Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

12. The three foremost studio announcers? Announcer 1st Choice Milton J. Cross _. David Ross John S. Young Graham McNamee Bill Hay James Wellington Alois Havrilla — 26 23 13 10 7 7 3 2nd Choice 17 15 14 3rd Choice 8 12 4 9 4 Points 120 111 81 55 41 35 35 13. The foremost commentator on news, life, morals and the like? Lowell Thomas 44 votes, H. V. Kaltenborn 19, Floyd Gibbons 12, Rev. Charles E. Coughlin 7, Frederick William Wile 6, Tony Wons and William Hard 5 each, Heywood Broun, John B. Kennedy and S. Parkes Cadman 3 each, Will Rogers, Walter Winchell and David Lawrence 2 each, Dr. Frank Payne, Merle Thorpe, Old Counsellor, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Irvin Cobb and Philips Lord 1 each. 14. The foremost organist? Jesse Crawford 75 votes, Ann Leaf 22, Lew White 14, Archer Gibson 4, Mormon Tabernacle and Irma Glenn 2 each, Del Castillo, Fred Bibilo, Paul Carson, B. L. Taylor and Paul Rader 1 each. 15. The foremost instrumental soloist (violinist, pianist, etc.) ? Toscha Seidel 59 votes, David Rubinoff 24, Del Staigers 6, Ernest Hutcheson 5, Godfrey Ludlow and Little Jack Little 3, Rudolph Friml and Lee Sims 2 each, Jascha Heifetz, Fray and Braggiotti, Ted Lewis, Sam Herman, Jesse Crawford, Yascha Bunchuk, Lolita Cabrera Gainsborg, Max Dolin, Kathleen Stewart and Eddie Dunsteder 1 each. 16 The three foremost all-dramatic programs? Program Sherlock Holmes March of Time Radio Guild Showboat Mary and Bob Arabesque Choice 2nd Choice 3rd Choice Points 25 25 10 135 24 9 4 94 15 5 4 59 9 5 12 49 6 12 3 45 7 6 9 42 17. Program Erno Rapee Orchestra with Vir ginia Rea and Frank Munn_. Rosario Bourdon Orchestra witl Jessica Dragonette chestras Parade of States Philadelphia Orchestra 1st Choice 2nd Choice 3rd Choice Points 21 21 10 115 h 10 11 9 61 7 6 4 37 f 9 2 4 35 6 3 7 31 5 5 6 31 18. The foremost comedy act? Gloomchasers, the Colonel and Budd 28 votes, Cuckoo 14, Sisters of the Skillet 13, Three Doctors 11, Eddie Cantor 9, Amos 'n' Andy 7, Rise of the Goldbergs and Jones and Hare 6 each, Clara, Lu and 'Em 5, Real Folks and Phil Cook 4 each, Frank Wanatabe and the Honorable Archy 2, Al and Pete, Gene and Glenn, Singin' Sam, Crumit and Sanderson, Minstrels, Weber and Fields, Gilmore Circus, Hook, Line and Sinker, Nit-Wits, Ben Bernie, Late Uncle Abe and David 1 each. 19. The foremost children's program? Lady Next Door with Madge Tucker 32 votes, NBC Sunday Hour 13, Jolly Bill and Jane and School of the Air 7 each, Columbia Sunday Morning Hour 6, Little Orphan Annie 5, Music Appreciation with Walter Damrosch 4, Uncle Bob, Children's Story Dramatized, Uncle Don, Frontier Tales, Helen and Mary 3 each, Raising Junior, Old Man Sunshine, Ernest Schelling Concerts and Uncle Olie 2 each, Sunday School Hour, Bob Emory, Daddy and Rollo, Uncle Dave, Carveth Wells and Amos V Andy 1 each. 20. The foremost program offering advice to women in home? Ida Bailey Allen 29 votes, Woman's Radio Revue 21, Colonel Goodbody 7, Sisters of Skillet 4, Betty Crocker, Family Circle, Magazine of Air and Farm and Home Hour 3 each, Mrs. Blake, Household Institute 2 each, Mrs. Julian Heath, Your Child, Household Chats, Mystery Chef, Mary Hale Martin, Forecast School of Cookery, Peggy Winthrop, Dr. Copeland, Home Forum, and Edna Wallace Hopper 1 each. 21. Which three entertainers originally identified solely with the stage in your judgment have made the greatest success on the air? Actor 1st Choice 2nd Choice 3rd Choice Points Eddie Cantor 53 13 7 192 Ruth Etting 8 12 4 52 Julia Sanderson 2 11 6 34 Will Rogers 6 4 6 32 Morton Downey 6 7 0 32 Recorded Programs Daily Becomes Weekly MANY broadcast advertisers are now having their radio programs recorded in permanent form for various uses, reports The New York Sun. In some instances these recorded programs are intended for supplementary broadcasting through independent radio stations seeking the better type of programs and for entertainment purposes before large gatherings. It is believed that 16-inch slow speed recording will gain steadily in popularity and may even find its way into homes, thereby permitting radio listeners to repeat favorite broadcast programs at will. NORMAN BAKER, whose KTNT, Muscatine, la., was ordered off the air by the Federal Radio Commission last summer, on Dec. 3 announced that his Midwest Free Press, established as a daily newspaper about a year ago, will be published hereafter as a weekly. Orchestra Bookings MORE than 100 well-known orchestra leaders are listed in the new brochure of Music Corporation of America, Chicago, booking agent for radio, hotel and ballroom engagements. Radio Cases Swamp Court of Appeals BRIEFS, statements of fact, and hearing records have been filed with the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia during the last two weeks in a number of pending cases. These were in addition to the half-dozen new appeals from the Federal Radio Commission's decision in the high power cases, and the litigation involving removal from the air of KGEF, Los Angeles, the Shuler station, which has been carried to the United States Supreme Court. On Dec. 4 Norman Baker withdrew his appeals from the Commission's action deleting his KTNT, Muscatine, for failure to serve public interest. The expense involved in carrying through the case, particularly the cost of printing a voluminous record, was said to have been the reason for his voluntary dismissal. In the General Order 102 case, involving the ordered deletion of WIBO and WPCC, Chicago, to make way for WJKS, Gary, Ind., the record was stipulated by all parties involved. Briefs will be filed during the next month, to be followed by oral arguments. In the WREN case, involving the Commission's denial of the application of that station to move from Lawrence, Kansas, to a location 22 miles from Lawrence, WDAF and WHB, Kansas City, both filed notices of their intention to intervene. The record in this case was filed also. Routine papers were filed in the case of Ozark Radio Corporation, headed by Rev. Lannie Stewart, appealed from the Commission's decision denying it a construction permit for a new 100-watt station at Carterville, Mo., to share with WBH, Joplin, Mo., and for modification of an existing experimental license. New Jersey Case THE COMMISSION asked for further time in which to file the record in the case involving the ordered deletion of WNJ, Newark, and WKBO, Jersey City, to make way for WHOM, Jersey City. The two former stations are operating under stay orders of the court. Oral arguments were heard by the Court on Dec. 7 in the case of KFQU, 100-watter of Holy City, Cal., denial renewal of license because of alleged violation of regulations and failure to serve public interest. The station is on the air under stay order. Fanney Neyman, assistant counsel, argued the case for the Commission, with Howard S. LeRoy as counsel for KFQU. Arguments in the Section 13 case appealed by WTMJ, Milwaukee, involving renewal of the licenses of WENR and WLS, Chicago, but actually taking into account renewal of the more than 1400 licenses held by Radio Corporation of America subsidiaries covering the entire radio range, have been set for Jan. 4. Each side in the case has been allowed one-hour and one-half. In the continental short-wave cases, embracing the allocation of frequencies in the 1500-6000 kc. band for domestic point-to-point telegraph services, the Commission has asked that oral arguments be designated after Jan. 1, 1932. Answer to the Commission's petition for clarification of the record, in which the Commission alleges that both RCA and Mackay Radio Telegraph have violated Section 17 of the Radio Act, and that Mackay has violated Section 12 involving alien ownership, was filed by RCA. Mackay requested oral arguments. A brief in support of the appeal of WOW, Omaha, for increase in time from six-sevenths to full time, was filed in the Court by B. M. Webster, Jr., and Paul M. Segal, counsel. The Commission denied the application on the ground that it would necessitate deletion of WCAJ, Lincoln, Neb., state university station, which it held was performing meritorious service. In so doing it reversed the recommendation of an examiner. Synchronization Feat of NBC to be Studied THE FATE of the NBC's extensive synchronization experiments, involving its two New York keys and WTIC, Hartford, and WBAL, Baltimore, will be decided by the Fedex-al Radio Commission during the next few weeks. Presumably because of its denial of the CBS application for a booster in Washington for WABC, New York, the Commission on Dec. 11 designated for hearing January 13 the applications for renewals of the WEAFWTIC and WJZ-WBAL operations. The Commission extended until Feb. 1 the existing synchronization licenses of the four stations. WBAL and WTIC share time on 1060 kc. By virtue of the wire-controlled synchronized operation, on alternate days, both stations are offorded full-time operation, with WTIC synchronizing on WEAF's frequency, and WBAL on the WJZ channel. The vote for hearing was four to one, Commissioner Lafount dissenting. It is understood the Commission desires to learn the technical results of the tests, since the NBC has not submitted to the Commission what the latter construes to be adequate technical progress reports. Considerable money has been expended by NBC for equipment, a large order only recently having been placed for additional apparatus. {December 15, 1931 • BROADCASTING New 50 -Cycle Order ALL BROADCASTING stations and radio equipment manufacturers are being notified by the Federal Radio Commission during the week of Dec. 14 concerning equipment requirements under the new 50 cycle plus-minus deviation regulation which goes into effect June 22, 1932. The Bureau of Standards has agreed to cooperate with the industry in making tests of apparatus to ascertain whether it measures up to specifications. The Commission said that a visual indicator is the only method considered practicable, and stations using equipment which has not been approved after June 22 will not be considered as operating in compliance with the regulation. Page 15