Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

4 7ADIO DAILY Tuesday, March 23, 1937 REVISED MUSIC CODE SUBMITTED TO F.T.C. (Continued from Page 1) objections of some of the publishers, and all prohibitions against payment of "push money," have been incorporated into a group in Rule 1. Latter move coincides with the wishes of the F.T.C, in regard to payment to radio and other artists for plugging songs, as well as other so-called bribery practices. New RCA Transmitter Is Dedicated by WROK (Continued from Page 1) ceived by Tommy Cameron, Maurie Nelson, Karl Hanson and Garth Bowker, WROK engineers. New equipment marked the increase of power from 500 watts to 1.000 watts day and 500 at night. New transmitter will triple the station's strength, according to Lloyd C. Thomas, manager. Business Is Doubled By WNBH Solicitors (Continued from Page 1) 7-7:15 p.m.; Hathaway Oil Co. (Shell), 10-10:15 p.m. nightly except Sunday, 52 weeks of "Tomorrow's Headlines": Berry Bros, paints, through Maxon agency, Detroit. 13 "Musical Rainbows" 5-minute weekly disks: C. F. Wing Co. store, two 15minute shows weekly with "Hollywood Recipes" (Bigelow Rugs), 52 weeks; My Bread Baking Co., 18 participations weekly in local news periods and 25 spots weekly, 52 weeks; Franco-Americaine Hour, additional half-hour weekly, 52 weeks, third year. Ten firms also have been signed on 52-week contracts for various numbers of weekly announcements, and seven others have been renewed for like periods. Sold Out Knoxville — WNOX. the ScrippsHoward station here, has announced that no more time is available for sponsorship between the hours of 6:45-9:45 a.m. WAML Adds Newscasts Laurel, Miss. — Two news broadcasts a day, one at 7:30 a.m. and another shortly after noon, are on the regular schedule of WAML here. Service is furnished by Transradio Press Service, whose New Orleans bureau governs this territory. mmn i-l I ■1)2 H 17 I 18 I 19 I 20 21 22 » '5. 1 25 26 i 27 I 28 29 30 March 23 Greetings from Radio Daily to Arnold Johnson • • • Ivory soap listened to Jackie Coogan, Mary Small and a dozen or more kiddies yesterday afternoon at NBC . . Campana is negotiating for the half-hour musical variety show with (Baby) Rose Marie, Frank Gaby, Joey Ray and guestars ... Johnny Green is doing guestar spots on the coast, talking about music .... "Lazy Dan" goes Mutual for National Silver. . . .Louis Raderman may be signed as concert violinist for Boris Morros at Paramount by the time this appears ... Charles Adler of the Yacht Club Boys is sending out photos of himself with a mustache he just sprouted. . . Thirteen NBC announcers have auditioned for the show to be sponsored by the cycle industry .... Jackie Heller is slated for a spot on the Ed Wynn airings. . . .Ben Lipset has been made an honorary citizen of Galveston .... Jack Oakie will have Judy Garland on his airings for 13 weeks starting next Tuesday. • • • Wire from Benny Gaines of the Mayfair, Boston's swanky club, gives the new line-up because of Cross & Dunn going to the Chez Paris the 13th .... Belle Baker goes in the 1th followed by Benny Fields the week after and then Cross & Dunn. .. .Everett Marshall opens at the Versailles the 14th. . . .Clarence Muse has completed "Memphis Suite" after three years. . . .East and Dumke return as "Sisters of the Skillet" for Kellogg's April 12. . . .Karlton Ka Dell will do a picture-talk on a Boulder Dam flicker ... .Watch Freda Starr, who auditioned on the Ivory spot yesterday. She's eleven and has a Deanna Durbin voice ... .Helen Hayes threw a party at the Rainbow Room for the sponsors, advertising execs and cast last night after her fade-out on the "Bambi" show. • • • Phil Spitalny and his girls will take over the vacated Jack Pearl time on NBC-Red Monday nights beginning April 23. . . Morton Bowe will give up his Sunday shows because of the featured spot with Tommy Dorsey's band during the summer vacation of the Baron!.... It is reported that Gene Arnold's Minstrels return to NBC the 7th.. . Fred Waring starts April 10 on "Varsity Show" .... Phil Abrahams has taken an option of Publicity Associates' "Love Doctor" for local etherizing . ... Joey Nash must change his name to "Jack Nelson" to guestar on that auto transcriptions. . . . CBS sound effects man. Bob Prescott. was rushed home the other day with a serious attack of gall-bladder and may be out for a time. . . Max Wylie's secretary in CBS continuity dept., Helen Ward, was removed from Polyclinic hospital yesterday. • • • Mickey Alpert is happy now that CBS director Brewster Morgan is well enough to begin rehearsing the scheduled airings. . . . The Lester Lees finally got their home in Connecticut and Lester's bedroom may be wall-papered with a design of dollar-bills so that when he wakes up in the morning he'll feel that he's in the money! ... Ted Hammerstein has another play with a radio background which he is planning for immediate production ... .Happy Felton opened yesterday at the Arcadia. .. .N. W. Ayer are looking for a program whicli they'll use on a series of 39 to 65 transcriptions . . . . "Spring in Kansas", by Peter Dixon, formerly of NBC's press dept., will be on Campana' s "First Nighter" Friday . . . .Al Reck, Phil Baker's brother-in-law, has gone into the transcription business ... .Walter R. Brown of Radio City and Mervin Adams of Frisco, are the engineers designated to take Seth Parker's transmitter down to Canton Island to view the eclipse, traveling 7,000 miles to do a fifteen-minute airwaver! KOCA DOES HEAVY DUTY IN TEXAS SCHOOL BEAST (Continued from Page 1) Ulmer is president, placed a remote control line, as did KFRO, the Longview station operated by James R. Curtis. Besides giving descriptions and interviews, the stations directed the movements of doctors, nurses and other workers by direct communications and rebroadcasts, remaining on the air to act as a clearing house of information. All regular broadcasts of KFRO and KOCA were discontinued for the rescue work. Rebroadcasts were handled by KGKB, Tyler, and programs were also fed to the Mutual, NBC, CBS and Texas Quality networks. Among first stations in the country outside of Texas to get lines in for eyewitness stories were the Iowa network stations, KSO and WMT. and KMA in Shenandoah, la. Bob Kaufman, KMA program director, arranged the lines by telephoning KOCA. KLZ of Denver was another to act quick, getting a connection through to Overton, Tex., and obtaining details from Jack Cox, local merchant. AFA Renominates Vallee Rudy Vallee was nominated for re-election as president of American Federation of Actors at a membership meeting held Sunday night. Annual election will be held May 8. Meeting elected a nominating committee of five which submitted the following slate for full three year term: Rudy Vallee, president; Sophie Tucker, honorary president; Joe Laurie Jr., first vice president; Ben Bernie. second vice president; Chick York, third v.p. and Harry Richman fourth v.-p.; Ralph Whitehead, executive secretary and Charles Mosconi. treasurer. Eight council nominations were also made. Shepard Named Trustee Boston — John Shepard 3rd, president of Yankee Network, has been elected a member of the Board of i Trustees of the Suffolk Law School, which is expected to become Suffolk University soon. AGENCIES GERALD H. CARSON, who has been a member of William Esty Co.'s staff since its inception four years ago, has been elected a vice-president. HUSBAND & THOMAS CO. INC. has taken new quarters at 370 Lexington Ave. WILLIAM YOST PREYER has been made executive vice-president of Vick Chemical Co. Preyer is also chairman of the Proprietary Association of America's committee on advertising. LEWIS M. WILLIAMS, formerly an executive and director of Williams & Cunnyngham, Inc., has joined the Buchen Company, advertising agency, Chicago, as vice-president.