Broadcasting (Apr - June 1950)

OST OFFICIAL Congress Okays for D. C. WASHINGTON radio and televi;6on stations last Thursday resumed i ormal operating schedules after fcongress earlier in the week finally i.pproved Daylight Saving Time or the District of Columbia Broadcasting, May 1]. jl President Truman signed a kouse-originated bill (HR 6354) iter the Senate cleared the bill Tuesday, giving the District DST *or 1950 only, a provision which onflicted with a Senate-sponsored .ill favoring DST on a permanent ^asis. , Washington radio TV logs, crambled by the delay in launching "fast time," resumed operaions calling for listening periods ubstantially identical to those isted while the region was on Eastern Standard Time. ' Television stations were affected, lor the most part, during the fouray interim, with Washington teleiewers enjoying their network TV lare an hour earlier each day. Capital radio stations generally vere not affected on network shows, iring recorded playbacks to listeners at the same periods. I In House debate on the measure : jast Monday Rep. Joseph P. O'Hara R-Minn.) charged that "the force j'ehind this bill originates in New Ifork City where the radio people ,mt on their programs" and that Jadio announcers had "quite frequently" urged District residents |d vote for DST. He deplored DST 4s a "delusion and a myth" in opposing the measure. FTC Actions TOTAL of 1,331 out of 77,420 radio ontinuities examined by the Fedral Trade Commission during Jarch were set aside "as being possibly false and misleading," ii"TC's Division of Radio and Periodical Advertising has reported. fTC conducts monthly survey of adio, TV, magazine, newspaper, mail order and other advertisements looking toward apparent and trobably misrepresentations. Roy Thompson I ~& A M 25 years of radio expariUy ence and personal particlI ■ pation in his community's I projects and services have made Roy Thompson a ■ m. household word in industri T ally -rich Altoona. WRTA, the Roy Thompson Station, will assure you a loyal, buy_ ■ ing audience throughout the Jk listening hours. ABC 1240 KC Altoona, Pa. Represented by ROBERT MEEKER ASSOCIATES Time Simulated WHEN is a simulcast not a simulcast? Answer: When legislators fail to push up their own clocks and the rest of the country adopts "fast time." That's exactly what happened last week before Congress finally gave the green light to EDT for the District of Columbia — effective four days after the normal national switchover. Washington televiewers of NBC's Voice of Firestone, which is usually simulcast, last Monday got the TV version at 7:30 and the radio portion an hour later, because of scrambled radio-TV schedules. 'SAVE THE SOIL' Awards to Texas Stations AGGRESSIVE programming on measures to defeat soil erosion has won honors for KFRD Rosenberg, KGNC Amarillo and WFAA Dallas, all Texas, in the fifth annual "Save the Soil and Save Texas" awards program sponsored by Scripps-Howard newspapers in that state. KFRD was named winner of the small-station class for doing the most for soil-conservation in Texas during 1949. KGNC won recognition for its efforts as did WFAA, which received honorable mention. Awards in the form of bronze plaques will be presented at the annual awards banquet to be held at the Rice Hotel in Houston May 16. Featured speakers are Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N. M.), former Secretary of Agriculture, Gov. Allen Shivers, and other dignitaries. Highlights of KFRD's campaign, General Manager Jim Hairgrove said, included personal interviews tape recorded with farmers, studio interviews with agriculture leaders and regular news releases on soil conservation. NRDGA SESSION Radio-TV Panel Set A RADIO and television panel is scheduled among events at the midyear conference of the National Retail Dry Goods Assn. at the Hotel Biltmore, Los Angeles, May 31-June 2. The radio and television panel session will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 31, in the grand ballroom of the hotel. Chairman of the panel will be E. J. Shurtz, vice president of the Broadway department store, Los Angeles. Participants will be George L. Moskovics, CBS manager of television sales development; Maurice B. Mitchell, BAB director; Mag Zahrt, of BAB; Robert Enders, of Robert Enders Advertising Agency Inc., Washington; and James Rotto, sales and publicity director, Hecht Co., Washington. WBAT WGBF BIDS FCC Would Grant Changes INITIAL DECISIONS to grant WBAT Marion, Ind., change from 500 w daytime on 1600 kc to 250 w fulltime on 1400 kc and to grant WGBF Evansville, Ind., power increase to 5 kw fulltime, on 1280 kc, have been reported by FCC [Broadcasting, May 1]. Hearing Examiner James D. Cunningham, in recommending approval of the WBAT bid, ruled to deny the new station requests of Chronicle Pub. Co., Marion, and Kokomo Pioneer Broadcasters, Kokomo, Ind. He preferred to grant Marion its first fulltime facility because Kokomo already has such an outlet, WIOU. Since Chronicle Pub. Co. owns both daily papers in Marion, the examiner preferred to approve the application of WBAT, an independent firm. The publishing firm also is licensee of WMRI (FM) there. In the recommended WGBF grant, Hearing Examiner Jack P. Blume found that only slight interference would occur to KSFT Trinidad, Col. He ruled to deny competitive bid of WMRO Aurora, 111., for night operation on 1280 kc with 100 w. WMRO, now on that channel with 250 w daytime, was ruled out because it is a Class IV station on the regional facility and did not meet all conditions necessary to entitle it to exception under FCC's rules governing channel allocations. Kokomo Pioneer Broadcasters is a partnership of Donald A. Burton, William F. Craig and Ralph J. Whitinger. Messrs. Burton and RICHARD C. HOTTELET on May 18 resumes his former post as CBS correspondent in Berlin, succeeding BILL DOWNS, who will move to CBS news staff in Washington. H. V. KALTENBORN replaced on his NBC news commentary show by RICHARD HARKNESS during former's vacation from May 26 to Sept. 11. JACK LEWIS, sportscaster for WTVR (TV) Richmond, Va., is the father of a boy. BILL MURPHY, news editor and disc jockey for WCKB Dunn, N. C, is the father of a boy, William Bailey Jr., born April 24. JOE CRYSDALE, sports director of CKEY Toronto, is the father of a girl, born April 21. Craig own WLBC Muncie, Ind. The Chronicle Pub. Co. publishes the Marion Leader-Tribune (morning), Chronicle (evening) and ChronicleTribune (Sunday). Coast Electronic Show SEVENTH annual Pacific Electronic Exhibit will be held in 1951 at San Francisco Civic Auditorium, Aug. 29-31, according to H. P. Balderson, president of West Coast Electronic Mfrs. Assn. The sixth annual exhibit will be held at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium next Sept. 13-15 inclusive. NEED MORE COVERAGE? KFYR 550 KC 5000 WATTS NBC AFFILIATE BISMARCK, N. DAK. lake no "bones" about it . . . you get real coverage in this important market when you use powerful KFYR advertising. Out here, listening to KFYR is a habit — based on a quarter century of outstanding service. Ask any John Blair man for the complete story. 5ROADCASTING • Telecasting May 8, 1950 • Page 65 1