Broadcasting (July - Dec 1942)

HOW'DEP: R. MEYERS, assistant promotion and assistant special events director of WGN, Cliicago. has been ajipointed radio director of the Chicago Office of Civilian Defense by Mayor Edward J. Kelly, succeeding Alan Scott, newscaster, who has joined the Navy. ART GILMORB, CBS Hollywood announcer, is narrator on the AYarner Bros, film short, "The Right Timing." KNOX MANNING, CBS Hollywood commentator, has been signed as narrator on the Warner Bros, film short, "South American Sports." GEORGIA GREY, formerly of AYKBN, Y'oungstown, has joined WKRC, Cincinnati, as director of women's features. JOHN ADEMY, recently of WCAO, Baltimore, where he was an announcer, is now a member of the athletics and recreation office at Kessler Field, Miss. JACK HENDERSON, salesman of KWK. St. Louis, is the father of a boy. ARTHUR J. FUXAN JR. has joined the mailroom staff of AVWL. New Orleiuis. Charles H. Blaise, his predecessor, has been added to the traffic department. JAMES MacMURRY, formerly with "\VMBR. .Jacksonville, Fla., has joined WPTF, Raleigh. GEORGE LEE MARKS, formerly of WKY, Oklahoma City, and WMAQ, Chicago, has joined WOAI, San Antonio, as program director. MAX CONDON, singer of KUOA, Siloam Springs, Ark., has won the National Cincinnati Opera auditions and will work with the Cincinnati Opera Assn. this summer. Bob McMasters, new to radio, has ;oin('d KUOA's announcing staff. ROBERTA DRAPER and Dick Glaser, recent graduates of Ohio Wesleyan U, are doing announcing and continuity writing at WMRN, Marion, Ohio. Bob Gross from Ursinus U, also has joined the announcing staff and is writnig continuity. NAT BERLIN, formerly head of continuity at WNEW, New York, is now a private in the Army Air Forces, assigned to the public relations office at Turner Field, Albany, Ga. He is currently producing several programs over local stations. DALE TYPER, formerly Washington and New York newspaperman and now a radio commentator, and the former Mrs. Eddie Peabody, of Riverside, Cal., divorced wife of the banjo player, were married in Yuma, June 21. I'.RICE DISQUE Jr., a writer for Mr. District Attorney on NBC and Gang Buster.t on BLUE, has been appointed NBC script editor, by C. L. Menser, manager of the NBC program department. Disque will work under Lewis H. Titterton, manager of th( script department. BIT,L WOOD, formerly announcer of KOO, San Francisco, has been commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy. RAY BUFFUM. Hollywood writerproducer, has joined KPO, San Francisco. BUCK HINSMAN, studio manager of tlie Starkville studio of WCBI, Columbus, Miss., has been promoted to production manager. Bert Craig, Millsaps College student, and Bill Shackleford, of Columbus, have joined the announcing staff for the summer. Charlie Holt. WCBI announcer, has '(•signed to join WCOV, Montgomery, Ala. firing is far more effective Truer words could never be said about a rich industrial market like Central New England. WTAG holds a two to one edge over any radio station heard in Central New England. In fact the WTAG audience regularly exceeds that of all other stations according to every independent survey. men you day rime 9«y An Audience NBC BASIC RED NETWORK EDWARD RETRY & COMPANY NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE Owned and operated by The Worcester Telegram-Gazette Porter in Navy WILLIAM A. PORTER, since 1930 a Washington attorney specializing in radio, reported July 1 for active duty in the Navy as a senior lieutenant. He goes to the Naval Training School at Harvard for a sixweek training course and is assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics. Lt. Porter has closed his lawoffices for the duration. Bef ore establishing his own offices, he was a partner in the Littlepage firm. Porter BOB SHANNON, newscaster of WHBY, Appleton, Wis., is to join the Marine Corps in August. AUSTIN GRANT, newscaster of WWJ, Detroit, is the father of a recently-born baby girl. CLAYTON G. GOING, formerly reporter of the Poughkeepsie 'New Yorker, has joined WGEA and WGEO, GE shortwave stations in Schenectady, as news editor and English announcer. GEORGINA CHASE, formerly of CKY, Winnipeg, public relations department, was married recently to John C. Edick in Winnipeg. SGT. RONALD DEACON, former CKX, Brandon, Man., announcer, recently married Mary Armstrong. RAY STOUGH formerly program director of KVOX, Moorhead, Minn., has joined the merchant marine and is currently stationed at Gallup Island. Boston. John H^nkes, formerly of KGDE, Fergus Falls, Minn., replaces Stough. CHARLES NILES, formerly announcer of KGDE. Fergus Falls, Minn., has joined KVOX, Moorhead, Minn. (JENE GRAVES formerly of WGY, Schenectady, has joined the announcing staff of the new WSNY, Schenectady. DAN CUBBERLY, KOY, Phoenix, Droducer of the six-weekly Love Story Time, was recently transferred to WLS, Chicago. Jack Wages, actorannouncer, has taken over production of that program, with Frank W«ltmer, KOY continuity editor, assigned to aniaounce. :\IARYALICE MOYNIHAN, of NBC Hollywood purchasing department, resigned on June 15. Replacing her is Max Naumann. AL HENRY, formerly with NBC in New York, joins WPEN, Philadelphia, as summer relief announcer. REGINALD HARDEN has joined the iinnouncing staff of WIS, Columbia, S. C. WILLIAM N. ROBSON, CBS director and producer, now directing theCBS Report to the Nation series, on .Tune 27 married June Wilkins, daughter of Paul Wilkins, Hollywood agent. MARVIN S T R O H, operator of CHBX, Peterborough, Ont., has transferred to the announcing staff of CKVD, Val D'Or, Que. JIM CARROLL, formerly of KAVYO, Sheridan, Wyo., has joined KGGM, Albuquerque, N. M. BILL PARMALEE has been appointed head of the KHJ, Hollywood, script department. He succeeds Don Chapman who resigned to devote time to freelance acting. Chapman is currently recuperating from an appendicitis operation. FREDERICK HEIDER of the NBC script department, on July 11 resigns to become a radio writer for the Red Cross in Washington. E. TOWNSEND SWALM, formerly on the editorial staff of Radio Daily^ has enlisted in the Army under the volunteer Officer Candidate plan. CHARLES VICTOR, Chicago announcer, having completed a role in the RKO film, "Sweet and Hot", has reported for Army duty in that ciity. ROBERT HARTMAN, continuity writer of CBS-Chicago, has been apiwinted continuity editor of WBBM, Chicago. TOMMY BARTLETT, announcer of WBBM, Chicago, on July 2 was sworu in the Army Air Force on Salute to Victory, daily recruiting program ou WBBiNI. Hughes for Swing JOHN B. HUGHES, MBS commentator, will take over the sustaining period occupied by Raymond Gram Swing, MBS foreign analyst, Saturday, 10-10:15 p.m., starting July 11. Hughes is sponsored by Anacin Co., Jersey City, on Tuesday and Wednesday at that time, while Swing is heard Monday and Thursday for General Cigar Co., New York, under a recently renewed 52-week contract, which carries a 13-week cancellation clause. Swing joins NBC in September, and no plans have been announced in regard to his MBS commitments. In the meantime, he has also vacated his sustaining news period Sunday, 10 p.m. TH13 Quig Kids will be cast in a full length movie by Paramount to start production shortly. The story has not been selected, but when production starts the program will move from Chicago to Hollywood while the picture is being made, aecoi-ding to Lou Cowan, originator of the show. A big, concentrated selling job at surprisingly low rates Affiliated in management with WJR, Detroit, WGAR. Cleveland. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE: PAUL H. RAYMER CO. WTAG WORCESTER Page 52 • July 6, 1942 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising