Broadcasting (July - Dec 1941)

50,000 WATTS LOS ANGELES CBS dealers' first choice in tlie nation's fourth market vAsk any Radio Sales o for more information about KNX, o„c .,f ilir vMiinen CBS: 50.000 -,is. WH^, AFRA RENEW; OTHERS APPROVED WHN, New York, has signed a renewal contract with the American Federation of Radio Artists, covering staff artists and announcI ers employed at the station. AFRA announced also that contracts covering talent at WHK-WCLE, Cleveland; WOOD-WASH, Grand Rapids, and KRLD, Dallas, have been completed and ratified by the AFRA board. The union's field representatives, Vic Carter and Hyman Faine, are in Miami and Washington, D. C, respectively. There has been no activity on the television front, Mrs. Emily Holt, national executive secretary of AFRA, stated, adding that AFRA sees no need for haste in organizing this new entertainment field as long as the television broadcasters —NBC and CBS in New Yorkare supporting the medium at their own expense. Actors Equity Assn., however, has expressed the counter theory mfi that if contracts are secured now and the telecasters recognize the rights of the talent unions to establish standards, it will be easier for the unions to revise those standards in line with the new industry's economic advancement than it would be if the television broadcasters set their own standards Devaney to Be Candidate For U. S. Senatorship JOHN P. DEVANEY, former chief justice of the Minnesota State Supreme Court and controlling stockholder in WLOL, Minneapolis, regional outlet authorized in January, 1940, announced at the convention of Young Democrats of Minnesota on Sept. 13 that he intends to seek the nomination for U. S. Senator from that State. He would run against Joseph Ball, Republican incumbent whom Gov. Harold Stassen appointed last year to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Lundeen, FarmerLaborite. Senator Ball is a supporter of the Administration's foreign policy, and Judge Devaney announced he would also support Roosevelt policies. Senator Ball is expected to have the support of Wendell Willkie as well as Gov. Stassen, and Administration support for Judge Devaney is foreseen. The Minnesota primaries are next March. Ju-Jitsu EVEN hillbillies and policemen sometimes get fooled. Louis Bono, WWL's No. 1 hillbilly and a member of the New Orleans police department, was showing Howard Summerville, manager of the station, what a ju-jitsu expert he was by demonstrating his best, unbreakable hold on him. Imagine Hillbilly-Officer Bono's surprise when his extra-special grip didn't work and he went flying over Mr. Summerville's head. HillbillyOfficer Bono then discovered that Manager Summerville used to be an amateur wrestler. Secret German Station Is Uncovered in Mexico DISCOVERY of a clandestine Nazi radio station in Mexico, near Las Palmas in the State of Chiapas was reported last week by the newspaper, Excelsior. According to the paper the station, with both long and shortwave facilities, has been using the call letters XAGX. The newspaper also disclosed that the Communications Ministry and the Senate had been informed of the discovery. Chiapas, where the station is located, has long been rumored as a center of Nazi activity due to the large number of German residents and, stated the Excelsior, XAGX had been spreading Nazi propaganda in Southeast Mexico and Central America. It was reported unofficially in Washington that the monitoring staff of the FCC had drawn beams on the Mexican station and had been satisfied it was a Nazi propaganda agency. DEEP IN THE NIGHT Fast Growing Audience Noted For Early Hours A TEST of what is believed to be a rapidly growing audience in the early morning hours was started in the second week of September when CKLW, Windsor-Detroit, rebroadcast its 7 p.m. Chrysler sponsored program at 3 a.m. as part of its Dawn Patrol show. Manager J. E. Campeau decided to undertake the experiment when telephone calls for the Dawn Patrol began to increase in unusual proportions. This he attributed to the thousands of added defense workers changing shifts in factories who were using their home radios as well as car radios to and from work. The Chrysler show was chosen for the test because it is a quarterhour show with a comedy format, somewhat similar to the Dawn Patrol pattern. Listeners have been told the object of the rebroadcast and a strong bid for mail and phone response is being made. "You see, we listen regularly to the ten dally newscasts on WFDF Flint Michigan. That's how we knew we'd have you for dinner." New California Corporation INCORPORATION papers have been filed with the Secretary of State at Sacramento, Cal.. by the Palo Alto Radio Station Inc., $50,000 radio broadcastins company of Santa Clara County. Albert A. Avelrod of San Francisco heads the list of directoi-s. Nets Grant Permissio To Record Defense Tal NETWORK permission goverri delayed broadcasting of speeches public officials and programs in i interest of national defense h been obtained by John Shepard : Yankee network president a r chairman of the NAB National L fense Committee. The delay broadcasts are permitted when t cilities are not available for li broadcasts. CBS affiliates have blanket a thority, Mr. Shepard was told 1 H. V. Akerberg, CBS station rel tions vice-president, to transcri and repeat such programs witho securing special permission. William S. Hedges, stations vie president of NBC, said that ne work did not desire to give blank permission but would "bend eve effort to give prompt answers wh( their affiliates request permissi< on any specific program" of tl above type. MBS affiliates, accoi' ing to Fred Weber, general mai ager, may record and repeat pr grams without securing permissio U. S Schedules Mailed WEEKLY mailings of U. S. shor wave radio program schedules fc Latin America have been starte by the Office of the Coordinator c Inter-American Affairs, headed bi Nelson Rockefeller, according to Sept. 16 announcement. The fir? mailing, including 40,000 program for the Oct. 12 week, went out las. week. Printed in three languagesj Spanish, Portuguese and Englishthe schedules are designed to supi ply detailed information to Lati American listeners on all short wave programs broadcast from thi country to the other American re publics. MBS Anniversary MBS, completing its seventh yea: of operations on Oct. 2, started ii 1934 as a four-station hook-u] comprising WOR, Newark, WLW Cincinnati, WGN, Chicago, an( WXYZ, Detroit, and today include: 173 affiliates in the United States Canada and Hawaii. A gala anni versary broadcast is planned fo Oct. 2, which will also serve as £^ welcome salute to WGR, Buffalo» WCAE, Pittsburgh, and WFBR, Baltimore, which are to join MBk as basic fulltime outlets during the' preceding week. EVERSHARP Inc., Chicago, ha' been charged in a Federal Tradi Commission complaint with misrep resentation of tae guarantee on Ever shai-p Repeating Pencils in advertis ing in radio and other media, accord ing to an FTC announcement lasi Friday. Announcer WANTED Give qualifications and salary expected. IfTCM NBC-B.&R. lilOlfl El Paso, Tex. Page 54 • September 22, 1941 Broadcast Advertising • BROADCASTING