Broadcasting (Jan - Dec 1935)

RAGS IS FINE RAIMENT when wo"1 for virtue's sake! > we're full of By nature, of course ,reason we Janly virtues. But Ute covering don't try to fafj^y Once you get all of Kentucky » th« is hardly outside Lomsy.Ue, the worth ^^/e'accountsfor 27.6% (Louisville ; alone acc ^ ^ of the retail trade i dium which we dare y^JfJS. any more than influences that 27.6 /0 7 NRC WAVE— or at less cu»> FREE & SLEINWGER, IWC. TRANSCRIPTIONS ADDITIONAL transcription accounts placed on various stations are reported as follows by National Advertising Records, these being supplemental to the lists carried in previous issues of Broadcasting : A C Spark Plug Co., Detroit. General Household Utilities Co., Chicago (Grunow refrigerators) Robt. A. Johnston, Milwaukee (candy) Kissproof, Inc., Chicago (lipstick) Wonder Co., Chicago (Ovaltine) Wilson & Co., Chicago (dog food) ASSOCIATED OIL Co. of California, San Francisco, has bought the rights to 26 episodes of The Shadow, transcription mystery serial, with music, cut by MacGregor & Sollie Inc., San Francisco, now being released over four Montana stations, KFBB, KGVO, KGHL, and KGEZ. Lord & Thomas, San Francisco, is the agency. L. E. CLARK has been named head of recording and film operations for the Hollywood branch of RCA-Victor Co., succeeding H. E. Williams, who will be transferred July 15 to the Camden plant. CAPT. C. WHITNEY SHEELY, production manager of Radio Release Ltd., Hollywood transcription producers, resigned June 5 to establish Radioad Service, Hollywood. Betty Woods, executive secretary of Radio Release, will fill his place. Radioad Service will act as a program agency for radio with complete script service and transcription facilities. It will not engage in a general agency business. MAHLON MERRICK, former program director of KHJ, Los Angeles, early in June started to produce a series of 13 15-minute music-dialogue transcriptions at Radio Recorders Inc., Los Angeles. Source of Slogans TO GEORGIA'S "Little Colonel", Lambdin Kay, director of WSB, Atlanta, may be attributed the bebeginning of those slogans of radio stations which run "The Voice of Somethingor-Other." When WSB first went on the air some 13% years ago, as the first radio station in the South, he adopted the slogan "Voice of the South". Slogans of this character have been popular with radio stations ever since. FREEMAN LANG, president of Radio Transcription Co. of America, Hollywood, has sold his interest to G. Y. Clement of Philadelphia, resigning as president. Mr. Lang will continue as head of his own sound studios. It is understood that C. C. Pyle will be named president and the firm moved to new quarters. THE Comedy Stars of Hollywood transcriptions produced by Walter Biddick in the Freeman Lang studios, Hollywood, have gone into their 250th presentation. The sponsor is Dr. Miles Laboratories Inc., Elkhart, Ind. R. U. McINTOSH & Associates. Los Angeles, has named George Swire, San Francisco, sales representative for the Northwest; W. N. Masters. Jr., Dallas, Southwest; Raymond Hertzler, University City, Mo., Midwest except Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa which will be supervised by Walter Ehredt, Chicago. OLESEN SOUND STUDIOS, Hollywood, in June started to record Congo Bartlett, a series of 39 15minute discs. The series includes a sales record in the form of a telephone conversation between a New York agency and the producer. TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE BUREAU has been started in Hollywood by C. C. Mcintosh, with technical work to be done at Recordings Inc. and pressings at Columbia. A series of 78 quarter-hour bridge discs presents Culbertson contract bridge lessons, along with printed lessons to be delivered after the broadcasts. The Bureau has taken over sales rights of 150 five-minute hillbilly discs recorded from KMTR, Hollywood. Cleveland 610 Kilocycles An Independent Station with BIO Coverage in Ohio NewOperatorsofWMMrl Making Plant Change I REORGANIZATION and rebuihl ing of WMMN, Fairmont, W. Vajl recently acquired by George 1^ Storer, of Detroit and John / Ryan, of Toledo, was announce June 7 by A. M. Ramsey, manaj ing director of the station. Cor tracts have been awarded for cor struction of new studios and office to occupy about 6,000 feet of Moo space on Main Street. Upon con pletion of the remodeling, ne1 speech input equipment and a ne^ 1 kw. transmitter will be pm chased to replace the present 50 watt plant, along with new trar scription turntables. Additions to the WMMN sta include Herbt O. Morrison, armour cer formerly with XER, and foi mer manager of WIND, Gar; Frank Knutti, formerly wit KDKA, WLW and WHAM, als has joined the staff. Brooklyn Case June 24 ORAL arguments on Examine Hill's report, recommending gram ing of the facilities of the fou Brooklyn stations sharing time o 1400 kc. to the Brooklyn Dail Eagle, have been ordered heard b( fore the FCC Broadcast Divisio in Washington June 24. The fou stations will oppose the examiner report, and Arde Bulova and No) man K. Winston, who were joint] recommended as secondary selei tions after the newspaper, will pr< sent their case. Other stations ir volved in the frequency battle ar WEVD, WHAZ, WFAB an WBBR, and they have been ii vited to appear. The four statior which would be deleted if the ej aminer is upheld are WARI WBBC, WLTH and WVFW. M Winston, a New York realtor an the partner of Mr. Bulova, on Jur 4 secured consent of the FCC t the transfer to his control c WTFI, Albany, Ga. Returns to Hawaii FRED J. HART, managing dire, tor of KGMB, Honolulu, wh makes his headquarters in Sa Francisco, sailed May 28 on it Mariposa for Hawaii to supervis: installation of complete new EC radio equipment in the statioi Hart also plans to establish a lOf watt station on the Island of HiL for which application was file with the FCC in April. Sailin with him were Tom Barry, fo: mer KJBS producer announce San Francisco, and his wife, Ck Barry, radio actress. Barry ra signed from KJBS to fill the sp< vacated by Bob Cutter, form( KGMB producer announcer, wl has returned to the mainlam Reed Pollock, brother of Grai Pollock, KFRC announcer, in Sa Francisco, succeeded Barry i KJBS, coming over from KGG( in that city. R ADIO STATION EPRESENTATIVES WALTER BIDDICK CO. 568 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Los Angeles 1358 Russ Bldg., San Francisco, California 4404 Stuart Bldg., Seattle, Washington 619 Charles Bldg., Denver Business Goes UP with the Mercury 0 WBAL accounts this summer hit FAR AHEAD of last Jan.-March, and they're going to STAY-UP! Advertisers know that NOW IT'S WBAL IN BALTIMORE. Power, Progressiveness, Prestige and Program Popularity are the Causes of WBAL's Domination. 1060 KCS. %AJ^D I Ba*fc Blue Network 10,000 wattt yfff D^^lv NBC B A L T I MORE PAUL H. RAYMER CO., NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES 4 BROADCASTING • June 15, 193