Radio daily (Apr-June 1937)

Thursday, AprU 8, 1937 RADIO DAILY 3 SET NAB CONVENTION FOR CHICAGO IN JUNE {Continued from Page 1) meeting included C. W. Myers, NAB president, from KOIN, Portland, Ore.; Edward Allen, WLVA, Lynchburg; Harry Butcher, CBS vice-president in Washington; Arthur B. Church, KMBC, Kansas City; Edwin E. Craig, WSM, Nashville; John Elmer, WCBM, Baltimore; John J. Gillin Jr., WOWO, Omaha. Also Harold Hough, WBAP, Fort Worth; J. O. Maland, WHO, Des Moines; Gene O'Fallon, KFEL, Denver; John F. Patt, WGAR, Cleveland; Gordon Persons, WSFA, Montgomery; Frank Russell, NBC Washington vicepresident; T. W. Symons Jr., KFPY, Spokane, and James Baldwin, NAB managing director. This is the second consecutive year that Chicago has been selected as the NAB meeting place. Last year the NAB headquarters were located in the Stevens Hotel. New 'Show Boat' Setup; . Ross Changes Sponsor {Continued from Parte I) because of previous commercial commitments, will also probably drop from the program. A. Hobler, head of Benton and Bowles, and Herschel Williams, director of the program, are now in Hollywood completing plans for the new series. General Foods Corp. (Maxwell House Coffee) sponsors, with Benton and Bowles handling the account. Ross, now in his fifth year as singing lead of the program, is under contract to General Foods Corp. until October of this year, but under terms of contract is allowed an eightweek vacation. He goes to Hollywood for a film in July, and with the Show Boat broadcasts moving west, Ross will completely sever his connections with the sponsor in July. Ross has already signed for a new series and sponsor to hit the air next fall. "Sunday Drivers" Resuming Fields and Hall will resume their "Sunday Drivers" series over the NBC-Blue network on April 25, 33:30 p.m. Series will run through the summer. April 8 Greetings from Radio Daily to Tito Guizar Bert Gordon Arthur Allen Thornton Fisher Lulu McConnell NEW PKCeCAMS-l DEA/ "It Can't Happen Here" Presenting strange facts, startling events and unusual happenings in other countries, in the form of questions and answers, "It Can't Happen Here" is clicking as a thrice-weekly late afternoon feature on KMOX, St. Louis. School students are among chief listeners of this educational feature. Helpful Information "The House by the Side of the Road", 15-minute program designed to give helpful information, is being conducted by Marion Goodwin over WWL, New Orleans. Miss Goodwin handles the entire program. Amateur as Stooge In sponsoring 15 minutes of the 1370 Club, a full hour variety show over WDAS, Philadelphia, Morton's Credit Jewelry house, varies the amateur angle by having a radio announcer supply the human interest angle. Talent is all professional or guest while an amateur from the audience watching the visual is rung in for the spiels. Gets a dollar for the quarter hour effort, but must be the butt of the program's regular announcer and stooge for the performers. To make him full-fledged, amateur has to read the commercials. 5 Symphony Orchestras Signed for Bank Series American Banks, through Wessell Co., have signed five symphonic orchestras to replace the Philadelphia Symphony which goes on tour after the April 16 broadcast. On April 23 the Cincinnati Orchestra, Eugene Goossens conducting, will appear. Following which will appear the San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting, April 30; New York Philharmonic, appearing for the first time on a commercial broadcast, Alexander Smallens conducting, May 7; National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D. C, Hans Kindler conducting. May 14 and the Rochester Symphony, Jose Iturbi wielding the baton. May 21. Sponsor's plans past this date are not definite. It is believed that the Philadelphia Orchestra will not resume broadcasting, and show may fade from the air for the summer months. Agency will announce decision at a later date. CBS Kate Smith Circus Show CBS will broadcast a special program, emceed by Kate Smith, direct from the Barnum and Bailey circus next Friday, 4:30-4:45 p.m. Miss Smith will take a party of orphans as her guests to the circus, and they will give their impressions of the affair over a coast-to-coast hook-up. Last year a similar stunt was worked by same net when Eddie Cantor took Bobbie Breen to witness his first circus and the boy aired his conception of the circus. ST. LOUIS A new series, Frank Eschen's Sportcasts, went on the air Monday at 6:45 p.m. over KSD. Will continue daily except Sunday. More than 6,000 attended the birthday party of Jane Porter's Magic Kitchen at KMOX. Another studio with individual control, suitable for either dramatics or music, is being erected by KMOX. MPPA Committee Will Study Changes (Continued from Page 1) be chosen to succeed him. Paine is leaving to become general manager of Ascap. Committee consists of: Edward B. Marks, Elliot Shapiro and Sam Fox. Canada Dry Series Canada Dry (ginger ale) signed for weekly programs on WTAG and WLLH as beginning of new spring and summer campaign. Programs will be combination of street interview and Professor Quiz broadcasts. A complete radio schedule is now being readied and will be announced by the end of this month. J. M. Mathes advertising agency has the account. Fizdale Shifting East Tom Fizdale, radio publicist, will shortly shift his radio publicity activities to New York and curtail his Chicago set-up, it was learned yesterday. Fizdale, who has been in town for the past few days, left Tuesday for a trip to Baltimore and Washington before returning to Chicago. WOR Airing Trout Season Official opening of the trout season will be marked by a WOR broadcast April 15, 12-12:30 noon, from the Joe Jefferson Club on Saddle River, Ridgewood, N. J., with a pickup from the banks of the stream. Bob Edge and Dave Driscoll, both in waders, will commentate. Harry Armstrong of the N. J. Fish and Game Commission will assist at the fly-casting. At the Rainbow Grill Emery Dcutseh and His Orchestra Unusual, Romantic Music CBS Artist Bureau Management Rockwell-O'Keefe, Inc. Radio City, New York and Hollywood DEAD THIS SESSION (Continued from Page 1) told RADIO DAILY that he did not concede defeat and was determined to get action before Congress adjourned. Less optimistic, was Chairman Congressman Charles Kramer, consistent opponent of the measure who stated that the bill was dead unless somebody managed to again bring it up for consideration. Other Congressmen appeared sure the bill did not stand a chance of being passed this session. Leon Churchon Named KYA Program Manager (Continued from Punt 1) has been in the production department the past six months, and before that was with WCAE, Pittsburgh. Bob Stanley, announcer, has been promoted to the production department. "Musical Camera" Off; Sponsor Drops Agency "The Musical Camera," sponsored by Rogers 1847 Silver and featuring Josef Cherniavsky, fades from the NBC-red network after the April 18 broadcast. Program is heard over a network of 24 stations at present. At the same time it was announced that the account will leave N. W. Ayer. No successor has as yet been named, and radio plans for the concern will not be discussed until new agency takes over. Cherniavsky has prepared a movie short in song and may go to the west coast following the completion of his radio schedule. Gardening Note NBC is hiring gardeners again. Every summer the NBC engineering department hires gardeners to take care of the shrubs and lawns surrounding the WJZ transmitter house at Bound Brook, N. J., and the WEAF equipment at Baldwin, L. I. H. C. Johnson has the WJZ assignment, Thomas Sprague is out at WEAF. WNEW Catholic Series Fordham Glee Club will be heard over WNEW Saturday 4:30-5 p.m. as the first in a series of Catholic Charities broadcasts. THE SONGBIRD OF THE SOUTH KATE SMITH A & P BANDWAGON THURSDAYS CBS NETWORK 8-9 P.M., E S T. EXCL MANAGEMENT TED COLLINS