Radio showmanship (Jan-Dec 1949)

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AIRING THE NEW "Banned in Boston" "Banned in Boston," a thirteen week series of "Stories to Remember," is making its debut over WCOP in Boston at 10:30 P. M. on Tuesdays. Program consists of a fifteen minute drama based on subject of tolerance. Following is another fifteenminute period of round-table talk by high school boys and girls in the area who will discuss the problems on a personal, local Boston level. Talks are moderated by the Rev. Duncan Howlett of the First Church of Boston. Food Buys Featured Best food buys of the day will be pointed up by "The Nickel Saver," new KOA Denver program sponsored by the local Save-A-Nickel stores. Contract for a 52-week series Monday through Saturday at 8:30 A. M. has been signed. Announcer Starr Yelland will give the daily bargains in food at the sponsors' stores and spin records with a featured artist or orchestra each day. Show for Home Lovers A new quarter hour Sunday afternoon show devoted to home lovers and home builders is a new offering of KMOX St. Louis. Special emphasis on beauty, efficiency, and utility in the new home and the old is placed by host and commentator, Lee Adams. Directed primarily towards a woman's audience, it also contains a variety of material of interest to a general audience. Adams' philosophical delivery has won him a place already in the homes of thousands of homemakers in the KMOX area who have heard him on previous programs. Bring Home the Bacon Residents of Newark, New Jersey are now being asked to "Bring Home the Bacon." It's all part of WNJR's new quiz show sponsored by the Tantleff Beef Company in Newark each Tuesday at 12:05 P. M. Contestants try for prizes with "meat in them." Hams, steaks, sausages, a leg of lamb, chickens, or eggs and butter go to the winning participants If the contestant misses the correct answer, he still wins — each one gets a pound of bacon to take home. • New Audience Show Nursery rhyme nonsense is getting material results for radio listeners via the new audience participation show "Sing for Your Supper." Broadcast over Pittsburgh's KGV, the program is emceed by Joe Mann, who uses telephone recordings to allow listeners to "sing for their supper." A melody is played. A phone call is made to a listener, requesting him to identify the tune and sing it. The song is then recorded. Three calls are made during the program, and the best singer is awarded a liberal supply of food products. Record of the winning "Voice" is played over the air. • Personal Approach to News Women's international news is getting the personal approach from WRNL's woman commentator, Polly Daffron. Over the Richmond, Virginia station she has introduced to her listeners the Launay family of Rennes, France. Weekly letters from children of the family and their parents and an uncle will give the WRNL audience a picture of life in Rennes and Paris today. Italian and English and Scandinavian family groups will get the same treatment later in the series. • Right Answer — Free Meal A free meal plus other prizes is the gimmick being used in San Antonio's newest radio quiz show. Broadcast over KMAC and KISS in the Texas city, the new "I'll Buy Your Dinner" program will be heard every Tuesday and Thursday from Ciro's Restaurant. Program is emceed by Bud Whaley. Besides picking up the check of 20 RADIO SHOWMANSHIP