Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

2 RADIO DAILY Wednesday. February 10, 1937 Vol. 1, No. 3 Wed., Feb. 10, 1937 Price 5 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE : : : Publisher DON CARLE GILLETTE : : Editor MARVIN KIRSCH Business Manager Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Radio Daily Corp. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau. Treasurer and General Manager; Chester B. Bahn, Vice-President ; Charles A. Alicoate, Secretary; M. H. Shapiro, Associate Editor; John English, Advertising Manager. Terms (Post free) United States outside of Greater New York, one year, $5 ; six months, $3 ; three months, $2; foreign, year, $10. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to RADIO DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone Wisconsin 7-6336, 7-6337, 7-6338, 7-6339. Cable Address : Filmday, New York. Hollywood, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. Copyright, 1937, by Radio Daily Corp. All rights reserved. NBC to Have Exhibit At Educational Meet Besides doing six regular and two special educational programs, NBC will assemble a complete exhibit of its educational work in the civic auditorium of New Orleans during the National Education Ass'n convention, Feb. 17-25 in that city. Delegates will thus have an opportunity to learn at first hand of the methods used in education by radio. Franklin Dunham, NBC Educational Director, will supervise the exhibit. Dunham will also address the convention on two occasions on "What Radio Can Do to Tell the Public About Their Schools" and "Radio as a Factor in the Education of Grownups." Miss Judith Waller, NBC Educational Director in Chicago, will also address the convention on "How Educational Organizations can Utilize Radio to the Greatest Benefit." Sponsor for Harlem Show "Amateur Night in Harlem" a sponsorless WMCA-Inter-City feature since November, 1934, leaves the sustaining class tonight and will be aired through the courtesy of Golden Peacock, Inc., cosmetic-makers. Don Kerr, announcer, remains as m-c. Program comes from the Apollo Theatre in the colored-belt of New York. FINANCIAL (Tuesday. Feb. 9) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Am. Tel. High Low Close & Tel 181 % 179% 181 % Crosley Radio 25% Gen. Electric 62% North Am 30y2 Stewart Warner 19Vi Zenith Radio 37'/2 25 V2 613/4 30% 19'/4 371/4 25i/2 62 30% 19i/2 371/4 Net Chg. % Special Event Program Booked in Record Speed (Continued from Page 1) legislature went on record yesterday as opposing President Roosevelt's Supreme Court reform plans, NBC had lined up a special events broadcast from Maine to Texas for the radio audience. Working via long distance phone A. A. Schechter, NBC special events director, had A.T. & T. install special lines in the legislative chambers of the Connecticut and Maine. In addition to these states the Texas governing body and Washington were tied into the broadcast. While a crew from WOAI was covering the eighty miles to Austin, Texas, in less than an hour, WCSH was sending its crew and equipment to Augusta, capital of Maine, a distance of 40 miles. In Washington NBC contacted Representative Maury Maverick, Democrat of Texas, and had him listen to the first part of the broadcast and answer the legislators who opposed the President's plan to increase the Supreme Court of 15 members. Mr. Maverick introduced the President's Supreme Court bill from the floor of the House of Representatives last week after the message was read to Congress. Another pick-up was made from the Hartford legislature with WTIC handling the necessary details. In answering comments from the legislators who did not indorse the Supreme Court plan, Rep. Maverick soundedoff in style. Advanced Features In New KEWB Plant Radio Clinic Revised "Radio Clinic", medical information program recently cancelled by WBNX with the statement that its motives had been misconstrued, has been revised and presented to the medical profession for ratification. The new formula provides for elimination of actual patients in the program and their substitution by a dramatic cast who will impersonate the patients. (Continued from Page 1J south end of the Warner lot. It has six large studios, including the studio theater, 85 feet long and 50 feet wide, with a 20 by 50 foot stage, opera seats, modernistic decorations I and lighting effects. Harry Maizlish, manager, turned j acoustical problems over to C. M. | Mugler of Acoustical Engineering Co. i Wals are "splayed" to overcome con[ struction "headache". Wooden splay■ ing is lined with four inches of ab! sorption to check cavity resonances. I Walls treated with acoustone, ceilI ing untreated, so sound waves travel i in a triangle from point to ceiling j and then down. Path of reflected ; sound cannot exceed path of direct j sound by more than 65 feet (1/15 ; second) which tends to re-enforce and I amplify sound waves. Combination j of splayed wall, acoustone wall and j untreated ceiling is original with ! Engineer Mugler. ; Station's master panel, facing anI nouncer's booth, controls all activi. ties within the station, and can use 52 main trunk lines, i KFWB's multi-manual pipe organ, built especially for broadcasting, stands in front of stage in broadcast theater, connected by remote control 1 to two rooms above and behind the stage, which serves as reverberation chamber, which has also been splayed like stage wall and theater, except that here the splaying has been on the ceiling instead of the walls. cominG and Gome Femme Stooge Makes Good Joan Banks, 18-year-old blonde actress, selected from among scores auditioned by Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle and Budd, has won a berth as the comedians' first and only feminine stooge on their Sunday NBC broadcasts. She will be heard each week at 5: 30 p.m., over the NBC-Blue network. FCC Grants Permission Washington Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY Washington — Federal Communications Commission granted permission for the establishment of a new radio station to The Peoples Forum of the Air, Helena, Montana. Grant specified that the group be permitted to operate on a frequency of 1210 kc, with 100 watt-power, full time. Exact site for transmitter to be determined with FCC's approval. NBC Adding KOB NBC will add station KOB to their networks early in the summer. Station was to have joined earlier, but special lines must be put up, and that has caused the delay. NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp 17 13% 17 + % Majestic R. & T.... 4V2 43/8 4% + % Nat. Union Radio... 2% 2l/2 2'/2 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked CBS A 50 52 CBS B 493/4 513/4 Stromberg Carlson 19Vi 20'/i Get 1,700 Responses "Lets Visit", program on WOR, keyed for the first time Sunday night, with an offer of an ash tray free for the asking, pulled 1,700 requests within 3 days' time. Show has two announcers with portable mikes calling upon tenants of a different house each week, without preliminary work of any kind. It is expected that more than 3,000 will be the grand total. FCC Denies Motion Washington Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY Washington — Winston-Salem Journal Company's petition for a rehearing on application to erect a new 250watt broadcasting station at WinstonSalem, N. C, was denied by the Federal Communications Commission. Application made by C. G. Hill, George D. Walker and Susan H. Walker was granted by the Broadcast Division Sept. 9, 1936. Station will be a daytimer, operating on 1250 kc. Lester Quits WHN Gene Lester, WHN publicity department, resigns from the station on Saturday. He will fill contracts from various agencies in New York on candid camera assignments. Lester, who has been heard on special broadcasts from WHN will continue his broadcasting duties. I LENOX R. LOHR. NBC president, is i expected back in New York before the end i of the month. Understood he plans to : take a quiet vacation somewheres in the I Mid-West. REGINALD BROPHY, NBC manager of stations relations department, on the j road for a few days. Expected back early j next week. MILTON BERLE, JONES and HARE. ! WENDEL HALL, JOLLY GILLETTE. I ANDY SANELLA, BERT GORDON. I TOMMY MACK and announcer DON SEYMOUR, all of the Community Sing show, j leave for Hollywood on Monday, a week earlier than originally planned. CLEM MCCARTHY, sports announcer, flies to the west coast next week. Will broadcast the Santa Anita handicap. BERNARD A. YOUNG, president of the Intercollegiate Music League, in city from Boston. Reason for trip is to locate an outlet for the compositions written by college students. JACK KOFOED, sports commentator, left for Philly, returning to city on Friday. JAMES R. CURTIS, president of KFRO, Longview, Tex., and secretary of the Texas Broadcasters Ass'n, leaves New York today. Visit to east was prompted by desire to see FCC about starting new station. LOU GOLDBERG, Major Bowes' unit, booker, returns to N. Y. from Chi on Friday. MAIDA SEVERN, WINS soloist, leaves on the Veendam this afternoon for twelveday cruise to the West Indies. She is the guest of the National Wholesale Druggist Assn. BOB TAPLINGER returns tomorrow from a three-week business trip to Hollywood. ALICE FROST returns to city today. Will resume on the Big Sister show for Rinso. PHIL COHAN, NBC production man back from Bermuda. BERNICE JUDIS, general manager of WNEW returned to job after three week coast trip. Kofoed Leaving WHN Jack Kofoed, nationally known sports writer and commentator, has begged off from his commitments at WHN, where he was head of the sports dep't. Kofoed had a one-year contract with Louis K. Sidney, station head, which didn't terminate until next Sept. Action to resign was prompted by the pressing business on the outside, where he is engaged in making thirteen short subjects yearly for Columbia Pictures, writing mag stories, etc. There won't be a successor to fill the berth. Kofoed remains in WHN offices for a few weeks. February 10 Greetings from Radio Daily to G. Stanley McAllister