Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

RADIO DAILY: Thursday. March 25. 1937 F. C. C. ACTIVITIES '.Washington Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY! EXAMINER'S RECOMMENDATIONS Falls Cify Broadcasting Corp., Falls City. Neb. CP for new station. 1310 kc, 100 watts, unlimited, be denied. H. W. Wilson and Ben Farmer, Wilson. N. C. CP for new station. 1310 kc, 100 watts, daytime, be granted. WBAX. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. CP for mod. of lie. 1210 kc. 100 watts, unlimited, be granted. APPLICATIONS RECEIVED WFLA-WSUN, Clearwater, Fla. Mod. of License requesting that license of stations be severed to form two stations, both to operate specified time. KTBS, Shreveport. Mod. of license to change frequency and power. 620 kc, 500 watts night, 1 Kw. day, unlimited. WILL, Urbana, 111. Mod. of CP for directional antenna and move of transmitter. WHP, Harrisburg, Pa. License to cover CP for new antenna and move of transmitter. KVOO. Tulsa, Okla. CP to change hours of operation to unlimited, and install directional antenna. WOWO. Fort Wayne. Ind. Mod. of Lie to change hours of operation to unlimited. Galesburg Broadcasting Co.. Galesburg. 111. CP for new station. 1500 kc, 250 watts, daytime. KMO, Tacoma, Wash. License to cover CP for increase in power, new equipment and move of transmitter. HEARINGS SCHEDULED April 30: F. W. Borton. Coral Gables, Fla. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, unlimited. Roberts-McNab Co.. Bozeman, Mont. CP for new station. 1420 kc. 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. WMTN. St. Paul. Minn. Mod. of lie 1360 kc, 250 watts, unlimited. Earl Weir, St. Petersburg. Fla. CP for new station. 1370 kc. 100 watts, unlimited. May 3: I. Leslie Doss. Sarasota, Fla. CP for new station. 1390 kc. 250 watts, daytime. KLZ Broadcasting Co.. Denver. CP for new station. 1210 kc. 100 watts, 250 wa'ts LS, unlimited. Mile High Radio Corp.. Denver, Colo. CP for new station. 1210 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. May 4: C. P. Sudweeks. Spokane. CP for new station. 950 kc, 500 watts, 1 Kw. LS., unlimited. Clarence A. Berger and Saul S. Freeman. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. CP for new ^ia ion. 1200 kc, 100 watts, daytime. KGKO. Wichita Falls, Tex. Mod. of CP. 570 kc, 1 Kw., 5 Kw. LS.. unlimited, directional antenna. May 10: T E. Kirksey, Waco, Tex. CP for new station. 930 kc. 250 watts, 500 watts LS., unlimited. Earl Yates, Las Cruces, N. Mex. CP for new station. 930 kc, 500 watts, daytime. May 14: Louisville Broadcasting Co., Louisville. CP for new station. 1210 kc. 250 watts, daytime. Louisville Times Co.. Louisville, Ky. CP for new station. 1210 kc, 100 watts, unlimited. * IPCOMOT1CN * 217 CONTESTS-OFFERS USED ON CBS IN 1936 (Continued from Page 1) Remington portable typewriter combination ofTer. Colgate-PalmolivePeet ran the largest prize contest on behalf of its Palmolive soap. Twenty free trips to Europe or $1,000 in cash were awarded plus 100,000 complexion brushes valued at $1 each. Chrysler ran the second largest contest on its Ed Wynn-Plymouth program with weekly awards of a Dodge, Plymouth, or De Soto sedan. N. Y. U. Series on WLTH WLTH has started a 5 p.m. series direct from the studios of New York University. The programs, sponsored by Menorah, the largest Hebrew Students' organization in the country, are presented as a cultural service to the Jewish listeners of WLTH. Commercial Manager Royal Penny were the guests of the Fisheries in Morehead City, at which time final plans were made for the broadcast series. Educational on Milk New Jersey Milk Control Board institutes an educational series over WPG, Atlantic City, to stimulate milk sales. Mrs. Oakley Cooke, consumer expert of the board, will talk on the part milk performs in maintaining health and living conditions for country and city dwellers. Amos Kirby, farms news commentator, will also be heard on the weekly programs. 8 C6S STOCKHOLDERS APPROVE SPLIT-UP (Continued from Page 1) ed treasurer as of April 1, on which date he will join CBS. Mefford R. Runyon, who has been vice-president and treasurer, is relinquishing the treasurership in order to devote all his time to general executive work. White has been treasurer and business manager of News Week. He is a native of Washington, D. C, and an alumnus of George Washington University. He came to New York in 1921 and since that time has been identified with several publishing businesses. Prior to his connection with News Week he was assistant to the president of Union News Co., treasurer of Literary League of America and treasurer and general manager of Stage Magazine. Bob Buckley Managing Rambeau N. Y. Office Robert Buckley has been officially appointed manager of the William G. Rambeau Co.. station representatives, New York office, succeeding Earle Bachman, who has resigned to join Furgason & Aston, another station representative firm here. Richard Buckley, brother of Robert, has been transferred to the New York staff from the Rambeau WOR office, which has been discontinued. SAN ANTONIO Corwin Riddell is the new program director at KTSA, the voice of The Light station. He was formerly with WO AI.... Tony Bissan of KMAC infos that the station recently has installed a new Western Electric transmitter of 250 power watts Frank Stewart, former production manager at KABC, is now at KMAC. . . . .Charles Belfi is the new announcer at KABC. .. .Forrest Fort of the KABC sales force, has gone to KCMC, Texarkana . . . . K O N O chief engineer George Ing has returned to duties after an appendix operation. .. .Monte Magee, familiar to listeners of WLW and WOAI, now does a daily program via KONO Lloyd Rosenblume of WOAI is back from a trade trip to the lower Rio Grande Valley ... .Mrs. Mack Rogers, wife of the orchestra leader, was killed in an auto accident near Columbia, Tex., Sunday night, March 14. KTSA recently started a new program, "Dude Ranch Nights." WWJ's "Radio Extra" On the theory that "what's good for its advertisers is good for it," WWJ, The Detroit News station, is broadcasting at 7:30 each Thursday evening a fast moving show of unusual design, called "The Radio Extra." It is meant primarily as promotion for The Detroit News, but is so constructed that it does a good job of entertaining as well. Interlude music, directed by Ole Foerch, is descriptive of the turning over of pages to the several departments to be featured. Recent interviews have been with Leslie Howard and Martyn Green, comedian of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, who conversed with Russell McLauchlin, News drama critic. Several musical organizations, including a Russian orchestra and a Y.M.C.A. banjo band, have appeared. Different staff writers discuss the stories they are covering, such as strikes, politics, and the war in Spain. The whole show is topped off with "Oddities from the News," read in character. Promotion for WPTF Show Raleigh, N. C. — Completing the first week of its presentation to WPTF listeners, the N. C. Fisheries, Inc., Morehead City, now plans an elaborate sales promotion campaign in connection with the station's newest feature program, "The Carolina Coast Tenor". Clayborne Mangum, tenor, is featured, with Lucy Biebl, young pianist composer, as accompanist. Following the first week presentations, the station has received numerous fan replies testifying to its popularity. The sponsor plans to distribute photographs of its stars with its products and to display placards in dealers' show windows and on counters. Prior to the initial program on March 16, Mangum, Mrs. Biebl, Leslie Biebl, her announcer-husband, and Four-Leaf Clover Bulb Iowa Soap Co. is aiming to make every listener to its early morning show over KYW, Philadelphia, a lucky one. And, at the same time, promote sales for their cleanser. Giving away a four-leaf clover bulb for box top plus ten cents to cover cost of mailing. New Disk Equipment at KLO Ogden, Utah— KLO has installed new high fidelity transcriptions apparatus. D'Orr Cozzens, supervising engineer of the station, directed the job. Senators on Disks Des Moines — Senators Guy C. Gillette and Clyde F. Herring oi Iowa are each making two transcriptions a month in Washington so they can be heard over the Iowa network on alternate weeks by Iowa constituents. Their talks feature salient legislation that affects Iowa. This is an extension of the Iowa network's policy of getting Washington commentary first hand, following the transcription series each week by Richard Wilson, Washington correspondent for the Des Moines Register. Governor Nelson G. Kraschel is also heard on the Iowa network each week from his offices in the statehouse. Page Prof. Quiz Norfolk, Va.— John W. New, sales manager of WTAR, innocently appeared in a series of talks which staff members are delivering on radio before the local Girl Scouts. Completing his notes in ten minutes, he announced that he would attempt to answer any guestion they might care to ask. First guery was "Don't the network sponsors object to putting announcements between their programs?" Kids are from 12 to 16 years old.