Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr - June 1951)

Open Mike (Continued from page 30) the prospective announcer, actor, singer does, and what happens? Two weeks pass, a nice letter is received, thanking you for your interest, but regretting another applicant was better qualified for the position. Sometimes the photo is enclosed, but never the record . . . It's simple logic that one record could be used again, perhaps profitably, if the artist had it to use . . . Couldn't the station men . . . return such records? E. J. J. Chicago * * * Who's Got The Ball? EDITOR: .... KGLO is probably the first radio station in America that ever tried to cover three basketball games at the same time — a situation from which we hardly had any escape because of the great public interest in all three games. Compliments by phone, letter and postcard have been pouring in ever since. . . . . . . Of course, you would have to appreciate what a hot bed of basketball this part of the country is during basketball tournament time in order to get the full impact of such a coverage attempt. . . . H. B. (Hank) Hook Manager KGLO Mason City, Iowa Announcers Ken Kew, Chuck Hilton and Sports Director Bud Suter (standing, I to r) and Engineers Lynn Cole, Glenn Wright and Carl Olson (kneeling) handled three-game broadcast of basketball tourna< ment for KGLO Mason City, Iowa. We're Hanging EDITOR: Broadcasting • Telecasting may not be exactly a journal of highbrow art, but an ad that appeared in Broadcasting is hanging in the famous Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C, this month. It is a WTOP two-color page, designed by George Wilt of the Washington Post promotion de partment, and the only radio station ad in the 2d Annual Advertising Club of Washington Advertising Art and Photography Exhibit at the famous gallery. Cody Pfanstiehl Director of Promotion and Press Information WTOP-AM-FM-TV Respects WHBQ IN THE SOUTH'S GREATEST MARKET REPRESENTED .... by WEED L L \ (Continued from page 106) Tube Co.), and the radio business. Mr. Storer ran the tube business. His brother-in-law, J. Harold Ryan, now senior vice president of Fort Industry, ran WSPD, a 1 kw station by that time, and brother Douglas Storer operated WGPH. The competitive niceties of the gas business left a bad taste with George Storer, especially when Mr. Ryan, keeper of the records, took a trip to California. Confronted with a stack of federal, state and sundry other record blanks, he threw up his hands and announced, "I'm out of the oil business. You go and bother Harold with it." By 1931 the oil business had been sold to Standard Oil Co. of Ohio and "oil" dropped out of the name. In 1930, on doctor's advice, he sold WGHP to the Kunsky-Trendle theatre interests. It later became WXYZ. A group of Canadians asked Fort Industry to build a station in adjacent Windsor, Ontario. The station was built, using the call letters CKLW, and then sold later to Canadian interests. Meantime, Fort Industry had bought WWVA Wheeling, W. Va. Lessees of WMCA New York called on Mr. Storer to take over management of the station in 1933. He operated WMCA a year-and-ahalf, developing an East Coast network called American Broadcasting System. The network finally became a victim of the deepening depression. WMMN Fairmont, W. Va., was bought in 1935; WLOK Lima, Ohio, in 1938; WHIZ Zanesville, Ohio, in 1939, and sold in 1947; WAGA Atlanta in 19 WGBS Miami in 1944; WJBK l| troit in 1947. Application to buy WSAI C cinnati from the Marshall Fi interests was approved March WLOK was sold to the Pixley terests in Columbus to make ro for WSAI under the multiple o-> ership rules of the FCC. The Storer TV block indue WJBK-TV, WSPD-TV and WAG TV Atlanta. The last-named out is operated by his son, George TV applications are on file 1 Miami, Wheeling and Minneapo! A fourth TV application was herited from WSAI. The Stoi group includes six FM outlets a a newspaper property, the Flork Sun, at Miami Beach. This quick recap of high spo in George Storer's business care sheds considerable light on the m himself. Obviously he is — and ; ways has been — a commerc dynamo. Things have happent constantly, wherever he has focus his attention. Most of his ente prises have prospered. If the od were too tough, he quickly conced it was time to do something ai very quickly something was dori George Storer loves his propel ties, and keeps on intimate terrr with their operating details. HI station managers are all vice pre , idents and directors of Fort I 1 dustry, and they have autonomy f their operations. Industry Service Many times the broadcasting jil dustry has called him to servieff In 1941 he was named assistai t chairman of the Broadcasters Vi tory Council, which drew up tl"| policies for station operation cl ] behalf of the war effort. He joine m the Navy in 1943 as a lieutenai it commander, going to Chicago & a businessman in uniform to handi material and metallurgy. Late he was sent to the West Coast, the back to Washington, and returne to inactive duty status in 1945. Right now he is active in deve oping NARTB's new TV deparf ment and was named chairman c" the committee that will pick a vide head for the association. He wa asked to help redraft NAB's by laws to give TV a strong place i the structure. Some of the prepar atory work was done aboard hi yacht Verlane, harbored near hi Miami Beach home. Mr. Storer maintains a perma nent residence at Bloomfield Hills Detroit suburb. Clubs include De, troit Athletic Club, Bloomfieh Hills Country Club and Indiai Creek Country Club, Miami. Th< Storers have four sons and a grand son born a fortnight ago. A pet hobby of this largest inde pendent broadcaster is Camt|i Storer, a YMCA recreation center That's the Storer story, in head line style. (Merely to list his corpo-|r rate connections would require several more paragraphs.) It's the story of a man who has used imagination, energy and daring ability to build up a business empire in the best American tradition. pre !(.! Page 128 • April 16, 1951 BROADCASTING • Telecasting