Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

6 RADIO DAILY Monday, March 29, 1937 F. C. C. ACTIVITIES Washington Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY — ^ APPLICATIONS RECEIVED Capitol Broadcasting Co.. Inc.. Raleigh. N. C. CP ior new station. 1210 kc. 250 watts, daytime. Metropolitan Radio Service. Inc.. Montgomery. Ala. CP ior new station. 1570 kc, 1 Kw.. unlimited. Warren B. Worcester. San Diego, Cal. CP ior new station. 1400 kc, 250 watts, 1 Kw. LS., unlimited. HEARINGS SCHEDULED March 29: luan Piza. San luan. P.R. CP ior new station. 1500 kc. 100 watts 250 watts LS unlimited. Robert Raymond McCulla, Oak Park. 111. CP ior new station. 1500 kc. 100 watts, daytime. West Texas Broadcasting Co.. Wichita Falls. Tex. CP ior new station. 1380 kc, 1 Kw., unlimited. Wichita Broadcasting Co., Wichita Falls. CP for new station. 620 kc, 250 watts, lKw. LS.. unlimited. Faith Broadcasting Co.. Inc., Wichita Falls. CP for new station. 1380 kc. 1 Kw. 5 Kw. LS. unlimited. March 31: Wm. W. Ottaway. Port Huron. Mich. CP for new station. 1370 kc. 250 watts, daytime. Frazier Reams, Mansiield. O. CP ior new station. 1370 kc. 100 watts, daytime. April 1: Paciiic Acceptance Corp., San Diego. CP ior new station. 1200 kc, 100 watts, daytime. April 2: Charles Porter and Edward E. Eversole, Festus, Mo. CP ior new station. 1420 kc. 100 wafts, daytime. April 3: Salinas Newspapers. Inc.. Salinas. Cal. CP ior new station. 1390 kc. 250 watts, daytime. May 5: George W. Young. St. Paul. CP for new station. 920 kc. 1 Kw.. 5 Kw. LS.. unlimited. Natl. Battery Broadcasting Co.. St. Paul. CP for new station. 920 kc. 1 Kw.. unlimited. Northwest Publications. Inc., Duluth. CP ior new station. 580 kc. 250 watts, daytime. National Battery Broadcasting Co.. St. Paul. CP ior new station. 580 kc. 1 Kw., unlimited. Northern Broadcasting Co.. Traverse City. Mich. CP ior new station. 830 kc, 500 watts, daytime. May 28: West Va. Newspaper Publishing Co., Clarksburg, W. Va. CP ior new station. 1250 kc, 1 Kw.. daytime. May 18: KYW, Philadelphia. CP ior increase in power, requested ass. 1020 kc, 50 Kw.. unlimited. May 25: Nathan N. Bauer. Miami. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, unlimited. June 1: Petersburg Newspaper Corp., Petersburg. Va. CP ior new station. 1210 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS.. unlimited. June 2: Provo Broadcast Co.. Provo. Utah. CP ior new station. 1210 kc. 100 watts, unlimited. Radiotel Corp.. San Diego. CP ior new station. 920 kc, 500 watts, unlimited. EXAMINER'S RECOMMENDATIONS Radio Enterprises, Luikin, Tex. CP ior new station. 1310 kc. 100 watts, daytime, be denied. Red Lands Broadcasting Association, Luikin. Tex. CP ior new station. 1310 kc. 100 watts, daytime, be granted. MILTON WEINBERC agency, for Sweetheart Soap, has signed for a weekly 15-minute program on NBC Coast red net to sell Sweetheart Soap. Thomas Conrad Sawyer will be observer and commentator, direct his appeal particularly to women. Starts April 16, 11:30 to 11:45 a.m. PST. Inglewood Park (Advertising Arts agency) is doing a half hour version of famous operas on KFWB and Southern Cal net, Tuesday nights. Julian M. Oliver and Florence Roberts signed to sing leads in Aida. Standard Radio has signed its library service in for WEBR and WBEN, Buffalo, WFTC, Kinston, N. C; KSJS, Salina, Kansas and WKOK. LaJunta, Colo. For the next three weeks, Owel Drug Co.'s exposition plugging series, "Treasure Island," will be aired from Los Angeles NBC studios. Cliff Engels, "voice of the exposition," and music, here from San Francisco. Program goes out on Pacific Coast Red net. NBC enlarging its publicity staff in Hollywood, bringing Noel Corbett down from San Francisco, and upping Frances Scully from general staff work to have charge of fashions, fan mags and pix. Staff recently moved into new quarters in building vacated by J. Walter Thompson radio department. Clarence Muse, who was screen tested for Porky part in "Gone with the Wind," has signed with Paramount for an important role in "The Barrier." Ray Appleby, production manager for KEHE, Orange net outlet, who has been in the hospital for the week, has taken a sudden turn for the worse, Bob LeMond, station announcer, offered himself for the blood transfusion which was hurriedly ordered. Warren Pearl to Coast Warren H. Pearl, office manager of Rockwell-O'Keefe, Inc.. leaves on Thursday for the west coast office to confer with Tom Rockwell on business matters. Danville Tabernacle On Full Virginia Net Richmond — Sunday morning service from the Barber Tabernacle, Danville, aired for the past four years over WBTM in Danville has gone on the full Virginia Broadcasting System for a 13-week period. Other stations in the network are WPHR, Richmond; WLVA, Lynchburg; WCHV, Charlottesville, and WGH, Newport News. WIP Promotes Two Philadelphia — Ed Wallace is the new production director at WIP, stepping up from night supervisor. John Facenda, announcer, has been elevated to night supervisor. Fast Work Covering Crash Pittsburgh — Radio moved rapidly to cover the TWA plane crash near here last Friday. Hardly had the news been flashed than Columbia station WJAS had shipped their equipment to the spot and Chief Engineer Walter McCoy, with Operators Jack Merdian, Fred Thomas and Walter Glaus, began setting up the equipment. Prepared to broadcast by short wave if the regular lines failed, the crew worked hard and Newscaster Beckley Smith was on the air with a detailed account. The network picked up. Darrell Martin, PostGazette's pioneer radio editor and an aviation authority, was also on hand quickly and, in addition to broadcasting, devoted his entire column to his analysis of the crash. MEMBERS of the cast of Dodge "News with Music," which took a temporary vacation from WBBM airlanes yesterday, will remain on at same time, 12-1 p.m., CST for a new sponsor, Nelson Brothers Storage. Cast is composed of John Harrington, commentator; Cheri McKay, songstress; the Four Grenadiers and Carlton Kelsey's ork. Earl George is the latest newcomer to the "Modern Cinderella" cast and also the "Mortimer Gooch" show. Herb Futran, script writer of "Sunbrite Junior Nurse Corps," flies to N. Y. every fortnight to confer with Angelo Patri, child guidance authority. Edith Davis of "Betty and Bob" will have two vacations this summer. The CBS actress will make a jaunt south before taking a trip abroad a few weeks later. Florence George, pretty NBC songstress here, is under option to MGM. Most of the radio scribes took a jaunt to Waukegan on Tuesday to watch Jack Benny plant a tree in his home town and be feted in general, along with his Jell-o cast. Arch Oboler, writer of NBC's Lights Out, back in Chi after eastern honeymoon trip. Wynthrop Orr has joined the NBC Chi radio production staff, succeeding Vance McCune, who is to tour as member of a blackface team. Irma Lyon and Jerry Marlowe, NBC girl and boy piano duo, are playing the Palace theater here this week. Albert Kircher agency handling the new early morning Hooker Glass & Paint show on WMAQ. Douglas Fleming, WCFL announcer, in a jam with Mack truck while driving. New P. & G. Series On NBC Pacific Net {Continued from Page 1) tising Inc. placed the account also handle 11 other radio programs for P. & G. Blackett-Sample-Hummert Inc., and H. W. Kastor Advertising & Sons Inc., both of Chicago, and Pedlar & Ryan Inc., service the remaining five. Program Previewed What is believed to be the first time a radio series has been introduced with a preview program took place Friday night, when WMCA introduced its new feature, "Warning Signals," with a 10 p.m. broadcast on the Intercity network. The new serial, written by Burt ! McMurtrie and Geraldine Garrick. has its official opening tomorrow at 9 p.m. and will be heard weekly on Tuesday night WIP Improvements Philadelphia — Removal of WIP's transmitter from the Gimbel store to a center-city site at 21st and Hamilton also involve the building of two additional new studios and a new master control, the present one being broken up into individual control rooms for the three main studios. With the RCA 1,000watt transmitter and new single mast antenna, more than $60,000 will be expended. Al Cormier is the managerial brains of the station, which is owned by Benedict Gimbel, Jr.