Broadcasting (Jan - Mar 1949)

Extension Granted KCOM Sioux City, Iowa — Granted exffiljtension of time within which Dietrick Oirks, transferee-grantee, must disl:\ pose of his 50% interest in KTRI be,. I fore effecting Commission's grant of consent to his acquisition of control of KCOM. Hearing Designated KOA Denver, Col.— Designated for hearing application to replace vertical ant. of KOA and mount FM ant. on AM tower, and made WHDH Boston, WJW Cleveland, WXKW Albany, WTNB Birmingham, WRUF Gainesville, Fla., WKBZ Muskegon and WEEU Reading parties to proceeding. Roanoke Bcstg. Co., Roanoke, Ala. — Designated for hearing application for hew station 930 kc 250 w D. ; AM— 1460 kc Union-Carolina Bcstg. Co., Union, S. C— Granted CP new station 1460 kc 1 kw unl. DA-N; engineering cond.; estimated cost: $38,178. AM— 1300 kc I Aiken-Augusta Bcstg. Co. Inc., Aiken, S. C— Granted CP new station 1300 kc 1 kw D; engineering cond.; estimated cost $13,575 exclusive of land and buildings. Hearing Designated Robstown Bcstg. Co., Robstown, Tex. —Designated for hearing application for new station 1480 kc 1 kw D and made Bee Bcstg. Co., Beeville, Tex., party to proceeding. AM— 1260 kc ■ Bob Jones U. Inc., Greenville, S. C. —Granted CP new station 1260 kc 1 kw D; engineering cond.; estimated cost $21,500. Modification of CP WNAG Grenada, Miss.— Granted mod. CP to change from 1490 to 1400 kc, 250 w unl.; engineering cond. WDAV Auburn, Me.— Granted mod. CP make changes in vertical ant., change trans, location and specify studio location at Lewiston, Me.; engineering cond.; granted extension of completion date. March 24 Applications . . . ACCEPTED FOR FILING AM— iwe kc WJBK Detroit— CP change from 1490 kc 250 w unl. to 1500 kc 10 kw-N 25 kw-D unl. DA-DN AMENDED to change name from Detroit Bcstg. Co. to The Fort Industry Co. Ave* Bid KGFN Grass Valley, Calif.— Application to purchase KGFN filed by H. Neil Black under Avco rule. Assignment of License KYOR San Diego, Calif .—Assignment of license from Albert E. Furlow, Frank G. Forward, Roy A. Ledford Fred H. Rohr and Mary W. Hetzler d/b as Silver Gate Bcstg. Co. to San Diego Bcstg. Co. KVIC Victoria, Tex.— Assignment of license from Radio Enterprises Inc. to KVIC Bcstg. Co. Inc. KADA Ada, Okla.— Assignment of license from C. C. Morris to KADA iBcstg. Inc. J License Renewal WNAX Yankton, S. D.— License renewal AM station. License for CP WFVG Fuquay Springs, N. C— License to cover CP new AM station. WEAU Eau Claire, Wis. — License to I cover CP increase power etc. |; Modification of CP [, WCON Atlanta, Ga.— Mod. CP new AM station for extension of completion Idate. KBKX San Antonio, Tex. — Same. ' KFJI Klamath Falls, Ore.— Mod. CP ch'inge frequency, increase power etc. to increase 1 kw unl. to 1 kw-N ijS kw-D unl. (1150). License for CP WTIC-FM Hartford, Conn.— License to cover CP changes in FM station. %VFRS Grand Rapids, Mich. — License to cover CP for reinstatement of new FM station. Modification of CP KNOB Long Beach, Calif.— Mod. CP nc / FM station for extension of completion date. VSFL-FM Springfield, Mass.— Same. iVSNJ-FM Bridgeton, -N. J.— Same. WCOL-FM Columbus, Ohio— Same WSVS-FM Crewe, Va.— Mod. CP new FM station to change ERP to 14 kw. TENDERED FOR FILING AM— 980 kc KFRD Rosenberg, Tex. — CP change I from 980 kc 500 w D to 980 kc 1 kw-D 10(1 w-N unl. l/jacamint AWARDS to six Midwest stations, winners in Kroger Co. fall promotion contest, were presented at cocktail party given in Cincinnati early this month by the Ralph H. Jones Co., Kroger agency. Representing winning stations, Kroger and agency were: Seated (I to r) — Madeline Barry, WBOW Terre Haute, Ind.; R. Sanford Guyer, WBTM Danville, Va.; Lenore Little, WOOD Grand Rapids, Mich.; Joseph B. Hall, president of Kroger; Kathryn M. Hardig, assistant radio-TV director for agency, and John Sinclair, WCHS Charleston, W. Va. Standing — C. M. Robertson Jr., agency president; E. G. Feinthel, WLW Cincinnati; Jack Gelder, WCHS, and Marvin H. Hult, WMBD Peoria, III. NEW STATIONS Three Issued CPs CONSTRUCTION permits for three new AM stations, one fulltime and two daytime only outlets, were granted last week by FCC. All were for South Carolina. One existing AM station was granted change in facilities. New AM outlets were authorized at Union, S. C, to Union-Carolina Broadcasting Co.; Aiken, S. C, to Aiken-Augusta Broadcasting Co., and Greenville to Bob Jones U. WNAG Grenada, Miss., licensed to Birney Imes Jr., received switch in frequency from 1490 kc to 1400 kc. Outlet operates fulltime with 250 w. Details of new station grants : Union, S. C. — Union-Carolina Broadcasting Co., 1460 kc, 1 kw, fuUtlme, directional night; estimated cost $38,178. Principals: E. H. Hughes, president-treasurer 26%; F. W. Symes, part owner of Union Buffalo Mills, Greenville, 56%; Katherine McK. Wilkinson, vice president 10%. Aiken, S. C. — AikenAugusta Broadcasting Co., 1300 kc, 1 kw, daytime; estimated cost $13,575. Principals: William E. Benns, secretary-treasurer of WVOK Birmingham and WFEC Miami, 3%; Rutledge Anderson, secretary 40%; J. H. Wills, Dixie Engineering, Columbia, 28%; Gerald C. Merchant, secretary-treasurer WFGN Gaffney, 21%; Maria W. Skinner, vice president WFEC Miami, 5%; Aiken Chamber of Commerce 3%. Greenville, S. C. — Bob Jones U. Inc., 1260 kc, 1 kw, daytime; Tennessee nonprofit corporation for educational purporses. Dr. R. R. (Bob) Jones, chairman board of trustees. WOW FARMERS Tour Members Give Talks SINCE returning Dec. 20 from a 30-day visit to nine European countries, the 30 members (including 26 farmers) of the WOW Omaha Farmers' Trip to Europe [Broadcasting, Nov 1, Nov. 29, 1948] have given 600 speeches and addressed more than 60,000 persons. Appearances before audiences in Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas and Missouri have convinced members of the group that midwesterners have an intense interest in farm, economic, political and social problems in western Europe, according to Mai PUBLISHER PETITION To Revoke WGBA Denied A PETITION requesting revocation of licenses of WGBA and WGBA-FM Columbus, Ga., as an aftermath of a Ku Klux Klan meeting [Broadcasting, March 29, 1948] was denied last Thursday by FCC. The petition was filed by F. W. New, editor-publisher of the weekly Georgia Tribune at Columbus, who told FCC that the stations, owned by the local Ledger-Enquirer, had carried defamatory material about him, editorialized "in the guise of newscasts," and operated as "the editorial mediums" of the Ledger-Enquirer. The charges, which grew out of an episode involving a Ku Klux Klan meeting near Columbus, were denied by A. E. Mickel, general manager of the stations. He said WGBA and WGBA-FM treated the episode just as "any hot story v/ould have been," and also went to considerable trouble to get a statement from the Grand Dragon of the KKK and to broadcast, one from Mr. New himself [Broadcasting, April 5, 1948]. NBC Athletic Assn. ALBERT WALKER, NBC executive assistant, has been elected president of the NBC Athletic Assn. Jo Dine, director of the press department, has been chosen first vice president. Other officers: Joan de Mott, conti-oUers department, second vice president; Cal Wheeler, controllers department, treasurer; Kay Henderson, continuity acceptance department, secretary. HaTisen, WOW farm service director, who was tour leader. The tour group, which included besides Mr. Hansen and the 26 farmers. Bill Wiseman, WOW promotion manager, Robert McMillen of The Farm Journal, Philadelphia, and Lawrence Youngman, of Travel and Transport, Omaha, held a "reunion" dinner in Omaha March 9. March 29: Wander Co. hearing before FTC continues, Cleveland, Ohio. March 31: Radio Pioneers annual banquet. Toots Shors, New York. March 31: Gagwriters Convention, Park Sheraton Hotel, New York. April 4: WHAS Louisville transfer hearing resumes, FCC Hdqtrs., Washington. April 4-8: Society of Motion Picture Engineers annual convention. Hotel Statler, New York. April 6-8: AAAA convention, The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. April 6-13: NAB Convention, Stevens Hotel, Chicago (April 6-9, Engineering sessions; 10, NAB unaffiliated stations conference; 11-13 Management sessions). April 7-9: CBC board of governors meeting, Ottawa. April 12: Brand Names Day, WaldorfAstoria, New York. April 23: IRE Cincinnati Section technical conference, Engineering Societies Bldg., Cincinnati. April 25-27: All-Canada Radio Facilities annual meeting production and sales managers of mutually operated stations, Hotel Saskatchewan, Reglna. April 27: Second Annual TV Symposium of Screen Publicists Guild begins, Hollywood. May 2-4: Radio Farm Directors sessions, Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C. May B-8: Institute for Education by Radio, Ohio State U., Coliunbus, Ohio. May 16-19: RMA 25th annual Convention and Parts Industry Trade show, Stevens Hotel, Chicago. May 26-27: Virginia Assn. of Broadcasters, Williamsburg, Va. May 2S-June 1: Advertising Federation of America 4Sth Annual Convention, Houston. Tex. Aug. 25-28: AFRA annual convention, Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Sept. 30-Oct. 9: Second Annual National Television and Electrical Living Show, Chicago Coliseum, Chicago. MERCY APPEAL WIRA, Baukhage Aid Child LIFE of a two-year old boy, Donald Hill Jr. of Fort Pierce, Fla., was prolonged last week through the combined efforts of WIRA Fort Pierce and H. R. Baukhage, ABC correspondent in Washington. At the urgent request last Monday of the lad's father, WIRA manager Douglas Silver, after broadcastinglocal appeals, telephoned Baughage, who aired an appeal for "golden blood" (from persons cured of Leukemia) on his Tuesday 1 p.m. wetwork news program. Prospective donors were flown to Fort Pierce via chartered plane. Response was immediate land from far-scattered points. Donors wired and phoned from Flint, Mich.; Superior, Wis.; Portland, Ore., and Birmingham, Ala. Various specialists in the dread disease, that doctors feared would take Donny's life within four days, were recommended, along with the miracle drug, Aminopterin. Baukhage forwarded all information to WIRA and a Leukemia specialist was located in Birmingham. The boy and his mother were flown there immediately. He was treated with the drug and sent home, his blood count up considerably. 'broadcasting • Telecasting NATIONAL citation from American Legion has been awarded WHFC Cicero, 111., for "distinguished and meritorious public service" and cooperation "in the presentation of programs for the betterment of community, state and nation." March 28, 1949 • Page 73