Broadcasting (Oct - Dec 1950)

TAKING a breather between sessions at NAB District 2 meeting in Albany [Broadcasting, Oct. 16] are (I to r): Seated, Tom Cunningham, Associated Press, Boston; Richard Lawrence, World Broadcasting System, New York; Alice Heinecke, SESAC; Harold W. (Dutch) Cassill, WEOK Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Standing, Thomas R. McHugh, WMSA Massena, N. Y.; David X. Williams, Standard Radio; Kenneth Sparnon, BMI, New York; Louis Saiff, WWNY Watertown; John Sehon, United Press, George Sutherland, WPTR Albany. MEETING at the Albany NAB session, William Fay (2d I), WHAM Rochester, N. Y., and District 2 director, receives a hearty handshake from the retiring director, Michael R. Hanna, WHCU Ithaca. Looking on ore (i to r); Oscar F. Soule, WFBL Syracuse; C. A. Bengston, WINR Binghamton, N. Y., James Howe, WCTC New Brunswick, N. J. LINCOLN NETWORK New Illinois Group Starts ABE LINCOLN NETWORK, compi-ising six Illinois stations, started daily programming of two 15minute periods Oct. 16. Membership includes WCIL Carbondale, WHOW Clinton, WLBH-AM-FM Mattoon, WMIX-AM-FM Mt. Vernon, WROY Carmi and WVLN Olney. J. R. Livesay, president of WLBH, was named chairman at a meeting Oct. 15. Live organ recital, featuring Ken Jakle, is fed from WLBH-FM from 1:15 to 1:30 p.m., and news roundup originates from WLBH-FM and WMIX-FM from 1:45 to 2 p.m. Two minutes of news is supplied by each station during the period, with FM stations picking up reports from other stations by AM and then relaying by FM. Network is strictly non-wire. GATHERED at the NAB District 2 meet (I to r): Seated, Andrew Jarema, WKOP Binghamton, N. Y.; George F. Bissell, WEAV Plattsburg, N. Y.; Martin Karig, WWSC Glens Falls, N. Y.; B. J. Rowan, WGY Schenectady. Standing, W. A. Riple, WTRY Troy; W. J. Purcell, WGY, Carl Mattison, WWSC. Page 28 • October 23, 1^50 ' . Mrs. John D. Ewing MRS. JOHN D. EWING, wife of the Louisiana publisher and radio station owner, died Oct. 12 at Gulfport, Miss. Mr. Ewing is owner of KWKH Shreveport and KTHS Hot Springs, Ark., publisher of the Shreveport Times and president of the News-World Publishing Co., which publishes the Monroe (La.) World and Monroe News-Star. NAB DIST. 2 Seeks Set Measuring Plan A RESOLUTION directing Wil^ liam B. Fay, WHAM Rochester, NAB District 2 director, to request the NAB board at its November session to research a means for measuring TV set manufacture and distribution was adopted by District 2 delegates meeting at the Ten Eyck Hotel, Albany, N. Y., Oct. 12-13. In a second resolution, Mr. Fay was directed to appoint an emergency committee under his chairmanship of New York and New Jersey broadcasters which would set up immediately a "bi-state emergency disaster network" as requested by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, New York civil defense chairman [Broadcasting, Oct. 16]. Although Mr. Fay has not yet announced the members of the committee and its plans. Gen. Clay's letter calling for establishment of a disaster network listed three "major" activities: (1) To teach the public self-protection if an A-bomb attack should come; (2) to warn the public of an unpending attack, and (3) to notify the public to evacuate target areas, or to prepare to receive evacuees from other areas. Gen. Clay's letter went on to say: You and your members are aware that ignorance and indifference are the gravest danger in an A-bomb attack. This fact was established at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Your net I works can be a major factor in consistently educating the public to the gravity of an A-bomb emergency as affecting the individual, his family and his neighbors. A small stations meeting, led by | Si Goldman, WJTN Jamestown, ' N. Y., was told of two successful promotions. One involved distribution of tags to voters as they reg t istered, followed by the awarding of prizes to children and school classes collecting the highest number of such tags. Another was a Meet the Sponsor program. STARS AND BARS WRC's Herson Goes 1865 A LOT of Confederate money may be passed in the nation's capital beginning today, Oct. 23. This is the date set by WRC Washington's Bill Herson (morning m. c.) to turn his studio into an 1865 clearing house — or so it will seem to the NBC station's listeners. By courtesy of Mr. Herson and WRC, Confederate bills will become legal tender for the purchase of a $525 RCA combination AM-FM-TV set with 16-inch picture tube. Set is to be purchased by the listener mailing in bids on the highest number (not the face value) of bills he or she can pay. On Nov. 18, the listener quoted by Banker Herson with the highest number will be asked to produce the bills and the "buyer" then can take title to his new receiver. With the award and "sale" slated for Nov. 29, WRC by then expects attics and other old storage places in the nation's capital to be thoroughly raided for that "valueless" money. BROADCASTING • Telecasting