Radio showmanship (Sept 1940-May 1941)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio showmanship
Date:
Sept 1940-May 1941
Publisher:
Minneapolis : Showmanship Publications
Volume:
Radio showmanship (Sept 1940-May 1941)
Leaf #:
000145
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 21, 2023
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#% Elaborate window displays boost Question-Air, KROW Friday afternoon quiz show broadcast directly from the music-radio department of Oakland's (Calif.) largest department store, THE H. C. CAPWELL CO. Radio department leaser SHERMAN-CLAY & CO. sponsors the program, designed to bring traffic to the fourth floor, merchandise the 1941 PHILCO radio line. First prize each week is a PHILCO portable radio. Second, third, and fourth prizes are merchandise orders for ten, five, and two and one-half dollars. Alert KSL news sponsor SPERRY (breakfast food products) seized the natural tie-in between the popular pic, "He Stayed for Breakfast," and breakfast foods. Set up under the heading, "He'll Stay for Breakfast Every Morning, If You Serve SPERRY'S Pancakes, Waffles, Wheaties for Breakfast," was a SPERRY display right in the lobby of the Salt Lake City (Utah) theater featuring the picture. Every Sunday evening at seven o'clock an audience gathers in WWL's spacious studio, is served candy bars by the ELMER CANDY COMPANY, participates in a quiz show that jumbles jingles, riddles, musical rhymes. Free tickets are placed on all candy stands, spotted in the newspapers before each week's program. DECEMBER, 1940 149