Broadcasting (Apr - Jun 1949)

if? Tl ^Teatute ok ike Week HtSf 5 Stafions Build Sales for You A NUMBER 1 HOUSTON HOOPER* "Colli*'* CoMcd 12:45 to 1:00 p. m. The products or service you're aimin' to tell the folks about down Houston way will hit a new high with the boost of this rootin', tootin' Collie's Corral segment. * 5.4 top Hooper (Monday thru Friday). Source: Winter-Spring report Dec. 1948-Apr. 1949. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FORJOE & COMPANY DAVE MORRIS GENERAL MANAGER 9th Floor Scanlan Bldg. HOUSTON 2, TEXAS Tracing route of the KSTP manhunt flight are (I to r) Pilot John Becker, Patrolman Senn, Mr. Ulmer, and Stanley E. Hubbard, KSTP president and general manager. RADIO won citations from law enforcement officials last week for its leading role in a five state manhunt following the killing of a Minneapolis policeman and violations of the Lindbergh Law by three St. Paul men. Culling the honors for the industry was KSTP Minneapolis-St. Paul, 50 kw NBC affiliate, which was directly credited for the surrender of one of the fugitives. Congratulations from the FBI, sheriffs offices, police and competing stations have been extended to the news departments of KSTP and KSTP-TV for coverage and aid rendered during the search. The fugitives, Arthur E. Bistrom, his brother Carl, and Allen C. Hartman, all of St. Paul, killed a policeman when interrupted in a burglary of a suburban National Food Co. store June 3. Fourth member of the gang, Gustav Johnson of St. Paul, was seized near the scene. As the three gunmen eluded police and headed toward North Dakota, KSTP's special events director, Roch Ulmer, picked up the Minneapolis inspector of detectives and flew him to the scene of the search. KSTP reports it also flew a reporter from the Minneapolis Star & Tribune to the scene and (Continued on page 86) On -fill -Accounts M Y FATHER was a railroad man and I guess I .fell in love with the express stops," said Lloyd (Bucky) Harris, vice president and international director for Grant Adv., as he recounted a radio career that has taken him the equivalent of twice around the world to most of the capitals of the Orient and Latin America. Born in Thayer, Miss., and educated in several states before entering the U. of Missouri, Mr. Harris had served in that time as newsboy, call boy on a railroad and member of a touring vaudeville team. After a sedentary interlude at the midwestern college, Mr. Harris muttered his apologies and got off his thesis to follow the main line back to Mississippi as a reporter on the Laurel Daily Leader. From there he moved to the Memphis Commercial Appeal to work on BUCKY the city desk, later joining the paper's radio station, WMC, as an announcer. He emerged from that operation as manager of the station. Striking north in 1928, he travelled to Chicago and WIBO, now WJJD. There, functioning out of the station's experimental television outlet, he put on one of the earliest known television shows on June 13, 1933. When the station left the air, Mr. Harris accepted the invitation of NBC in Chicago to join that network as a producer. His list of credits there include such shows as The National Farm and Home Hour, The Singing Lady, Club Matinee and the original Horace Heidt program. In 1941 he joined Grant Adv. to launch the international phase of his career as head of the agency's (Continued on page 86) VIGM Lancaster, Pa Established 1922 i WRAW Reading, p0. "loblhhed 1922 \NKB0 Horrisburg, Established 1922 Gaston pm BROADCASTING • Telecasting 1936 MPMStNTED BY ROBERT MEEKER ASSOCIATES New York * Chicago San Francisco •Los Angeles STEINMAN STATIONS June 13, 1949 • Page 15