Broadcasting (Jul - Dec 1944)

These Two Stations Provide the Only Full Coverage of This Rich Pennsylvania Area ,v o Armagh » •if Ebensburg I I I \ Bellwood* • Juniata WFBG\ fr. • Gaimzin '^ALTOONA / • Cresson , ^ Holtidaysburg • % Wlndber ^ ^ Holtidaysburg • ^ \ y ^ Roaring Spring ^ BOTH STATIONS ARE SOLD IN COMBINATION RATE fOR NETWORK AND SPOT National Representatives HEADLEY-REED COMPANY New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, San Francisco j FCC Denies Blue WAIT-WGES SWAP Pleas for KECA APPROVED BY FCC Sets Aside Tulare, Cal. Grant Pending Futher Probe PETITION of the Blue Network Co. for a grant without hearing of its aplication to change frequency of KECA Los Angeles from 709 to 770 kc and increase power from 5 to 50 kw was denied last Tuesday by the FCC [Broadcasting, Dec 4]. At the same time the Commission denied Blue's petition to consolidate its hearing with that of KOB Albuquerque for modification of construction permit and license to cover permit as modified to change frequency from 1180 to 770 kc and with a hearing of KXA Seattle on application for modification of license to change hours of operation from limited to WJZ to unlimited on 700 kc. KOB's application is designated for hearing. Motion of KXA for leave to amend application was granted Wednesday by motions of Commissioner Wakefield Jan. 2, and the application, as amended, was removed from the hearing docket. An alternative request of the Blue to intervene in the KOB and KXA applications also was denied. Proposed KECA move would reduce the status of the 700 kc channel from a I-A (clear at night) to a I-B (duplicated) frequency with both KECA and WJZ using 50 kw. Operation of KECA on 770 kc with 50 kw would preclude operation of KOB, which has been broadcasting under a special service authorization on 770 kc and prior to that on 1030 kc with a special service authorization. Denials of the Blue's petitions mean that the application to change frequency from 790 to 770 kc, increase power, install new transmitter with directional antennas for day and night use, and move transmitter and studios still is pending. In another action Tuesday the Commission set aside its grant of Dec. 5 to Herman Anderson, farmer and businessman, for a new station at Tulare, Cal., to operate on 1240 kc with 250 w unlimited [Broadcasting, Dec. 11]. Mr. Anderson and Robert Franklin, associated with KTKC Visalia, Cal., originally filed the application but Mr. Anderson filed an amended petition, requesting withdrawal of Mr. Franklin as a party to the application. In announcing its recision, the FCC said it set aside the grant "pending further examination of the application and related matters". Sub For Murrow EDWARD R. MURROW'S Sunday broadcasts for American Oil Co. on CBS for the last three weeks of December are being taken over by CBS correspondents from London. Charles Collingwood speaks Dec. 24 and Larry Lesueur Dec. 31. Eric Sevareid handled last Sunday's program. Mr. Murrow is in this country for a brief visit. AN EXCHANGE of interests whereby the Gene T. Dyer family retains WAIT Chicago and his brother John A. Dyer and his associates become owners of WGES Chicago was approved by the FCC last week under its duopoly regulation. Sec. 3.35. Consideration is $100,000 for the assets of WAIT and a similar amount for the assets of WGES, in each instance including $15,000 cash working capital [Broadcasting, July 10]. New ownership is as follows: WAIT— Gene T. Dyer, 19%; Evelyn M. Dyer, 35%; Gene T. Dyer Jr., 24%; Adele Moulds, 10%; Louis E. Moulds, 6%; Grace V. McNeill, 6%. WGES— John A. Dyer, 21%; Vivian I. Christoph, 34%; Elizabeth M. Hinzman, 30%; F. A. Ringwald, 10%: William F. Moss, 5%. Sale of WSBC by the Dyer in terests for $100,000 to the owners of the J. Miller Adv. Agency, Chicago, also because of the duopoly regulation, was approved by the FCC Sept. 26 [Broadcasting, Oct. 2]. In another duopoly action motions Commissioner Ray C. Wakefield last Wednesday continued hearing from Dec. 18 to Feb. 29 the application of WEEU Reading, Pa. for renewal of license. Applicatior for transfer of WEEU by Berks Broadcasting Co., Reading, tc George J. Feinberg, Joseph M Nassau and Milton J. Hinleir (owner of KDRO Sedalia, Mo.) foi $210,000 is pending before the Commission. WOV Capital Office WOV New York will open £ Washington bureau Jan. 1 wit! Tom Morgan, WOV commentator as chief. Headquarters will be ir the Mayflower Hotel. According tc present plans, Mr. Morgan wil spend Tuesdays in Washington covering the President's press con ference and the Senate, returning to New York to give his regulai news broadcasts, which vdll be ad vanced from its present spot t( 10:05-10:15 p.m. A TOTAL of 287% hours during tht first nine months of 1944 were devotee I to public service programs by WLA^ i Cincinnati. All originated by the sta I tion. the programs included problemM of health, education, war activities an< j rationing. i WJL8 BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA Expands its markett,. * Daytime coverage increases 1,390 .square miles... with 110,741 additional potential listeners (FCC survey). ^ , S60 now at on the dial CBS T CBS NETWORK Represented by Burn -Smith Page 70 » December 18. 1944 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertisin,