Broadcasting (Apr - Jun 1949)

Krueger, commercial manager if WTAG Worcester; Julie Blake, VMUE Manchester, and Nona irby, regional sales manager of VLAW Lawrence. Presiding at the sessions was Tay Clark, WBIS Bristol, Conn.. etiring AWB District 1 chairman. Managers of stations in the Bospn area and their wives were ;uests of the women at a cocktail • arty Friday afternoon. Saturday lorning, the delegates attended a roadcast of WEEI's Beantown Varieties. Attendance : Allen. Audrey K.. WNOC Norwich. :onn.; Bailey. Mildred. WCOP Boston: hartley. Etta. WORC Worcester. Mass.: Blake. Julie. WMUB Manchester, N. H.; ■Jornstein. Anita. WRIB Providence; Jroeg. Heloise Parker, WEEI Boston: Brown, Mae E., WMAS Springfield, /lass.; Burt. Eleanor. WEEI Boston: Sutler. Cecelia. WLAM Lewiston. Me.: :ampbell. Dorothy, WGAN Portland, >Ie.; Chase, Julie. WTAG Worcester, tfass.: Chase, Mildred. WHYN Holyoke. _"ass.: Casey. Wynne. WJOY Burlingbn, Vt.; Clark, Fay. WBIS Bristol. Jonn.; Connelly. Jeanne. WNEB Worcester, Mass. Doherty. Phyllis. WNAC Boston: Fuller, Dorothv. WBET Brockton. Mass.: 'letu, Ruth. WOTW Nashua, N. H.: .loulahan. Marie. WEEI Boston; Kopka. knn. WOTW Nashua. N. H.: McDowell. Jetty, WOTW Nashua. N. H.; Mc; veeney. Marion. WBKA Brockton, rfass.; Morgan. Louise. WNAC Boston; Melan. Bettv Jane. WHOB Gardner, lass.: Redin^ton. Ruth, WKNE Keene. V. H.; Rothwell. Alice H., WPOR Portland, Me.; Sherwood, Peg. WBKA Brockton. Mass.: Stackpole. Connie. FEI Boston: Staples. Marguerite. VTVL Waterville. Me.: Vincent, Madeine. WHOB Gardner. Mass.; Wood. Tlaire. WJAR Providence. R. I.; Kneeand. Eileen. WHAV Haverhill. Mass.: :Cirby. Nona. WLAW Lawrence. Mass. MICH. ASSN. Meeting Slated May 24 rIRST general meeting of the Michigan Assn. of Broadcasters vill be held tomorrow (May 24) it the Burdick Hotel, Kalamazoo. Morning sessions will feature alks by C. Bruce McConnell, ormer president of the Indiana ;tate Assn. of Broadcasters, and ■ienneth F. Schmidt, secretary of he Wisconsin Assn. of Broadcast's. Legislative roundtable disussion and general business meet'Hg are also slated before lunch, luncheon speaker will be Gerald .anek, public relations director >i Standard Oil. In the afternoon Srnest Jones, account executive :' McManus, John & Adam, is to ..peak on The National Trend in Advertising, followed by a roundable discussion. t vOMO Seattle received National Safety Council Award for leadership r.d support of safety efforts in 1948. It's Easy i to may a campaign in MILWAUKEE SCRIPPS HOWARD Must Choose In Cincinnati FCC last week reaffirmed its ruling that Scripps-Howard Radio Inc. must decide whether it wishes to pursue its application to switch WCPO Cincinnati from 1230 kc to 630 kc or its bids to purchase WVLK Versailles, Ky., and move it to Cincinnati. Scripps-Howard had petitioned for reconsideration of the earlier ruling on grounds that it had only the WCPO bid pending and that the WVLK requests, filed by WVLK itself, had never been formally accepted by FCC and were contingent upon decision in the 630 kc case at Cincinnati [Broadcasting, Dec. 13, 1948]. FCC denied this claim and ordered that Scripps-Howard must decide in 30 days which request it will pursue. Both the WCPO and WVLK bids will be dismissed if no choice is made, FCC said, and depending on which may be chosen, the alternative application will be dismissed. Also in the same proceeding, the FCC last week set aside a Motions Commissioner's action in March and denied request of Queen City Broadcasting Co. to amend its application for new station on 630 kc at Cincinnati so as to specify a new transmitter site. The action had been requested by WCPO and WLAP Lexington, Ky., which seeks switch to 630 kc from its present local assignment on 1450 kc. An original grant to WLAP for 630 kc had been set aside by FCC for further hearing last October [Broadcasting, Oct. 25, 1948]. In denying the Queen City request to amend, the Commission majority pointed out it had denied the request once before in November 1948 on grounds it had been filed too late. The majority further said the amendment was faulty and that further hearing would be required. Comr. Frieda B. Hennock dissented in this action and Chairman Wayne Coy and Comrs. Paul A. Walker and Robert F. Jones did not participate. Meanwhile last week the Commission announced memorandum opinions and orders in three other docket case proceedings. The FCC: Denied petition of KNOW Austin, Tex., seeking rehearing of new station grant to Bee Broadcasting Co., Beeville, Tex.; denied petition of WBNY Buffalo, N. Y., asking that FCC set aside its order dismissing WBNY's earlier petition for reconsideration of new station grant to Dunkirk Broadcasting Corp., Dunkirk, N. Y. ; reopened record on technical issues in proceeding on new station applications of Antilles Broadcasting System Inc., Rio Piedras, P. R., and Radio Americas Corp., San Juan. KNOW Claims KNOW, which claimed it would received substantial interference from the new Beeville station [Broadcasting, March 7], sought reconsideration on grounds of technical errors in FCC's finding. Comr. Rosel H. Hyde dissented from the majority's ruling to deny KNOW's petition on same issues he cited in his dissent in the grant. WBNY alleged it would receive objectionable interference from the new Dunkirk grant [Broadcasting, Dec. 20, 1948], but its petition was denied as not making sufficient technical showing according to FCC's rules and standards. The Commission opened the Puerto Rico case for further hearing because of changed conditions involving ownership since the close of the record and various resulting petitions. It also wishes to investigate possible interference to the proposed new Navy communications station at Sabana Seca, P. R., and to certain foreign stations. NATIONAL DST Staggers Bill in Congress CONGRESS would be authorized to establish daylight saving as standard time for all zones for any year, under provisions of a measure introduced in the House last Wednesday. Author of the bill, referred to House Interstate & Foreign Commerce, is Harley Staggers (D-W. Va.). Time could be advanced not earlier than the last Sunday of April and not later than the last Sunday of September, with advanced time to be considered the standard time in all zones for such a period. In addition, private business in respective zones would be required to observe time as established by Congress. Officers and employes of the United States also would fall into the time set by the act. 6*f* falf-Mi/Hon / HAROLD JOHNSON WWNY WMSA Owner Dies HAROLD B. JOHNSON, 68, owner of WWNY Watertown and WMSA Massena, N. Y., died May 17 following a heart attack. Mr. Johnson, also publisher of the Watertown Daily Times suffered the seizure at his Henderson Harbor home. Widely known as a champion of the dairy farmers, he was mentioned in 1935 as a Republican nominee for the governorship but lost out in the party balloting. He was vice president of the board of directors of St. Lawrence U. and president of the board of visitors of Oswego State Teachers College. Surviving are his wife, Jessie R. Parson Johnson, and one son, John B. In twelve counties along the southeast coast of Florida, 668,500* people have a net buying income of $778,561,000*. In the same twelve counties in 1948 . . . retail sales totaled $789,451,000*! When you buy WJOD . . . you buy solid coverage of this twelve-county market — coverage proved by results ... by BMB ... by mail response ... by engineering data! This was true yesterday — and it is today, too! 'Sales Management's 1949 Survey National Representatives GEORGE P. 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