NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1944)

day and Wednesday, December 12 and 13. Preliminary registration indicates that the entire membership of the newly appointed Committee will be present. The Committee will review the presentation and plans for the clinical test of broadcast advertising to be con¬ ducted in San Antonio, Texas, by Joske’s of Texas, the largest department store in the state. In addition, the group will plan for the participation of sales managers in the forthcoming NAB District Meeting tour. On Wednesday, December 13, the Committee will meet at luncheon with the Chicago Radio Management Club. SMALL MARKET STATIONS COMMITTEE SETS DECEMBER 14-15 MEETING Robert T. Mason of WMRN, Chairman of the NAB Small Market Stations Committee, has called a meeting of this group for the Palmer House in Chicago on Thursday and Friday, December 14 and 15. The newly appointed Committee plans to explore further the possibilities of group selling as outlined in the presentation of the Com¬ mittee at the NAB Executives War Conference in Chicago last August. In addition, the Committee expects to ar¬ range for the participation of small market station opera¬ tors in a special session at the NAB District Meetings. By the time of the Committee meeting, it is hope that the District Chairmen of the Small Market Stations Commit¬ tee will have been appointed so that this group can plan on an intensification of small market station activities within each of the NAB districts. "TOPICS OF THE TIMES" With this issue of the NAB Reports we are enclosing a reprint from the September 6, 1944, issue of The New York T ivies. We think you will find the comment on socalled soap operas very interesting. SPEED PRODUCTION OF GLOBAL SHOWS BUT MORE SPEED WANTED Broadcasters engaged in the production of “Let’s Go to Town” programs for global broadcast to our military per¬ sonnel have speeded up operations during the past week. Districts j±2 and #12 Are 100% Two more districts, #2, comprising New York and New Jersey, and #12, comprising Kansas and Oklahoma, are over the top with definite completion dates reported for 100% of programs allocated. District #2 was 54.5% complete on November 10 (NAB Reports, Nov. 10). Last Saturday NAB received the fol¬ lowing production dates for the unreported production areas, thus making this district 100%. New York City 6 Jamestown 1 Syracuse 1 Newark 1 pgms. 3-Dec. 3-Jan. pgm. January pgm. J anuary pgm. December District #12, 25% on Nov. 10, has set the remaining three programs to make this district 100%. The new shows follow: Oklahoma City 1 pgm. Topeka 1 pgm. Wichita 1 pgm. December January December Completed Shows Delivered or En Route Information from Armed Forces Radio Service and from producers indicates that the following Task Force Commanders have delivered completed shows or these shows are en route: Earl Pudney, WGY, Schenectady area Don McNamara, KFI, Los Angeles Dr. Leon Levy, WCAU, Philadelphia Les Johnson, WHBF, Rock Island-Moline-Davenport Howard Dahl, WKBH, LaCrosse-Winona Wiley P. Harris, WJDX, Jackson James H. Moore, WSLS, Roanoke Six More Scripts Cleared Since last week’s reports the following scripts have been cleared in Los Angeles : DISTRICT #1 Waterbury, WBRY, Erwin J. Frey DISTRICT #2 Troy, WTRY, Woodbury Carter Jersey City, WHOM, Craig Lawrence DISTRICT #4 Columbia, WIS, Richard G. Shafto DISTRICT #5 Birmingham, WSGN, Henry Johnston Montgomery, WSFA, Howard Pill Five More Shows Scheduled The first “Let’s Go to Town” program covering the Washington, D. C., area is to be cut Sunday morning, De¬ cember 3, according to Task Force Commander Fred Shawn, WRC. Task Force Commander C. P. Hasbrook, WCAX, in¬ tends to cut the “Let’s Go to Town” program for the Burlington, Vt., area in December. Task Force Commander Alex Keese, KGNC, sent the Amarillo area script to Los Angeles for clearance on No¬ vember 28. Will cut in early December. KGNC and KFDA worked together. The Danville-Lynehburg combination show is to be cut early in December according to word from Task Force Commander James H. Moore, Roanoke. Robert R. Feagin, WPDQ, writes that the Jacksonville area “Let’s Go to Town” program will be cut in December. RYAN HEADS FUND DRIVE (As released by the NAB News Bureau) Washington, D. C., Nov. 30. — J. Harold Ryan, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, has accepted chairmanship of the national radio division in the annual fund-raising drive to combat infantile paralysis, it was announced today. Appointment came from Basil O’Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Dates for the drive have been set as Jan. 14 to 31, 1945. In accepting the appointment, Ryan assured O’Connor of the services of the broadcasting industry of America in the fund-raising activities. WMOH OFF TO FLYING START In its first three months of operation, WMOH, Hamilton, Ohio, has carried 33 separate remotes and broadcast 26 live talent shows, each separate acts, with many of the shows on daily schedule. “That,” says Don Ioset, executive director, “is how the station naturally became a vital part of the community in such a short time.” Some of the regular remotes include broadcasts, Mon¬ day through Friday, direct from Miami University; daily broadcasts from Western College, at Oxford; daily live stock reports direct from the Cincinnati stock yards ; daily December 1, 1944 443