the Vatican, and Gen. Mark Clark; at 3:00 p.m., "Armed Forces Across the International Date Line" a series of armed forces pickups from Tokyo and Guam; and at 3:30 p.m., "Forecast — 1950," a special program narrated by Robert Trout which will be made up of aroundthe-world news pickups from NBC foreign and domestic news bureaus. Special 'Round Table' Set On New Year's Day, NBC plans a special University of Chicago "Round Table" program which will review the half century just passed and will predict some possible developments during the next fifty years. Also the web will gather together ten of the nation's outstanding newsmen for a review entitled "Voice of the Press" of the half century passed and a prediction of possible headlines during the half century to come .This program features such journalists as Roy Roberts, Whitelaw Reid, Virgil Pinkley, William H. Hessler and Wright Bryan. "Round Table" will be heard at 1:30 p.m. and "Voice of the Press" will air at 1 p.m. All times are Eastern Standard. Mutual will start its "Dance Parade" at 11 p.m. (EST) with remote pickups from New York hotels featuring name orchestras and will cut into a Times Square pick-up at 11:55 p.m. From that time on through the early morning hours MBS will follow Father Time through the time zones ending up at 4 a.m. with a pick-up from Hawaii featuring the music of Niumalu Hozl. Between the hours of 11 p.m. and 4 a.m., Mutual will broadcast the music of Guy Lombardo, Ray Anthony, Emil Coleman, Hal Mclntyre, Art Waner, Ray McKinley, Dick Jurgens, Lawrence Welk, Freddie Nagle, Jimmy Palmer, Xavier Cugat and Mr. Hozl. ABC Features Bands ABC has planned a similar evening and early morning program of dance music complete with the Times Square cut-in at Midnight. In addition, the web will broadcast a special pre-game broadcast from New Orleans at the Sugar Bowl Dinner. This show will be emceed by sportscaster Harry Wismer and will feature interviews of sports personalities present at the dinner. Music-wise, ABC will offer listeners the orchestras of Hal Wayne, Frankie Masters, Henry Busse, Jack Nye, Buddy Clark, Dick Jurgens and Leighton Noble. San Francisco will be the termination point of ABC's cross country trip in pursuit of the turn of the mid-century. CBS will present a cross country "Dancing Party" featuring the music Brief Encounter One of the shortest sponsored shows on radio, a description of the stroke of midnight in Times Square, to be heard over WOR from 1212:03 a.m. on Jamiary 1 will be bankrolled by the Eveready division of National Carbon Co. The three minutes will also be used to describe the lighting of a huge spotlight advertisement being placed in Times Square by Eveready. of a large variety of name bands from key cities throughout the nation. On New Year's Day, highlighting the turn of the half-way mark of the 20th Century, CBS will present a special program, sponsored by Chevrolet. Entitled "Mid-Century," this show will bring together in New York the chiefs of CBS news bureaus throughout the world for an analysis of the state of civilization as it enters 1950. Edward R. Murrow will chair the discussion which, in addition to the foreign bureau heads, features Eric Severeid and Larry Leseur. Indies Announce Plans A nostalgic glance at 1949 will be given by several independent stations in reviews of top news events and music from the year. WLIB will begin bright and early on The House That Jack Built show from 7 to 10 a.m. with the top tunes of the year. Following this on the same station from 10 to 11 a.m. will be music from the theater during 1949. Music composed since 1900 will come in for consideration on WQXR's Our Musical Heritage Series from 8:05 to 10 p.m. beginning on New Year's Night. WQXR will present other compositions of this century in further programs each Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. A round-the-clock feature which began this week and continuing until New Year's Day are greetings from MGM stars such as Lena Home, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and others heard on station breaks over WMGM. Another backward glance at 1949 is the WOR program highlighting the ten top news stories of the year as compiled by the United Press. Earl Johnson, v-p and general manager for UP, will narrate on the broadcast from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. with assists from WOR newscasters and Bernard Baruch. A similar review of 1949 news will be broadcast in Italian by WHOM from 4: 30 to 5 p.m. While this is the feature presentation of the station, other broadcasts with a New Year theme will be carried in Polish, Jewish, Spanish and German. In honor of the day itself with no glance in either direction will be greetings from WOR personalities heard from 8 to 9 a.m. in the mornings. Greetings from WOR-TV stars will be broadcast from 12 to 12:30 p.m. on January 1. WQXR will air Volume II of "I Can Hear It Now" on the first day of 1950 with sounds and voices which made history since 1945 taking the spotlight. WNEW To "Crystal Gaze" WNEW will go crystal gazing on a program titled Calling the Future to be heard from 5 to 5: 30 p.m. on January 1. Allyn Edwards will place calls to leaders in all walks of life and interview them about their prophecies of things to come. Other programs include a New Year's message by the Rev. Carl Chworowsky of the Unitarian Church in Brooklyn at 9:45 p.m. on WEVD. The whole half-century will be s:anned on a WVNJ review to be broadcast from 7:35 to 8:30 p.m. Hit songs of 1949 will be carried by the FCC Withholds Reply To Para. On Transfer (Continued from Page 1) for in a letter written last week for a Commission iokay by Jan. 1 for the assignment of the control of Balaban and Katz stations in Chicago (WBK1B and WBIK) and WSMB-FM, New Orleans, to the new theater company. In the case of the New Orleans stations, Paramount asked for Commission approval for the transfer of control of 50 per cent of the stock of Paramount Richards Theaters, Inc., which controls 50 per cent of the stock of WSMB, Inc., from Paramount Pictures to United Paramounted Theaters, Inc., and a transfer of the 'other 50 per cent of Paramount Richards Theaters, Inc., from E. V. Richards, Jr., to United Paramount Theaters. The stations were held equally by Paramount Pictures and Paramount Richards, but will be turned over entirely to United Paramount Theaters. The transfers are pursuant to the Paramount consent decree in the Government anti-trust suit. station in a program from 10 to 10:30 p.m. WWRL will also banner hit songs on New Year's Eve from 10: 15 to Midnight. £ • faces • facts • figures • wins • u o AMERICANS, SPEAK UP! 10:45-1 1:00 P. M. MONDAY A series of inspiring, informative talks by prominent Americans. 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