Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

2 Monday, January 24, 1938 RADIO DAILY Vol. 3, No. 16 Mon., Jan. 24, 1938 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. Merser eau, Treasurer and General Manager; Chester B. Bahn, Vice-President; Charles A. Alicoate, Secretary; M. H. Shapiro, Associate Editor Terms (Post free) United States outside of Greater New York, one year, $5; 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. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, Caiif. — Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. Entered as second class matter April 5. 1937, at the postoffice at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL ( Saturday , Jan. 22) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANCE Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Tel. & Tel 145% 145% 145Vs — % CBS A 21 Vs 21' 8 21 V8 — % Crosley Radio 958 95% 95% — Vg Cen. Electric . ... 42% 41% 42% + % North American . . 19% 19% 19% — % RCA Common 6% 6% 65 8 RCA First Pfd 48% 48% 485/g — % Stewart Warner . 10’% 10% 10’% Zenith Radio 16 155% 16 + ’A NEW YORK CURB EXCHANCE Nat. Union Radio % % % — 1/16 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Stromberg Carlson 6’/g 7% "Way Down East" ETs Back on 13 Stations Sterling Products (Haley’s M-O, Danderine) on Jan. 31 will return the “Way Down East” transcriptions to the air over 13 stations (WNAC, WOR, WCAE, WGAR, WGN, WHO, WBEN, WCAU, WSB, KFI, WHAM, WFAA, WFFA, WFBR) . Quarterhour disks will be aired Mondays through Fridays. Agnes Moorehead, Karl Swenson, and Wilmer Walter are in the cast. Air Features produced the series. Blackett Sample Hummert is the agency. Tino Rossi for Films Tino Rossi, French singing star who arrived in Montreal recently for an American tour and who starts an NBC-Blue network series today at 7:45-8 p.m., Mondays and Fridays, sails for London in several months to appear in his first English-speaking film and also to complete a French picture. He will then return to this country for movie work. BINCHAMTON— NEW YORK W N B F Member Columbia Broadcasting System with special New York City wire for test programs and auditions in this important Southern New York Market. 366 Madison Ave., N Y C — Mu 2-5767. ☆ THE WEEI\ IN EAEIC ☆ . . . Ruthrauff & Ryan Billings ( Continued from Page 1) NBC and CBS broke ground or laid cornerstones for new edifices in Los Angeles. With more than 90 per cent of the affiliated web outlets signing contracts as per IRNA plan, additional deals are being made between locals of the AFM and stations . . . New Orleans and a few other spots have some difficulties, with the southern city having two network outlets under threat of a strike . . . this was averted through the offices of Pres. Weber of the AFM and another effort will be made to solve the question of the closed or open shop . . . CBS diverted commercial time to educational features, following a meeting of the newly created Adult Education Board . . . WOR will go in for experimentation with ultra high frequencies . . . William Roux, formerly with the NBC sales promotion department, joined Hearst Radio Inc. as promotion manager. . . . Revised NAB proposals have been submitted by the reorganization committee, voting upon it to take place at the annual meeting next month in Washington . . . Texas Broadcasters Ass’n endorsed the proposals in principle at a meeting in Dallas . . . also, all Texas stations were urged to attend the NAB convention and take an active interest in the reorganization plans . . . FCC denied petition of Capper Publications to transfer control of KCKN without the usual hearing . . . Revised baseball schedule for Chicago stations and other rules and regulation changes were adopted by the five outlets which have concluded contracts with the American League . . . CIO in Philly threatens a boycott on General Foods if Boake Carter is sponsored by that Corp. Networks, et al, are making a survey of actor conditions in order to better talk things over with the AFRA . . . the two major companies have committees, as well as the AAA A for the advertising agencies. . . AFRA expects to get down to business soon, most of the talks to date having been preliminary conferences. . . . Zenith Radio plans a big advertising campaign in connection with a new gadget to be marketed shortly. . . . FCC Chairman McNinch announced that a new policy would seek to curb “monopoly” in the industry and in the future, the Commission would refuse to grant additional permits to those already operating a station in the same city . . . AAAA annual meet will be held April 20-23 in White Sulphur Springs . . . Rockwell O’Keefe booking agency and Consolidated Radio Artists (holding all NBC band contracts) formed a pool on the coast with the former to represent the latter in the territory . . . six northwest stations form an organization . . . Canada considers raising the receiving set license fee to obtain an additional million dollars in revenue. . . . A. T. & T. Test Series On WMAS, Springfield FCC Hearing Ordered On WLW Power Renewal ( Continued from Page 1) are announcements — one 50 words, the other 100 words — and the third program is a five-minute “true life drama” featuring long distance telephoning. Commercial copy is held to a minimum in the skit, being mostly a suggestion on telephoning long distance, and noting the difference in night rates. Programs are under the direction of F. Turner Cooke, station’s program director, and are made up of local live talent. ( Continued from Page 1 ) Frank R. McNinch gave Payne authority to order hearing without approval of fellow Commissioners. Under this rule, Payne has jurisdiction over all experimental stations. Philip Morris to Renew Philip Morris, through The Biow Co., on Feb. 12 will renew its CBS show on more than 50 stations from coast-to-coast for another 52-week run. Program, “Johnny Presents” is heard on Saturdays, 8:30-9 p.m. CBC Financial Surplus Montreal — Canadian Broadcasting Corp. will show a financial surplus for the past year, according to Transport Minister C. H. Howe. He said there would be a surplus on both revenue and capital accounts. Dewey Long in New Post Dewey H. Long, formerly sales manager of WBT, Charlotte, has been appointed Radio Sales representative in Birmingham, a newly established office in the Protective Life Bldg. New WHK-WCLE News Editor Cleveland — Lewis Sisk has been named news editor of WHK-WCLE, succeeding Milton Hill, former news editor and publicity assistant, who has gone to Florida. King Again Directs Playhouse Jean Paul King will again direct the Provincetown Playhouse, Provincetown, Mass., this summer. It will be his second season. ♦ ♦ 2 NBC Shows for WCKY Cincinnati — Two more NBC-Red network shows, “Lorenzo Jones” and “Waltz Time,” both for Sterling Products, join the WCKY schedule Feb. 14 and 18, respectively. WOPI "The Voice of the Appalachians” BRISTOL TENNESSEE VIRGINIA ♦ commG and goiiig G. W. GRIGNON, manager of WISN. Milwaukee. and D A. WELLER, chief engineer, went to Washington last week for a hearing relative to the station. ANDREWS SISTERS return to New York this week from Chicago, where they have been singing on the Wrigley show, to do a program of their own. E. H. SCOTT, Chicago deluxe radio manufacturer, to New York this week on business. LAWSON ZERBE, radio actor who appears on many shows, to Syracuse University on Saturday to address the Radio Script writing class. GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON will broadcast tomorrow from Chicago, with Wednesday’s show coming from his Washington, D. C., studios. IREENE WICKER, the Singing Lady, will do her Wednesday show from Rochester in connection with three important Rochester events. WHAM is dedicating its new tower, celebrating its 10th anniversary, and the city is celebrating Youth Week. BERT LAWSON, CBS staff photographer, is in Lake Tlacid today for pictures of Kate Smith and Ted Collins skiing around the winter playground. PAUL KENNEDY, radio editor of the Cincinnati Post, is in Hollywood for look-around. MRS. JOSEF PASTERNACK, wife of the musical director of Vick's “Open House,” has returned to New York from the coast, where she spent a month with her husband. HARRY MAIZLISH, manager of KFWB, Hollywood, left New York last Saturday on his return west, with a Chicago stopover. MARTIN BLOCK of WNEW flew to Miami yesterday for a week’s fishing. BILL PERRY, WOR announcer is on his way to California, where he will handle the Eddy Duchin-Elizabeth Arden program for a couple of months. STUART F. DOYLE, Australian radio man, is coast-bound to confer with Herbert Ebenstein, head of Atlas Radio, on their five-year deal. Howard Marshall on NBC Howard Marshall, BBC commentator, returns to the NBC airlanes in a new series titled “They’re Saying in England” starting Jan. 28 at 9:15-9:30 p.m. over NBC-Blue. Programs will come from England. FCC ACTIVITIES KPOF, Denver. Mod. of license to increase power to 1 KW. Galesburg Broadcasting Co., Galesburg, 111. CP for new station. 1500 kc., 250 watts, daytime. KXA, Seattle. CP to increase power to 1 KW. 760 kc., limited. APPLICATION DENIED Richard Field Lewis, Oakland, Cal. CP for new station. 1160 kc., 1 KW., daytime. OF HOLLYWOOD DAREDEVILS Daredevils of Hollywood is a new, copyrighted, transcribed radio feature. It offers 26 quarterhours, packed with thrilling experiences of Hollywood movie-stunt men. Ideal for weekly broadcast. Write now for full information. RADIO PROGRAMS DIVISION Walter Biddick Co. 1151 S. Broadway Los Anoeles