Broadcasting (Jan - Dec 1935)

Astrologer Banned ALBERT S. COOLEY, known as "Daddy Rango", astrologer and health broadcaster cited in FCC hearings, has been banned from the air by Mexico, the ruling having been issued at Tijuana July 31 by Mexican immigration officials. Cooley allegedly used a ficticious passport. The Daddy Rango programs had been heard on certain California stations until about two years ago. "SELLING Radio Advertising, How and Why," is the title of a booklet compiled by Major Edney Ridge, director of WBIG, Greensboro, N. C, for the use of his commercial department. WR.VA, STATION \ ) OF COURSE / 5,000 WATTS, TOO SOOO WAT T S RICHMOND, V A. STUDIO NOTES WHILE a baseball game was being broadcast Aug. 1, WBBM's transmitter in Glenview, 111., was struck by lightning, completely destroying the generator that supplies the current to the plates of the transmitting tubes and throwing the station off the air for seven minutes until the auxiliary transmitter could be brought into use. NEW studios of KNX, Hollywood, were to be ready Aug. 15 with two weeks allowed for necessary moving. The new quarters are in a completely refinished and remodeled one-story and a mezzanine building at the corner of Sunset Blvd. and North Gordon St., Hollywood. Formal dedication will take place early in September, according to Guy Earl, president. WORK on a huge mural for studios of WIBM, Jackson, Mich., has been started by Allan Thomas, the picture to be 38 x 7 feet. A floodlight system will illuminate the mural, which will be started about Sept. 1 and require ten weeks actual painting. WIBM has erected a large display panel which advises approaching tourists to tune to its frequency. STUDIOS of WSOC, Charlotte, N. O, have been completely overhauled. A novel innovation in sound effects is an automobile program in which noise of automobiles running and a band playing is used to create the effect of the announcer reviewing a mammoth parade of the used cars of a local auto sponsor. In Kansas City, Take Dr. Pratt's Prescription — BEFORE Advertising on WHB AFTER Advertising on WHB SOUR PUSS PRETTY PUSS DR. RUSSELL PRATT, Ph.D. (Doctor of Phun), former member of the radio team, "The Two Doctors" (Pratt & Sherman), has joined WHB after 10 years at WMAQ. KYW and KMOX. and numerous sponsorships on NBC and CBS. His witty programs and deft showmanship are winning new listeners for Kansas City's dominant daytime station — WHB. Write for details of Dor tor Pratt's programs available for sponsorship. FACT BOOK • FREE! 64'pages of pictures, people, programs, popularity polls. If you're spending money for radio advertising in the Kansas City area, you owe it to yourself to read a copy. SENT FREE ON REQUEST. Shows why WHB delivers the "moat listeners per dollar" of advertising expenditure. DON DAVIS, President JOHN T. SCHILLING, General Manager KANSAS CITY'S DOMINANT DAYTIME STATION COBRA MILKED— IN NBC studio with the radio audience hearing the proceedings as enough venom was extracted from the 11 foot cobra, named Naja Hannah, to kill 70 men. The venom of the jungle terror is used for medical experiments. The two milkers at the right are Carol Stryker, director of the Staten Island zoo, and Clifford H. Pope, curator of reptiles of the American Museum of Natural History. CLEVELAND stations have organized a soft ball league, with a Cleveland jeweler offering a permanent silver trophy. In competition recently scores were WGAR 11-WTAM 2 ; WGAR 4WJAY 3, entitling WGAR to the trophy for a year. Ellis VanderPyl, commercial manager, and Worth Kramer, schedule manager, highlighted the WGAR team. WITHIN a few hours WLAP, Lexington, Ky., raised $1,000 for local destitute when Manager Winston L. Clark took the microphone and broadcast an appeal for funds. WGN, Chicago, has put its new auxiliary studio in Tribune Tower into service. Acoustic treatment is by Johns-Mansville Co., using Transite. RCA supplied pick up equipment on specifications of Carl J. Meyers, chief engineer of WGN. OPEN HOUSE at the opening of the new home of WHA, Madison, attracted thousands of visitors who inspected the equipment as well as Navajo decorations and the largest radio pipe organ in the state. Pepsin Syrup Discs PEPSIN SYRUP Co., Monticello, 111. (Dr. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin), is transcribing The Monticello Party Line, a humorous drama of small town life, which will be placed this fall over 20 Southern and Western stations. The scripts are written by Sandra Michael and the programs are being transcribed in the Chicago studios of the Columbia Phonograph Co. by the Cramer-Krasselt Adv. Agency, Milwaukee. TRANSCRIPTION] BRINGING the total number of c'J ents now served by the World PrJ gram Service to 127, WBS announe jl the addition of the following statioiM to its list: WTMJ, Milwauke.j] WSAI, Cincinnati ; KVSO, Ardmoi '| Okla. ; WFBR, Baltimore; KTA'S Ft. Worth. AUDISK Corp., San Francisco tra: 1 scription producer, is cutting a quar S er-hour 26-episode railroad serial i 30 years ago, The Green Valley Lin I to be syndicated to stations for su fl taining and re-sale to sponsors. Co a Rhys Davies, short story writer an i adventurer, has written the scrip 3 Audisk Corp., has also cut 12 dram: 1 tized one minute announcements fcl the Roger's Fashion Lane, Oaklaiul Cal., (men's 'clothes) which has bee| placed direct with KSFO, San Frail Cisco; KROW, Oakland; KQW, Sa Jose, and other northern Calif ornii stations. MASON B. MOLTZNER has bee appointed production manager c] Titan Productions Inc., San Franciscj transcription firm. He was formerl in charge of radio for the Associate | Advertising Service, Portland, Ore and produced several programs o I KGW, in that city. Moltzner is th ' author of two books, My Kingdot Come, and True Tales. MacGREGOR & SOLLIE Inc.. Sa Francisco transcription producer, i recording a 15 minute 312 episodf semi children's serial, The Brow Fa mily. TITAN PRODUCTIONS Inc., Sa; Francisco transcription concern, is re i cording a 15-minute 39-episode foot ball series, The Building of a Chain pion, written by John Eggers. Titart Productions is also cutting a quarter^ hour 26 program mystery serial Tropic Terrors. Walter Patterson i ! the script writer. EARNSHAW RADIO PRODUC TIONS, Hollywood, issued its an nual catalog Aug. 1, with new tran scriptions including a 15-minute ser ies of Don Ricardo's orchestra anc Portraits in Literature, designed fo bookshop sponsorship and written b} Prof. William E. Walsh, of Regi: College, Denver. PARAMOUNT RECORDING STU DIOS have been established at 642.". Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, by Atz<; Taconis and Harry Stoddard, song writers. Both audition discs and re corded productions are planned. TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE BUREAU, Hollywood, has named Kasper-Gordon studios, Boston, as representatives for New England and New York. GEORGE H. FIELD, New York; transcription producer, has moved to 875 West End Ave., New York. 0 COVERING THE TAC0MA SEATTLE MARKETS FREE & $LEININGERIN(0<*< TWO markets at the price of ONE Transmitter located midway J between Seattle and Tacoma. * 1000 watts 570 kc. Pioneer CBS Station in the Pacific Northwest Page 44 BROADCASTING • August 15, 1935