Broadcasting (Jan - Mar 1949)

to AT WDRC Hartford, Conn., dreams ^% are becoming realities. Each Saturday at 1:15 p.m. station ersonnel and invited guests will put n their "dream shows" — 15 minutes lof anything they want to put on the lair. Guests will include newspaper jcolumnists and prominent personages fwho will be given a chance to put on their idea of a "dream" radio show. Salute to Citizens A SALUTE to prominent pioneer citizens of Warren, Ohio, is object of WRRN Warren's newest program, : Warren's Appreciation Hour. The life • and history of these prominent citi'■ zens is told by someone who has known , them throughout their years of achievement. 'Vocational Guidance' WKBG North Wilkesboro, N. C., is cooperating with local Kiwanis Club in ' presenting its new program, Vocational Guidance. During 30-minute program a group of high school students and a local professional man meet for roundtable discussion on careers. The speak ' er brings out the "how" and "why" of his chosen career, and the cost and time involved in preparing for it, plus advantages which it offers. Following this 10-minute presentation students ■ take over and a question period follows. Program is aired in classrooms of local high schools, 'so that those not participating for the week may take advantage of each career discussion. Mrs. Lockerman Disc Show on Tv NEW YEAR brought a new disc show to WSB-TV Atlanta. Reel Roundup, uses typical disc jockey format with short musical film subjects, and WSB disc m.c, „Bob Watson injects bits of information concerning the recording artists. Quarter-hour show is telecast each Saturday night. Sex Education Series 'WGAR Cleveland, in conjunction with Cleveland Welfare Federation, has launched new six week series on sex ^education. Titled Sex Guidance for Youth, series has been prepared by health educators and social workers. Programs present well known Cleve■landers in discussions of following |opics: "Giving Your Baby a Good Start; The First Six Years; Questions Children Ask and Don't Ask; Those Teen Age Years; Dating Do's and Don'ts, and What is Love?" On the Feminine Side DORIS LOCKERMAN, associate editor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, and author of a daily column in that paper, is now columnist of the air. She is heard Mon.-Fri. on WCON Atlanta on her own program, Let's Hear Now. Show features comments and news items from a woman's viewpoint on news of interest to women. WCON is owned and operated by the Constitution. 'Bring Home the Bacon' RESIDENTS of Newark, N. J. and surrounding communities are invited to Bring Home the Bacon. New quiz show on WNJR Newark is aired direct from the Tantleff Beef Co., in Newark, sponsor of program. Contestants vie for prizes with "meat in it" — hams, steaks, a leg of lamb, bacon, chickens and sausages, plus eggs and butter. If they fail to answer a question correctly they still win — each contestant gets a pound of bacon. WNJR airs the show each Tuesday at 12:05 p.m. Synagogue Services REGULAR Friday night broadcasts of Jewish Sabbath Eve services direcu from Herzl Congregation in Seattle have been launched by KING Seattle. Services are aired by transcription at 10 p.m. and include sermon of Rabbi Samuel Penner, who stated that "In these broadcasts, we seek to lift the veil of secrecy which too frequently surrounds the Synagogue and to spread knowledge about Judaism — its religion, literature, ethics and folklore." Operation— TV DURING the seminar held in Buffalo for 6,200 urologists WBEN-TV Buffalo televised operations for their benefit. Operations were performed at J. McCOLLISTER Regignol Representatives 2^660 BEUAGIO^ lOS ANGEIES . BR 0470i Shows with a Hollywood Vferitage ★ Member N-A-B Millard Filmore hospital 2% miles from the hotel and carried over shortwave radio link to WBEN-TV and via coaxial cable from station's control room to the hotel. Seven operations were telecast during the seminar. What Do They Know? NEWEST program on KOMO Seattle, is Quizdown — a straight-out contest of knowledge. Two students from the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, with one alternate from each grade, compete against youngsters of same level from another local school. Questions have been prepared which "require thought by the student while at the microphone, and not a simple recitation of isolated facts." Half-hour quiz is conducted each Saturday at 11 a.m., in the auditorium of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, sponsor of the show, and is transcribed for broadcast on KOMO at 4:30 p.m. the same day. Special feature of the half-way "intermission" on each show is introduction of a special studio guest. Prizes are awarded to schools and students submitting questions, and program participants receive medals. 'Mid-America Sings' NEWEST program on KCMO Kansas City, Mo., is Mid-America Sings. Each Sunday half-hour program is broadcast direct from colleges and universities in "Mid-America," and features choral groups from one of these schools. Appeal for All SLANTED toward youngsters, teenagers, and news-loving adults is new show on WMTR Morristown, N. J. Program is divided into three segments— a half-hour "Kiddiedisc" show, featuring records and chatter for moppets— a five minute newscast — and a teen-age disc show. Program is sponsored by Morristown branch of Oppenheim-Collins, New York department store. During last portion of program, a junior miss disc jockey, selected from a high school in the area by votes of students who must ballot in the Oppenheim-Collins store, presides. Top Comedians MILTON BERLE, star of NBC television and ABC radio programs, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, NBC's new comedy team, have been honored by a readers' poll conducted by Comedy World magazine. Poll results, announced by National Laugh Foundation, rate Mr. Berle "Comedian of the Year" and the Martin-Lewis team "New Comedy Stars of the Year." Mr. Berle emcees the video Texaco Stur Theatre, Tuesdays, 8-9 p.m., NBC-TV and the ABC radio show of the same name. Both shows are sponsored by The Texas Co., New York, through Kudney Agency, New York. KWK Power Boost KWK St. Louis increased its nighttime operating power from 1 kw to 5 kw Jan. 6, making use of two new directional antennae at transmitter. To promote new signal strength, station has adopted slogan "KWK, Your Signal for Good Listening," according to Robert T. Convey, president and general manager. THE m OF wmimi on special "DJ" platters* FREDDY MARTIN Once in Love With Amy and You Was DJ-626 * * * * * Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes and The Man on the Carrousel DJ-627 * * * * * ERSKINE HAWKINS Bewildered and Corn Bread DJ-628 * * ★ * * Lavender Blue and FREDDY MARTIN So Dear To My Heart (Both from Disney's "So Dear to My Heart") DJ-629 ***** *"0d" disks couple the cream of the RCA Victor hits for your convenience! )5RO ADC ASTING • Telecasting January 17. 1949 • Page 65