Radio daily (Apr-June 1937)

VOL. 1. NO. 37 NEW YORK. THURSDAY. APRIL 1, 1937 FIVE CENTS 4 Awards to CBS, 2 to NBC 2-HOUR DEDICATION SET FOR WEEI TRANSMITTER Boston— WEEI will officially dedicate its new 5,000 watt Western Electric transmitter and transmitter liouse in a two-hour program on Saturday, 3-5 p.m. Station will hold "open house" at (he new transmitter during the dedication program and special remote pick-ups from all over Boston will be broadcast. Pick-ups from the new streamline Comet as it arrives at South Station from Providence and a two-way contact with an American Airlines plane as it nears Boston are planned. Program will pay tribute to the State of Massachusetts and other New England states. The governor (Continued on Page 3) Heinz to Run Contest With Payoff in Products H. J. Heinz, through the medium of its CBS "Magazine of the Air" program, will start an "Eaters Digest Recipe Contest" on April 9. Payoff will be in Heinz products — 1,400 in number. Entrants submitting recipes to the contest must include a Heinz product in the recipe. No proof of (Continued on Pane 7) New Program Is Set For Chase and Sanborn J. Walter Thompson and NBC yesterday officially confirmed the new line-up of talent to be heard on the Chase and Sanborn program when it goes musical May 9. Don Ameche, NBC actor and film star, Werner Janssen, symphonic conductor and (Continued on Page 7) In Dad's Footsteps UVv/ Coast Riir.. KADin PlAILY Los Angeles — Kelly Anthony, son of Earl C. Anthony, owner of KFI and KECA, the NBC outlets, has joined the staff of his father's stations to start a special events department. He has been with the Ed Pelry station rep agency in New York for a year or so. The lad is a U. of C. graduate. THIRD ANNUAL AWARDS Women's National Radio Committee BEST MUSICAL PROGRAM Ford Motor Co.'s Ford Sunday Evening Hour, over CBS network. BEST VARIETY PROGRAM Rudy Vallee's Varieties, sponsored by Standard Brands, Inc.. over NBC-Red network; Vallee program selected for second consecutive year. BEST EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM NBC's Chicago University Round Table, sustaining over the NBC-Red network. BEST NEWS PROGRAM Boake Carter, sponsored by Philco. over CBS network. BEST CHILDREN'S PROGRAM CBS for "Children's Corner", sustaining, with Dorothy Gordon. BEST DRAMA PROGRAM Lux Radio Theater, sponsored by Lever Bros., over CBS network. SPECIAL AWARD WOR and Mutual Broadcasting System, for outstanding contribution to serious music. SUPER AWARD Walter Damrosch. for doing more in behalf of good music over the air than any one man in this country. FCC IS OPTIMISTIC OVER HAVANA RESULTS H aslungloti Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY Washington — FCC is "more than pleased" with the results of the Inter-American radio conference which was concluded this week in Havana, according to A. D. Ring, chief of the FCC engineering division. Advices received from the Ameri (Continned on Page 3) MPPA'8 $38,000 WBS LIWY Music Publishers Protective Association, clearing electrical transcription music licenses, will have for distribution to copyright owners for the month of March the sum of $38,000. This is an all-time high in (Continued on Page 7) Jack Howard is Prexy of CR; Aylesworth is on Directorate Jack R. Howard, for the past six months assistant secretary of Continental Radio Co., the ScrippsHoward radio station subsidiary, has been elected president, succeeding Karl A. Bickel, who becomes chairman of the board in place of W. W. Hawkins, it was announced .yesterday. Hawkins becomes chairman of the executive committee, a new post in Continental. M. H. Aylesworth, former NBC president and more recently chairman of the board of RKO, now with Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, (.Continued on Page 3) WOR-Miitual, Damrosch Also Are Honored By W.N.R.C. CBS walked off with four honors, with NBC getting two, while WORMutual and Walter Damrosch were specially cited in the Third Annual Awards of the Women's National Radio Committee, announced yesterday at a luncheon in the St. Regis Hotel before a gathering of about 300 from the radio and advertising fields as well as WNRC members. A tabulated list of the awards appears on this page. In addition to the six straight awards instead of the four usually made, two special awards were made, one going to WOR and the Mutual Broadcasting System, "for its outstanding contribution to serious music" through its consistent presentation of the Stadium concerts and operas during the summer season when there is a limited amount of fine music on the air. The eighth, and "super-award," went to Dr. Walter Damrosch. Mrs. William H. Corwith, chairman of the Awards Committee of the WNRC. made the presentation of the scrolls. William S. Paley, president of CBS, accepting all but one of the CBS program awards in behalf of either CBS or the sponsor involved. C. A. Eslinger of the Ford Edgewater plant accepted the Ford scroll, and Rudy Vallee for Standard Brands Inc. President A. J. McCosker handled the WOR and Mutual end, and Margaret Cuthbert, director of Women's Activities for NBC, batted for President Lenox Lohr, who was unable to appear. Also unable to appear was Chairman of the FCC Anning S. Prall, who sent his regrets and felicitations. Sev {Continued on Page 7) .\lioad of I ho News Arthur Hale, newscaster on WOR, at 11 p.m. on Tuesday night quoted some remarks supposed to have been made that evening by Senator Robinson in his Supreme Court speech. Robinson was speaking on the air at the same time as Hale, but over CBS, and did not utter the lines in question until about ten minutes after Hale quoted them.