Broadcasting (Oct - Dec 1950)

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O^n ike dotted line CINCINNATI U. grid sponsorship on WCPO-AM-FM Cincinnati is arranged by (seated, I to r) W. C. Heinz, Cincinnati Oil Works; Glenn Clark. WCPO station dir.; (standing) G. E. Murray, Cincinnati Oil; Waite Hoyt, WCPO; James Heekin, Haehnle Adv. Agency; Bill Gilmore and Robert Spina, WCPO. DETAILS for State of Georgia to sponsor state-wide broadcast of Firefighters, program on fire prevention and safety, are worked out by (I to r): State Fire Marshal F. E. Robinson; S. Fred Brown, southern representative, Wm. F. Holland Production Inc., Cincinnati; Zack C r a v e y, _— Comptroller General's Dept. FOURTH consecutive renewal of Who's Talking Show, participation series on WWCO Waterbury, Conn., is made official by Adam J. Bizzuto, secretary-treasurer of Progressive Grocers Assn. in Naugatuck Valley. Station Commercial Manager Gustave Nathan (I) and Gene Valentino, show m.c, look on. PACT for Mon.-Fri., five-minute, 52weeks of late evening news on WTAM Cleveland is completed by Wm. Burkhardt, president, Burkhardt Brewing Co., Akron., as Harold L. Gallagher, WTAM sales manager, looks on. Newscaster Tom Field will handle shows. Fuller & Smith & Ross is account agency. STANDARD Oil of Neb. takes U. of Nebraska games on KFAB Lincoln for third straight year. Harry Burke, KFAB general manager, watches John Hay, Standard's district manager, complete the contract. NOTRE DAME games on WNEB Worcester are taken by Brownell & Field Co. (Auto':rot coHee). L to r: Tod Williams, Horton-Noyes Adv. Agency; Edward T. McCaw Jr., WNEB commercial manager; Richard Fields, sponsor firm; John J. Hurley, station general manager. IN mammoth Wichita Falls, Tex., deal Ellis Head, pres.. Head Brothers Furniture Stores, renews Welcome to Hollywood, and signs for two other shows, each five times weekly on KFDX. At left is Sid Grayson, KFDX local sales manager. Right is Doc Warren, show organist, and D. A. Cannan (seated), KFDX president. ELECTION NIGHT Special Shows Planner By Major Networks SPECIAL programs for election night, Nov. 7, are planned by all tl major networks. MBS will devote the entire evening to election reporting, bridging tl gaps with musical features. CBS, NBC and ABC will interrupt schedule programs throughout the evening for bulletins. Liberty Broadcasting will carry special programs throughout the evening, with pick ups from various key points. CBS plans a coast to coast roundup of returns beginning at 10 p.m. and lasting, except for a scheduled quarter-hour of news analysis, until the main contests have been decided. A special staff of tabulators and compilers will assist in analyzing the returns. MBS will set up a "network within a network," stationing at vantage points throughout the country Cecil Brown, Bill Cunningham, Cedric Foster, Les Higbe, William Hillman, Robert F. Hurleigh, Everett Holies, Joseph McCafferey and Major George Fielding Elliot. A somewhat similar system will be used by ABC, which is setting up seven regional desks linked by wires leased for the occasion. Commentators in each region will summarize the trend there, and then fit it into the countrywide picture. Staff members standing by in the several regions will include Elmer Davis, Erwin D. Canham, Walter Kiernan, George Sokolsky, H. R. Baukhage, Martin Agronsky, John B. Kennedy, Edwin C. Hill, Robert Montgomery, Henry J. Taylor, Paul Harvey, John Edwards, John Daly, Taylor Grant, Pauline Frederick, Gordon Eraser, Julian Anthony and Don Gardiner. NBC plans an "election roundtable" at 12 m.-12:30 a.m., following 30 minutes of election sum Meets in St. Louis CONFIDENCE in future of AM radio, with particular emphasis on the independent station outlook, was expressed by members of AIMS (Assn. of Independent Metropolitan Stations) at its annual fall convention, held at the Lennox Hotel, St. Louis, Oct. 16-18. Member stations pointed to increases in national and local business, and a majority indicated they have been affected least of all by television inroads, citing boosted sales involving TV manufacturers who turned to independents to sell their sets. It also was pointed out that nighttime network buyers are diverting part of their budgets to daytime spot radio. The AIMS group, under the chairmanship of William E. Ware, KSTL St. Louis, also adopted for submission to FCC a resolution urging the U. S. Delegation to make every effort to reach a NARBA agreement now without narrowing channels. It also recommended that FCC "take a definite stand and break national clear channels for wider and greater usage in public interest." maries. A half-hour "wrap-up, recapping the day's voting compre hensively, will follow. Staff mem bers standing by will include H. \ Kaltenborn, Morgan Beatty, Rich ard Harkness, Ned Brooks, Ra; Henle, W. W. Chaplin, Leon Pear son, George Hicks, Lockwood Dot; and Earl Godwin. TV coverage of the elections ove CBS-TV will be sponsored by tli(| Longines Wittnauer Watch Co with emphasis on the gubernatoriaj and congressional contests through' out the country, from 10:30-1 p.m. and from 11:10 p.m.-12 m ABC-TV plans to follow closely th ABC radio coverage. Plans fo NBC-TV have not been announced PAPER STRIKE Spurs Piff-sburgh Newscasts RADIO and television stations in I Pittsburgh derived additional revenue from department stores and other businesses during the i-ecent mailers' and drivers' strike that suspended publication of the city's three daily newspapers. ' Outgrowth of the strike, which] began Oct. 2, was an increase in' number of newscasts, inauguration ' of new TV shows, and even the air | announcement of death notices, I heretofore within the exclusive domain of the newspaper field. Two large department stores — Gimbel's and the Joseph Horce Co. — started their own TV shows on WDTV(TV). Many retailers were reduced to circulation of handbills because of scarcity of radio time. KQV added eight news segments to its normal schedule, according to Bill Burns, station news director, who increased his own newscast schedule from one to three per day. NAB District Meetings 6, Roosevelt Hotel, Oct. 26-27: Dist. New Orleans. Nov.' 2-3: Dist. 4, Williamsburg Inn and Lodge, Williamsburg, Va. Nov. 9-10: Dist. 5, Ansley Hotel, Atr lanta. Stevens Oct. 23: BMI Program Clinic, Hotel, Chicago. Oct. 26-28: Audio Engineering Society Audio Fair, Hotel New Yorker, New York. Oct. 29-Nov. 4: National Radio & Television Week. Oct. 30-Nov. 2: Theatre Owners of America Convention, Shamrock Hotel. Houston. Oct. 30-Nov. 1: Radio-Television Mfrs. Assn. and Institute of Radio Engineers, Hotel Syracuse, Syracuse, N. Y. Oct. 31-Nov. 1: AAAA Eastern Conference, Roosevelt Hotel, New York. BROADCASTING • Telecasting