Broadcasting (Jan - Mar 1949)

For Sale (Cont'd) For Sale: RCA 250 watt transmitter. Modified from lOOE to 250E with RCA conversion kit. Used as an auxiliary on 620 kc. One crystal oven with provision for another. Excellent condition. $900.00. Chief Engineer, WAGE, Inc., Syracuse, N. Y. TOWER ! SPECIAL PRICE j IMMEDIATE DELIVERY \ FM or TV Tubular Steel Triangular Guyed Many Now in Use Write Wire Phone Houston Radio Supply Co., Inc. Clay @ LaBranch Houston, Texas Phone C-9009 Miscellaneous RADIO BROADCAST STATIONS BUYERS! SELLERS! Litt With U* Prompt Confidential Sarvic* NATIONAL RADIO STATION BROKERS 5051 Sunsat Blvd., Normandy 7848 Los Angeles 27, California REGIONAL ; MANAGERS (2) j Fastest growing National Organization, whose promotional campaigns are familiar and I ENDORSED BY MORE I THAN 300 STATIONS COAST TO COAST, can use , successful DISTRICT SALES I MANAGERS. I Thorough knowledge of coI sponsored sales methods, plus ability to hire and train salesmen, ESSENTIAL! I To qualified producers, after brief training period (without loss of revenue), can compare ! earnings of our PRESENT I MANAGERS from $7500 to $10,000 commission yearly 1 j All replies strictly confidential. Box 905, Broadcasting ^ Are you interested in new accounts? 0 \$ Salted and seasoned sales staff will i 0 develop accounts for your station on f 0 co-sponsored feature programs. In 0 0 quirief iuHcited immediate action. 0 0 IVliJliiiil Rudio Fealurrs 0 J 211 N. Allen Si. J 0 Albiiny N. Y. 0 CHARITY DRIVE Salvation Army Uses TV THE POWER of television as a fund-raising medium was put to test for the first time Jan. 12, when the Salvation Army launched its 1949 Annual Maintenance Appeal in Greater New York with the cooperation of WJZ-TV New York, ABC's key eastern outlet. The $1.1 million drive's inaugural * On All Accounts (Continued from page 10) ered Wendell Willkie's southern campaign and accompanied Gov. Dewey to Chicago for the 1944 convention. After that, handsome prematurely grey-haired Les Harris switched from special events to production vdth CBS in New York. He served in that department on such shows as the Frank Sinatra program, Kate Smith Show, Burns & Allen and others. He also directed the Morton Gould Cresta Blanca Carnival in a free lance capacity. Joining Benton & Bowles, Mr. Harris directed and produced Portia Faces Life, Glamor Manor, The Prudential Family Hour, Topper, When a Girl Marries, Rosemary, and Perry Mason. Rising to • the status of one of the outstanding producers in the country, Mr. Harris last Nov. 15 was selected by the agency as head of its radio operations. In his new capacity he supervises all the above shows. Mr. Harris has also produced two television programs, Try and Do It and Meet The Press. The Harris' — she is the former Rosemary Cox — have been married for eight years. They have two children Christopher, 5, and Leslie, 18 months. The family live in their own home in Old Brookville, L. I., when they also own a boarding stable for race horses and about 52 acres of pasture. Mr. Harris meeting was held in the Rainbow Room atop New York's RCA Bldg. Five ABC television cameras were used to pick up every phase of the meeting. Speakers included New York's Police Commissioner Arthur W. Wallandor; Commissioner Donald McMillan, territorial Salvation Army commander; Ivor Kenway, ABC vice president, and Nick Kenny, columnist and song writer. * * lists horse back riding as his only hobby, but intimates confide that the versatile Mr. Harris has been known to knock out a television set or two in his spare time. May Use Radio PETER F. HAGAN, recently elected chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Assn., said the organization is considering a radio series to dramatize its newly established Lawyers Reference Service. In its first seven months the service represented 1,700 clients who otherwise would have been unable to pay for legal service, Mr. Hagan said. U. OF CHICAGO, TULSA Work With NBC Show THE U. OF CHICAGO and the U. of Tulsa have joined the NBC University of the Air in development of home study courses. Other institutions of higher learning already associated with NBC in the project are the U. of Southern California, U. of Louisville and Washington State College. The U. of Chicago will offer courses in world politics and economics, using its Round Table broadcasts on NBC (Sundays, 12:30 p.m. CST) as their core, said Sterling W. Fisher, manager of the network's public affairs and education department. Participation will involve listening to selected Round Table broadcasts, reading significant books and articles, studying selected problems, writing reports and receiving criticism from U. of Chicago instructors, he explained. Certificates will be awarded on completion of the course. At the U. of Tulsa a home study course in Anglo-American literature, with the NBC University Theater as its core, will start Feb. 5. Study guides are available through the university, having been prepared by Dean E. H. Criswell of its college of arts and sciences. Thanks, Mr. Autry GENE AUTRY, who did his first work as a radio artist at KVOO Tulsa, got a thankyou letter recently from station's vice president and general manager, William B. Way. Commenting that several artists who have made the big-time started their careers at KVOO, Mr. Way told Mr. Autry that "through the years you have never failed to mention KVOO in any article concerning your first days in radio." The letter was signed by Mr. Way and Gustav Brandborg, KVOO commercial manager. Southwest Network Station Located in one of the southwest's most healthful climates, this fulltime network outlet covers a trading area of approximately 500,000 persons. Physical equipment is above average and this station has favorably established itself as an important factor in this very attractive market. Priced for quick action at $75,000.00. CONTACT THE NEAREST OFFICE OF THE EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVES BLACKBURN-HAMILTON COMPANY, INC. WASHINGTON, D. C. James W. Blackburn Washington Bldg. Sterling 4341-2 MEDIA BROKERS DALLAS Philip D. Jackson Tower Petroleum Bldg. Central 1177 SAN FRANCISCO Ray V. Hamilton Russ Bldg. Exbrook 2-5672 DURING WJZ-TV telecast, Clark Agnew (r), noted illustrator of Lennen & Mitchell art department, showed the poster he created for Salvation Army fund drive to Comr. Donald McMillan (I) of the Salvation Army and Ray Vir Den, L & M president, who is serving as 19U9 campaign chairman. BROADCASTING • Telecasting January 31, 1949 • Page 65'