Broadcasting (Apr - Jun 1949)

w 97,410 Radio Homes in the area served by KM LB — the station with more listeners than all other stations combined — IN N.E. LOUISIANA Right in Monroe, you can reach an audience with buying power comparable to Kansas City, Missouri. 17 La. parishes and 3 Ark. counties are within KMLB's milevolt contour. Sell it on KMLB ! KMLB MONROE. LOUISIANA •k TAYLOR-BORROFF & CO., Inc. National Representatives ir AMERICAN BROADCASTING CO. 5000 Watts Day • 1000 Watts Night'' .•JKSU.. ClA. PLAlffc WYAN. JTTE i EAVENWORTH CLINTON RAY LAFAYETTJ OHNSON DOUGLAS JEFFERSON CAS TCHISON BUCHANAN CALDWELL HO£ UINE DONIPHAN ANDREW DEKALJ LIVINGSTON OSAGE 5AV tut 111 Jhal & MONITEJ HOWARD BOONE ADAlf "SCHUYLER SCOTLAND WAPELF .PPANOOSE WAYNE DECATUR RINGGOL& AYIOR PAGE FREMONT OTOE FILLMOR fHAYER JEWELL REPUBLIC MITCHELL' •LOUD OTTAWA LINCOLN ELLSWORJ 1ICE McHHERSON RENO HAR\ Yessir! 213 booming counties lie inside the measured Vi mv. coverage of KCMO's powerful 50,000 watt beam! Add to this supercharged signal, programming that's carefully tuned to Mid-America listeners, and you have a formula for low cost per 1,000 coverage! KCMO Kansas City's Most Powerful Station 50,000 Watts Day. time — Non-Direct io no/ 10,000 Watts Nlght 810 Ice. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Bos/c ABC for Mid-America. National Representative: John E. Pearson Co. EL. O'HEARN, former sales # manager of KGBX Springfield, Mo., has joined Radio-Television Publicity Corp., Chicago, as district manager in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. E. W. (Bill) MALONE, sales manager, will open West Coast office for firm May 1. He will headquarter in San Jose, Calif. TELEWAYS RADIO PRODUCTIONS Inc., Hollywood, has announced production of Hymns of the World, transcribed series, featuring John Charles Thomas and The King's Men. Air Arts Inc. is preparing transcriptions. Series has been contracted for by ten stations. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF RADIO ARTISTS, Washington-Baltimore Local, has distributed a radio-television directory of those cities. Information includes stations, agencies, advertisers, station personnel, casting directory and several articles on the industry. Equipment HAROLD HEINDEL, chief engineer of Andrea Radio Corp., Long Island City, N. Y., has been appointed secretary of corporation. PAUL L. PALMERTON, comptroller of Western Electric Co.'s purchasing and traffic division, has been appointed acting director of public relations Mr. Palmerton Mr. Wright effective May 1. Mr. Palmerton succeends FRED B. WRIGHT as director of public relations when he relinquishes post under company's age retirement rule on May 31. ZENITH RADIO Corp., Chicago, has announced production of new "MicroCobra" adapter, and an automatic record changer for 7 inch discs. Adapter To Tour RCA Labs A DELEGATION of some 250 NBC New York employes will travel to Princeton, N. J., Wednesday afternoon, April 27, for a tour of the RCA Labs. RCA spokesmen stated that the trip is one of a series of "family parties" designed to familiarize employes of the various RCA divisions with overall activities of the company. They emphatically denied rumors that this tour would be the occasion for unveiling of a perfected system of color television, reporting that work on color TV was still very much in the laboratory stage. is designed for use with Cobraequipped record changers and plays either 33 1/3 or 45 rpm records in 7 inch size. EDWIN J. SHERWOOD has been named television promotional manager of Admiral Corp., Chicago, with responsibility for conducting TV sales training programs for distributors in cooperation with regional sales managers. He formerly supervised Admiral account at Cruttenden & Eger, Chicago, where he was Mr. Sherwood television director. WALTER E. PEEK Inc., Indianapolis, has been formed for manufacture of television antennas. New product of firm is Tele-Tape indoor antenna which may be concealed under rugs, on baseboards, etc., by means of adhesive backed metallized tape. AMERICAN NATIONAL DISTRIBUTING Inc., New York, has organized for distribution of Wagner-Nichols microdisc recorder in Metropolitan New York and northern New Jersey, Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo and Rochester. Officers of new firm are EDWIN SCHEUING, president of sales and promotion; SIDNEY FEITELBERG, vice president of management, and ROBERT E. SCHEUING, vice president of recording. Address of new firm is 119 W. 57th St., in care of Apex Recording Studios Inc., visual educational dealer for new recorder. ALLEN B. DuMONT Labs., Clifton N. J., has announced reduction in prices of its 12 and 12% inch cathoderay TV tubes to $54.75 and $57.50, respectively. WESTERN-CHICAGO Corp. has released seven-inch record changer that will play both RCA and Columbia discs. "Duo-Seven" includes velocity trip, three-second cycle change, controlled tone-arm performance and nonrecord slippage. FARNSWORTH Suits To Stop Sale Dismisset SUITS to stop the sale of Farns worth Television & Radio Corp. t< International Telephone & Tele graph Corp. failed last week whei New York Supreme Court Justice Bernard Botein dismissed stock holders' actions brought by Harr. Hecht and Robert Kenny, the latte former Attorney General of Cali fornia. Justice Botein saw no conspiracy to defraud in the proposed transfer He also asserted that there was n< hint Farnsworth officers or direc tors would derive personal profi from the sale. He said he was no' passing on whether or not the terms of the sale were adequate compensation, but noted thai Farnsworth had entered negotia tions with IT&T stripped of a gooc bargaining asset — a competing al ternative. He also noted that the company lost $10,000,000 in the lasl four years and was currently los ing $10,000 daily. In Fort Wayne, Ind., a meeting of stockholders to pass on the proposed transfer was postponed fot the second time to acquaint stock holders with the New York decision New date for the stockholders meeting is this Wednesday (Apri 27). ASDJ EXPANSION Seeks Broadcaster Affiliate: AMERICAN Society of Disc Jockeys, in its current efforts to expanc from a fraternal type organizatior into a full-scale trade association is seeking to obtain broadcasters participation as affiliate members Sam Picciani, executive secretary said the association would serve as a clearing house for information as to how the disc jockey could be usee to increase station revenue. ASDJ recently began an organizational campaign to set up regional administrations throughout the country. It has sought volunteers among disc jockeys to head regional set-ups and currently has 27 out of a proposed 75 areas organized, Mr. Picciani said. ASDJ's headquarters are in New York. 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