Radio daily (Apr-June 1937)

VOL. 1. NO. 39 FIVE CENTS Lift Music Restrictions H WJ Finds 'Em Detroit — Bill Mishler's "Missing Persons Bureau," daily except Sunday sponsored feature on WWJ, Detroit News station, has located 175 missing persons in a year. Queries have come from 40 states and lost ones have been found in 12. MORE CBS PROGRAMS FROM SAN fRANCISCO West Coasl Bincau of THE RADIO DAILY Los Angeles — Preparatory to more CBS shows originating from San Francisco, work is to start immediately on what will virtually amount to a two story building to house the new CBS-KFSO San Francisco studios, atop the Palace Hotel, over the ballroom, it is announced by Donald W. Thornburgh, CBS vice-pres. on Coast. Both the new studio and new transmitter are to be ready for service within four months. Studios and offices will use space over the ballroom, which is a onestory part of the otherwise 14-story building. There will be two large studios, two mediums and one small, (Cuiitiiiucd on Piuic 3) Publishers Loosen Up on Film Songs Used in Sustaining Programs^ Obviating Title Mention PACirNlTil IN CO-OP CAMPAIGN Portland, Ore. — Radio will figure importantly in an advertising drive undertaken by MacWilkins & Cole agency here for the Columbia Empii-e Industries, Inc. The co-operative campaign is to stimulate consumer interest in thousands of products grown or manufactured in the Northwest. INS Free Trial Period Up International News Service today completes the two-week free trial period of its short wave news broadcasts and will continue on with the service, according to Walter E. Moss, INS sales manager. Moss said several stations had been signed for the service. In the new Lucky Strike-Edwin C. Hill series that begins today on CBS, Mondays through Fridays, 12:15-12:30 p.m., INS news reports will be used exclusively. New Studios of KFRU Being Dedicated April 10 Columbia, Mo. — Dedication of KFRU's new studios, speech input system, transmitter and offices has been set for April 10, with a specail four-hour program being arranged by George Guyan and Clair Callihan, KFRU production executives. Talks by Governor Stark, Mayor Pollard and other notables will be part of the ceremonies. Morning Hours Pull In the Milwaukee Area Milwaukee — Republic Steel, on a 6:45 a.m. program offering a saucepan as premium, pulled 700 to 800 letters a month via WTMJ, the Milwaukee Journal station states. Olson Rug Co., at 7:15 a.m., got 200 letters a week requesting catalogs. * THE WCCr IN RACIC * . . . CBS Resumes Tele Activity By M. H. SHAPIRO =^ DE ANGELO RESIGNS AGENCY RADIO POST Carlo Do Angelo, for the past six months radio director for Lennen & Mitchell Inc., has resigned. Mann Hollincr will fill in for the time being at least and work on production of the Woodbury "Rippling Rhythm" Sunday night show and the "Follow the Moon" afternoon script program. De Angelo's resignation is attributed to the fact that he understood that he was to have free hand in running radio department, when he joined late last summer. This, it is said, failed to develop to De Angelo's satisfaction. He was formerly with N. W. Ayer & Son Inc., and more recently with The Blackman Co. Has a background of long stage and Hollywood experience. Chicago Cubs Sponsor WBBM "Dugout" Series Chicago — "Dugout Dope," ten-minute interviews preceding each baseball game at Wrigley field this sea.son, will be sponsored over WBBM by the Cubs, Chicago National League team, it is announced by H. Leslie Atlass, CBS vice-president. George Sutherland will handle the interviews. Home games of the Cubs and Sox will be sponsored alternately by General Mills and Vacuum Oil. Free-Tread Readying NBC Disk Campaign Free-Tread shoes through Hughes, Wolff & Co., Rochester, N. Y., is placing a series of 15 five-minute RCA-Victor transcriptions on an unannounced list of stations. NBC transcription department produced the disks. I\<»wscastor wScIkioI Columbia, Mo. —KFRU in cooperation with University of Misscuri School of loumalism is giving students of the school a chance to qualify as newscasters. Five different students doily present a news program, which Ihey prepare themselves, over KFRU. Lads get training, station gets variety of voices and news styles. AFTER a lapse of several years of actual experimentation, CBS began preparations on a huge scale, to take an active part in the television picture. Although FCC permission is awaited officially, it is not expected that there will be any hitch in this direction. Acquisition of the Chrysler building tower appears to be a fortunate move ... by the time the World's Fair arrives across the river, tele will most likely have come into its own . . . RCA did well also, selling some $500,000 worth of equipment, or at least getting the order for the apparatus. . . . Coincidental with the tele expenditures announced for the future. CBS also contracted to spend $500,000 for a new transmitter and studios in San Francisco. KFSO will get the new transmitter. . . . Old-time mellers and former film (.Continued on Pag* 2) Decision of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians to put into effect the resolution passed over a year ago banning mention of film sources of hit tunes on sustainings unless the musicians are paid as though playing a commercial broadcast, has resulted in several of the leading publishers controlling film music lifting the restrictions for sustaining shows. Anti-movie plug movement got under way in Chicago, where James Petrillo, local union head, did away (Continued on Page 6) Proposed Maine Bill Would Aid Reception Augusta, Me. — A movement is on foot to secure suspension of the rules in both branches of the Legislature to permit introduction of a bill intended to help radio reception in all parts of the state. If the rules cannot be suspended, the measure is to be introduced at next session Short Wave Plan Seen At International Meet Brussels — Belief that plan for systematically distributing short wave lengths over the whole world will be worked out at next year's annual convention of the Union Internationale de Radiodiffusion was expressed by Raymond Braillard, director of the International Control Station here, following his return from the convention in Berlin, where 94 delegates from 23 European countries took part. First 10 Yoars Los Angeles — NBC's Western Division celebrates its tenth anniversary today, looking back ove? its growth from a small network of western stations to what now amounts to a broadcasting empire with two networks stretching from KGU. Honolulu, to KOHL and KGIR, Montana. Don Gilman, coast chief, has been at the helm for almost the entire decade. I