Variety (Dec 1939)

38 VARIETY RADIO Wedacsdaj, December 6, I939 WOAI High School Band Contest to Be Sponsored By Liherty Mills in '40 San Antonio, Dec. S. | With WOAI's successful 'Commuii- ] Ity Choir Contest' having run its! course, Liberty Mills, the spohsor. | has okayed program to follow. On J Jan. 7 and for 19 Sundays thereafter.: there will be an invitational high school band radio competition [esli- j val with competing units from neighboring cities. Weekly cash; prizes as well as a grand award.. i • Each week two bands will compete \ against each other. These bands will be judged by radio performance alone. The winner each week re- ceives $30 and the loser $20. Besides this a contest will be con- ducted at each school with students writing a 250-word essay on 'What I Like About My ^Town' with the winner being given $S and the win- ning essay read over the air during the period its band is heard. Each band will pay all of its own expenses to the contest at San Antonio. Be- sides mail vote three judges who are active or have been active in army band circles have been selected. ALLOW BULOYA TO RETAIN WOV TITLE H. M. Mundlne promoted control room supervisor at WOAI, San An- tonio. Washington, Dec. 5, Consolidation of the three Arde Bulova outlets In New York, giving the watch magnate a full-time met- ropolitan plant, was ratified last week with issuance of the old WOV call letters for the new outlet that will use the UOO kc channel with 5 kw. Although thre«-letter calls are dis- couraged, the commish put the old label on the new station because of its 'good-will value,' noting that only 84 broadcasters now have three- letter tags. John Htartoind, H«)en Trey, Eddia Dvnitedtcr, John Cent* and Morlho Moon— ' talent on the CBS froBrom, "H Happened in Hollywood," for Hormel't SPAM. ...and it's happening right across th« Counlryl Radio Advcrtitart...Stations...Agencies... Composers... Artists... Theatre and Restaurant Ownars... Leaders In the Entertainment World—are turning to the HAMMOND Nevacherd Add the Novachord—the musical instru- ment that's NEWS—to your euteruinment music! Let the new, amazing Hammond Novachord give you the vast advantages oif a new and wider versatility! ITie Novachord is played like a piano—and itproduces beautifully clear, piano-like tones. Then, just a simple turn of Tone Selectors will add the musical effects of violin, trumpet, 'cello, flute —or dozens of other faitliful tones! Try the Hammond Novachord! Visit your Hammond dealer... write for more information: Hammond Idstrument Co., 2947 N. Western .4ve.,Chicago...0r go totheHammondOrgan Studios— In New YorJc: 50 W. 57th St.; In Let ^ngrfes: 3328 Wilshire Blvd. THE HAmImOND It's the NEW idea in Music ... by tiie malcers of tite Hammond Organ NBC'S EDUCATIONAL RALLY Chlcaco Pow-Wow With AHiliates FayiD( to Send DeUcatei Chicago, Dec. S. Initial NBC educators confab starts today (Tuesday) preceding the three-day national conference on educational radio which is under the chairmanship of Harold Kent, chief of the Chicago Public Schools Radio Council. Hostess of NBC confab is Judith Waller at the Drake hotel. Due in (all paying own expenses) are R. L. Harlow, Yankee Network; Clarence Moore, KOA, Denver; Rus- sel Gohring, WSPD, Toledo; John Tinnea, KWK, St. Louis; Puss Win- nie, WTMJ, Milwaukee; Harry Burke, WOW, Omaha; T. C. McCray, WTIC, HarUord; Hal Metzger, WTAM, Cleveland; Harry Kaufman, WDAF, Kansas City; Gayle Grubb, WKY, Oklahoma City; Frank Tooke, WOWO, Ft. Wayne; Robert De- Haven, WTCN, Minneapolis-St. Paul; Woody Woods, WHO, Des Moines; Edward Lineham, KSO-KRNT, Des Moines; Harry Stone, WSM, Nash- ville; S. b. Gregory, KDKA, Pitts- burgh. Expected from NBC in New York are president Lenox Lohr alo(ig with Walter G. Preston, Jr., Franklin Dunham, William Webb, Earl MuUin and Dr. James Angell who will pre- side at the afternoon session. Would-Be Schenectady Station Incoi^rated; Papers UninformaHve Albany, N. Y., Dec. 5. Van Curler Broadcasting Corp. has been chartered with the state to conduct a radio broadcasting busi- ness subject to FCC sanction in Schenectady. Authorized capital stock is $50,000 with shares of $100 par value. Directors, none of whom is listed in incorporation papers as a shareholder, are: Mayer L. Cramer. Mason W. Hall and Frank Vander- pool, of Schenectady. Subscribers, each owning one share, are: F. J. Knbrr, secretary of The Corporation Trust Co.;- Herbert W. Burmaster and Grace L. GUliland, listed as lo- cal employees of the company. Frank Scott, Washington, D. C, was filing attorney. Mason W. Hall, ono of directors, was in on Citizens Broadcasting Co., which sometime ago tried to obtain a license for a Schenectady station. This was at about the time the Tri- City group and Harry Wilder's Troy Broadcasting Co. applied for permits. In ths greenlighting by FCC of WTRY (to b« located in Troy), the other two wer« blocked out, al- though Trl-City appealed to the courts. Hall is head of a local shoe store and owner of an office build- ing. He has a son said to be am- bitious to crash radio broadcasting. M. L. Cramer, the second director. Is district distributor of Tydol Gas, which has for several years spon- sored a WGY sports program. Third director, Frank Vanderpool, Is pro- prietor of a garage. George Nelson and Tiny Leighton, of tha advertising agency bearing their names have also filed for a radio station in Schenectady. Vick Shift Pacific Serial Vick's thrice weekly serial, 'Be- yond Reasonable Doubt,' has been shifted on the NBC Pacific blue from 6 to 9 p.m. EST. Account figures to encounter less competition for its program through the move. KUTA, Salt Lake City, has added Miss Bunty Fabian to program dept. Mayor LaGoardia Insists On Solo Before Mike Mayor LaGuardia, of. New York -will appear Dec. 8 on NBC's 'Yester- day's Children' program, but refused to be interviewed by Mrs. Dorothy Gordon, the m.c. Hizzoner insisted on it being between himself and the mike with no liaison. Charles Warburton has replaced Frank Dodge as the program's di- rector. 1,800 TEXAS SCHOOLS TUNE IN CBS' SHOW San Antonio, Dec. J Mor« than 1,800 South Texas schools are participating in tha 'American School of the Air' pro. gram heard over KTSA every Fi i- day. In addition schools from 13 South Texas towns so far have been invited to send their students to KTSA to take part in the progiami by discussing the various subjects treated over the air. Hal Burnett to Boston For BUly B. Van Show Chicago, Dec. 5. 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