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Helnl Radio-Television News Service
9/6/50
TRADE NOTES
A seven-nation radio conference opens in Washington today (Sept. 6 ) in a new effort to iron out long-standing difficul¬ ties over assignment of broadcast channels.
Representatives are expected from Cuba, whose stations have been the target of complaints that Cuban broadcasts interfere with more than 600 standard band stations in the United States.
Other countries represented are Canada, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and the United Kingdom as agent for the Bahamas and Jamaica,
The Radio Corporation of America declared a dividend of 8?2 cents per share last week on the outstanding shares of $3*50 Cumulative First Preferred stock, for the period from July 1 to September 30, 1950* The dividend is payable October 2, 1950* to holders of record at the close of business September 11, 1950.
The "Catholic Hour", which last March observed its 20th anniversary on NBC, will be heard on the network from 2. *00 to 2:30 P.M. EST, Sunday, October 1, instead of from 6:00 to 6:30 P.M. , as in the past.
In commenting on the change of time, Charles R. Denny, Executive Vice President of NBC, and Stewart Lynch, President of the National Council of Catholic Men, said that a greater number of stations will carry the program in the new time period and a much larger audience will be available.
Alfred Kohlberg, New York importer of Chinese textiles, told the National Exchange Convention in Washington last Monday, Sept. 4, that the press, radio and higher education have been "in¬ filtrated" by pro-Communists. Big business in many cases is afraid to speak out, he said.
The selling power of one of the top-ranking quiz programs will be put behind the RCA Victor "45" drive when RCA Victor takes over sponsorship of "The $64 Question", starting Sunday, Sept. 10. The show, formerly called "Take It or Leave It", will be broadcast over the full coast-to-coast NBC network of 165 stations in the 10 to 10:30 P.M. (EDT) Sunday time period.
Motorists returning to Chicago on Labor Day, Monday,
Sept. 4, after the long holiday weekend, had the benefit of a birdseye view of the traffic situation ahead through a special radio¬ traffic bulletin schedule presented by Station WG-N in cooperation with the Chicago Motor Club, More than 300,000 automobiles carrying over a million person returned to Chicago on Monday, Sept. 4th.
In an observation plane, Tom Wiley, Chicago Motor Club Traffic Engineer, observed traffic movements and congested areas and short-waved his reports to WGN inhere a special features crew process¬ ed the reports for broadcast throughout the late afternoon and even¬ ing.
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