Broadcasting (Jan - Dec 1935)

OGRAM NOTES International Kitchen, conductaily from 10 :30 to 11 a. m., over Oakland, celebrated its third liversary recently with an informal jjy held in the studios during the idcast. With Gladys Cronkhite, ietor, as hostess, a huge birthday it was cut at conclusion of the profn, which is sponsored by various onal and local food accounts and is manufacturing cooking equip|t. Featuring recipes taken from culinary arts of all nations, the jram is heard over KLX five days reek. It holds the unbroken record being on the air every week day § 'three years. Preston Allen, KLX »ager, and other station executives : ! :icipated in the celebration. RO, Longview, Texas, has started .aily morning program Know Tex: pointing out historical and geo"phical items. The program was . ted in conjunction with the Texas ^tennial and is to run for the bal j of 1935 and all of 1936. i iRSAKING the amateur hour idea, "bert's, New York diamond merDt, after 14 months sponsorship, •"Nov. 24 terminated the Herbert's iteur Hour on WMCA, New York, ! to be the first sponsored amateur i * in the metropolitan area. The !a|:asor has been on the air for 10 rs with various shows, and on Dec. t^-arts Alfred Wohl and His Golden jmgs Orchestra. : ALLABOUGH, program direcof WJJD, Chicago, has inaugu'jj'rd a service for listeners who may lending Christmas gifts to foreign !3s by telling them a week in ad-ce the last dates on which pack; may be mailed for delivery beChristmas. E Sidewalk News Exchange proon WFBL. Syracuse, developed tXBruff Olin, has been sold to the J zoil Co. for weekly broadcast for sveeks. The programs are staged at ws Theatre and Olin discusses at important news items of the Bv with passers-by. By distributI sheets containing question and ^Topics of question, Olin has found IP broadcasts are more interesting answers more intelligently. Five ons of Benzoil gas are given each son interviewed. i jRE, Indianapolis, has shifted -!e Hiram's Hayloft Dance to an :iutorium seating 1,500 to accommo1|2 the demand for tickets. VonneHardware Stores, distributing jt ;ddin Mantle Lamps, sponsor the jf )tv and distribute tickets free. The x m starts' a half-hour before broadaping time. fefiTIONAL BANK of Tulsa on Nov. J started a series of programs on JUL using a chorus of 63 male fees, supplemented by a weekly :-houx program with a two-piano n. The sponsor has options for 131 26-week renewals. iSN, Milwaukee, brought the Martte-Temple football game Nov. 14 n Philadelphia, the sponsor signa contract just a day-and-a-half ire the game. Allen Scott, of !AU, Philadelphia, and Howdy Ik, of WISN, handled the broadly )XS of the Pioneers" quartet doing ,iscriptions for Standard Radio .. Hollywood, won all honors in a 1-Billy Contest held in the Olym Auditorium in Hollywood. Nov. 9. ?h Farr, a member of the Pioneers, a the $150 purse as the best fid". and Len Slye won the prize for best yodler. 5XX, New York, presents its news dramatized form under the title Their First Miss AMOS 'N' ANDY, daddy of all of the radio dialogue shows, saw their eight year consecutive performance record smashed to smithereens Nov. 22 when they missed a show. They spent that day at a hunting club near Hagerstown, Md., and were to have gone on from WRC, Washington, for their regular 7 o'clock stint, but they missed connections. Bill Hay, the third man in the act, plugged in the 15 minute period from Chicago by presenting to the audience biographical and background data about the two comedians. The pair managed to get back to the studios in time for the 11 p. m. "repeat" show for Western stations. They caught a plane the following morning for home-town Chicago. Danny & August, a policeman and delicatessen owner who pause in their work to read the headlines. KOIL, Omaha, is offering its listeners both straight news of the day's happenings and sports news on the daily resume program sponsored each week-day evening on the American Tobacco program. From the Omaha studios part of the day's news resume is presented. The program is shifted to the Lincoln studios where Harry Johnson, well-known sports commentator, gives the day's sports news. The program then returns to the Omaha studios for the remainder of the news and the commercial announcements. WOC. Davenport, la., covered the dedication of the new $1,500,000 bridge at Bettendorf, la., with three announcers, several microphones and a crew of operators on hand. The click of the scissors that cut the ribbon that opened the bridge to traffic was caught by the microphone. A THANKSGIVING Day service originating at KFUO, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, from which the Lutheran Hour is broadcast each Sunday, was carried on a special MBS network of five stations Nov. 28 by the Lutheran Laymen's League. The stations were WLW, WGN, WCAE, CKLW, WINS. Kelly-Stuhlman Adv. Co., St. Louis, is the agency. MARION BRAGG is again doing his Words and Melody program over WMAZ, Macon, Ga., being scheduled daily at noon under sponsorship of a Macon furniture dealer. Poems sent in by listeners are read to an organ background. A NEW series of concerts by the U. S. Navv Svmphony Orchestra was started Nov. 27 on an NBC-WJZ network, Wednesdays, 4 :30-5 p. m. The orchestra has been augmented to 95 pieces. Composers will be invited to conduct their own works. EDUCATIONAL programs are being featured by KOMO-KJR, Seattle, with the University of Washington, King County Medical Society, Seattle Council of Parent-Teacher Association. Washington State Department of Health and Seattle Public Schools. A NEW series has been started on WKRC, Cincinnati, by the Federation of Churches of Cincinnati and vicinity. The thrice weekly programs, using the 8 :30 period, are interdenominational in nature. Tho Corttrn\ Stn-Hrm WHO -Doa MnvneA CLEAR ED-CHANNEL — 50*000 WATTS — FULL-TIME mcember 1, 1935 • BROADCASTING Reallocation Discussed By Clear Channel Group MEMBERS of the "clear channel group" of stations, who favor retention of clear channels to provide service to rural and remote listeners, met in Chicago Nov. 22 for a general discussion of FCC plans for realignment of facilities. They voiced support of a plan whereby power on a specified number of clear channels would be placed at a minimum of 50,000 watts, but with power allowable to 500,000 watts. The score of broadcasters heard comments on the present situation from J. C. McNary, technical advisor to the group; Philip G. Loucks and Louis G. Caldwell, legal advisors. In attendance were Ed Craig and Harry Stone, WSM, Nashville; Carl Havelin, KFI, Los Angeles; Lewis Allen Weis, WJR, Detroit; Lambdin Kay, WSB, Atlanta. Lee Coulson, WHAS, Louisville; Joseph A. Chambers, WLW, Cincinnati; Carl Meyers, WGN, Chicago; Joseph 0. Maland, and Paul Loyet, WHO, Des Moines; Glenn Snyder, WLS, Chicago; William Fay, WHAM, Rochester; Martin A. Campbell, WFAA, Dallas, and Hugh A. L. Halff, WOAI, San Antonio. SHOWMANSHIP f ♦ ". . . WHIO is giving off sparks which indicate that the anvil is being walloped. Dayton should be more highly regarded as a radio market hereafter . . ." So says VARIETY in its Showmanship Survey, which rates WHIO first in Dayton. RIT PRODUCTS Co., Chicago (Koolox brushless shaving cream), has launched a contest to aid its search for a new name for its Grand Stand Thrills program Monday evenings on MBS. The program started as a dramatization of sporting events but now includes general news stories. Prizes total more than $1,000. 39 S. 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