Broadcasting (July - Dec 1942)

WJPA, Washington, Pa., has opened a remote studio and business office in Charleroi, Pa., where it will serve listeners of Charleroi, Monongahela, Donora, Monesson and surrounding towns. At present programs are broadcast daily from 11 to 11 :45 a.m. featuring local news and a telephone quiz. Station representative at the new studio is Bill Betler. CKCO, Ottawa, adding to its community service programs is now presenting the thrice-weekly variety program. The Man Behind The Gun. Program brings attention to work on the home front in war and allied industries as well as providing special entertainment for workers. The Town Crier is also being presented by CKCO giving announcements of community activities and coming events. Delivery of town criers of old days is retained. BROADWAY personalities will be guest stars, and TDan Healy, New York cafe m.e. known as "The Mayor of Broadway", will act as m.c. in a weekly series starting on WMCA, New York, Aug. 10, in a late night period. KTUC, Tucson, has started an exchange of talent plan for station talent to present shows at nearby camps and in return to transport soldier talent to KTUC studios to broadcast. The station also originates four Army camp programs for the Arizona Network. AS STATION goodwill and to promote the War Bond 10% Club campaign in that area, KVFD, Fort Dodge, la., on July 9 under the direction of L. A. Gifford, program manager, staged a three-hour jubilee show in the high school stadium with General Charles Stahl, head of Iowa Selective Service, and Bob Burlingame, WHO, Des Moines, news commentator, as speakers. WGL, Fort Wayne, Ind., is now carrying Hale America, physical fitness program which is jointly sponsored by four of the city's major war industries. Promotion is being carried on by the sponsors via house organs and exercise charts are being distributed to listeners and industry employes. Program is conducted by Harry Grabner, physical culturist. ANTI-AXIS ditty lampooning Hitler and entitled "Uncle Sam Will Schackle Schicklegruber" has been written by Verl Bratton, general manager of WREN, Lawrence, Kan., and is being offered free to all stations through the Broadcasters Victory Council. WHAT ORDINARY folks at home are doing to further the war drive will be dramatized on The Home Front, new half-hour program of WLS, Chicago, to be conducted by Dr. Preston Bradley, well known Chicago radio preacher. WFBL, Syracuse, following in the vein that is sweeping the nation, is organizing 10% clubs for the promotion of war savings as part of its Ten Percent For Freedom sustaining series. WCKY, Cincinnati, has launched a search for the Miss Greater Cincinnati to represent the metropolitan area in the "Miss America Health, Beauty and Talent Pageant" to be staged the week of Sept. 7 in Atlantic City. Cincinnati winner will be selected Aug. 17 at the local Albee Theater. WBML, Macon, Ga., through remote and studio "facilities is now broadcasting 12 programs per week from Cochrane Field. Camp Wheeler and Wellston Air Depot, Ga. Programs consist of pop music, band concerts and Army news. On July 12 Army Air Corps cadets and RAF cadets in training at Cochrane Field assembled in WBML to present / Hear America Singing carried over the full MBS network. FOR in the DETROIT AREA YOU CAN'T MISS WITH CKLW 5,000 Watts Day and Night MUTUAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM SIDEWALK NEWSROOM tended by a blonde model and decorated with modernistic murals by Otis Shepard, art director of. the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., Chicago, has been set up by WBBM, Chicago, between the two 'sections of the building and facing busy Michigan Avenue. Latest news bulletins are placed on the glass windows and inside behind the teletype machine are pictures of a dozen CBS and WBBM news commentators. STAFF MEMBERS of KMO, Tacoma. Wash., in addition to starting a payroll allotment plan for War Bond purchases some time ago has also started a salary deduction plan to be saved for income tax payments in anticipation of next year's taxes. WOWO-WGL, Fort Wayne, Ind., has started a new series, Music by Rosemary, featuring transcriptions and heard Monday through Friday at 6 :45 p.m. (CWT). Commentaries are by Rosemary Stanger who also prepares the scripts. TWO fifty-word spot announcements by KGHL. Billings, Mont., to the effect that the local Fox Theater was staging a "rubber matinee" on July 10 with admission to be an old tire or tube or two pounds of scrap, resulted in a take of approximately two and one-half tons of scrap rubber. WWRL, New York, has added a 45minute Lithuanian program, making a total of eight different foreign language shows on the station. WSNY, Schenectady, new 250-watt station owned and operated by Western Gateway Broadcasting Corp., is a new subscriber to the 24-hour special radio news wire from Press Assn., radio subsidiary of Associated Press. BRIG. GEN. ARNOLD KROGSTAD of the Army Air Force has been assigned command of the new aviation radio school now being set up in Chicago. The school will occupy the Stevens and Congress hotels with training capacity for 1.5,000 soldiers for 14-week courses. The first group of students will enter the school Sept. 3. Another ANSWERING the claim of Jack Merriman, 17-year-old announcer and control operator of KROY, Sacramento, as the youngest of his craft in the business [Broadcasting, July 20], WDRC-W65H, Hartford, states that one of its control operators, Jack Lennhoif is 16 and will be 17 November 5. Hartford's Jack says he is ready to open a letter-writing friendship with Sacramento's Jack and any other equally youthful radio men. WSBA Adding Personnel ADDITIONAL staff appointments for the new WSBA, York, Pa., regional which plans to go on the air late in August, have been announced. They include Willis Weaver, formerly of WORK, York, and the monitoring division of the FCC, as chief engineer; Woodrow G. Eberhart, previously assistant technical supervisor of the West Virginia Network and chief engineer of WCHS, Charleston, W. Va., director of engineering; Saralee Deane, from KMBC and WHB, Kansas City, in charge of women's news. British Firm Tests BOB MARTIN Ltd., Southport, England (dog medicines), on Sept. 22 starts a spot announcement campaign on CKWX, Vancouver, and CFRB, Toronto. The account is new to radio and the test campaign may be expanded. Agency is A. McKim Ltd., T'^v.^nto. CBS-50 KV/ Tbe Selling P'^^^'intheBuymg Page 48 • July 27, 1942 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising