Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

2 Monday, February 7, 1938 RADIO DAILY ☆ THE WEEK IN R4DIC ☆ . . . Webs Soft-Pedal Billings (Continued from Page 1) Vol. 3. No. 26 Mon., Feb. 7, 1938 Price 5 Cts. /OHN 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. \V. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau. Treasurer and General Manager; Chester R. 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. Calif. — 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, Feb. 5) — — — NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Tel. b Tel 134 130% 133 Vi + 1% C8S A 19% 18% 19i/4 + l'/4 CBS B 19 18% 19 + 1 Gen. Electric 39% 38% 39% 4 1 % RCA Common 6% 6 6% + Vs RCA First Pfd. 46% 45 V2 45% — 1% Stewart Warner 9% 8% 9% + % Westinghouse 94 90% 93% + 2% Zenith Radio 13% 12% 13% -j % OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Stromberg Carlson 6 7 Blackett to London Chicago — Hill Blackett, president of Blackett-Sample-Hummert, has sailed for Europe with a view to opening an office in London. Blackett sailed on Conte De Savoia and goes to Italy first. Kirby Hawkes, radio director of B.S.H., who is sailing for England on Feb. 12 will meet Blackett in Europe. Norman Siegel to Hollywood Cleveland — Norman Siegel, radio editor of The Cleveland Press and Newspaper Enterprise Association, left Friday for Hollywood for a fiveweek stay. He will do a series on radio and the movies while on the coast. Siegel has just finished a television series. Renewing Phil Baker Gulf Refining Co., through Young & Rubicam Inc., on Feb. 20 will renew Phil Baker show for another 52-week run on 62 CBS stations, Sundays, 7:30-8 p.m. KMMJ Clay Center, Neb. The favorite family station which the studios will be working under license agreements . . . AFRA is continuing its negotiations with the networks, the latter seeming to favor this affiliate of the AFL as against other organizations if its employes are to be unionized . . .some 65 nations were represented at the opening of the International Communications Conference in Cairo (Egypt) on Feb. 2 . . . Bill in Congress asked for a Pan-American station to promote goodwill. . . . Eddie Cantor leaves the Texaco show to start for Camels on March 28 on CBS, with Benny Goodman orchestra continuing and Jack Oakie dropping out . . . Atlantic Refining and Kellogg Company will use the baseball school idea such as the latter used in Chicago last season . . . both these accounts, handled by N. W. Ayer & Son, will have hookups of their own for the league baseball games to be sponsored, the Atlantic Refining group of outlets Governor of Tennessee Praises Radio's Fairness ( Continued from Page 1) sage to the people without fear of editorial distortion. “When a news agency deliberately indulges in slime and low falsification, it is time to engage some decent medium for giving the public correct information,” said Browning. “Thank God for a medium through which this can be said to the people of Tennessee.” Browning had previously resorted to radio to talk to his constituents on intra-state politics. WTAM is Moving Today Into $300,000 Studios Cleveland — Studios of WTAM, Cleveland’s 50,000-watt station, managed and operated by NBC, move into new $300,000 location in the National Broadcasting Co. Building here today. Vernon H. Pribble, station manager, has set dedication of the studios during the week of Feb. 14. Entertainments, dinners and special programs, with various organizations participating, will be held during WTAM’s housewarming week. The station now occupies four floors in a 22-story building at Ninth & Superior. Latest technical and design equipment makes WTAM studios the finest NBC broadcasting plant in the country for its size, according to J. J. Arnone, NBC construction engineer, who was also in charge of building Radio City studios. Many of NBC’s chief executives will participate in the dedication ceremonies on Feb. 19. R. B. McAlister Married Lubbock, Tex. — R. B. McAlister, sports commentator on KFYO, and Marjorie Tunnell were married recently. being mostly in Penn, for its minor league coverage and Kellogg working out an Eastern as well as strong midwest setup . . . WLS going in for a new $250,000 transmitter . . . ban on Texas race horse dope resulted in WSM, Nashville, getting a break . . . WHAS dedicated its new transmitter. . . . RADIO DAILY’S Critics’ Forum reveals the likes and dislikes of important radio editors and writers throughout the country . . . questions commented upon and appearing the past week in R.D. included favorable answers to radio’s progress, how shows can be improved, newscasts, educational programs and attitude toward electrical transcriptions. . . . Broadcast Sales Managers group from the East met in Albany and talked mostly about ways and means of utilizing the local musician situations and “turning these drains on the treasury into cash at the boxoffice.” New Sales, News Heads Named by KWTO-KGBX (Continued from Page 1) national accounts, and appointment of Floyd M. Sullivan as news editor is announced by Ralph D. Foster, station manager. Pearson organized the station’s news department and had been handling it in addition to his other duties. His new post, however, will require full time attention. Sullivan is a veteran newspaper editor and KWTO-KGBX commentator. Mutual System to Carry 3 Hours of Coast Shows Mutual will take three hours of evening shows from the Coast beginning Feb. 27. Some of the sustainings will be programs that are being resumed and will include “Hawaii calls from Honolulu,” Brown Sisters, vocal trio; George Fischer’s “Hollywood Whispers,” a revival program; Ozzie Nelson and others. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra heard opposite the NBC Toscanini programs will include guest stars such as Albert Spalding, violinist, and Richard Bonelli, tenor. cominc and GOinc EARLE C. ANTHONY, head of KFI-KECA, Los Angeles, sailed Saturday on the Normandie for Europe. He is accompanied by MRS. ANTHONY. ROY H. THOMSON, president of Northern Broadcasting Co. Ltd., operating CFCH, North Bay; CJKL, Kirkland Lake, and CKGB, Timmins, Canada, has returned to Canada following a month’s vacation in Florida. LOREN WATSON of AMP transcriptions arrived in Ottawa today to attend the Canadian Broadcasters Ass’n annual convention. JOE WEED, head of Weed b Co., station reps, left Friday for Canada combining the visit with attendance at the CAB convention in Ottawa and a call at the All-Canada Radio Facilities Ltd. in Toronto. ADELAIDE KLEIN, actress, sails Feb. 11 for her first vacation in years. Will spend three weeks in Mexico. GOGO DELYS returns from the coast late this month. ARTHUR KUDNER of the advertising agency bearing his name sailed Saturday on the Normandie for Europe. CARLO BUTI. Italian singer, sailed Saturday on the Conte di Savoia for Italy. LINTON WELLS, "Magic Key of RCA” commentator, left Friday on an air and rail journey to the capitals of two Latin-American countries and to the west coast. He will interview foreign correspondents in Guatemala City, Feb. 13; Mexico City, Feb. 20, and San Francisco, Feb. 27. MRS. WELLS accompanies him on the trip. WINIFRED CECIL, after singing on the CocaCola “Songshop" program last Friday night, sailed Saturday for Italy, where she is to sing at La Scala in Milan. NORMAN SIEGEL, radio editor of Cleveland Press and NEA, has gone to Hollywood to do a radio-movie series. JIM MEYERSON of the Oklahoma network, left New York on Saturday to return West. JACK ARTHUR, emcee, and SYLVIA FROOS. EVELYN CASE, VANDY CAPE, SID GARY and JACQUES ROTH sailed on the Normandie last Saturday as entertainers on the 22-day cruise to Rio de Janeiro. PAT WEAVER of Young b Rubicam arrives in New York early this week from the coast to discuss future plans on current shows. JOHN T. CAREY and HERB SHERMAN, sales managers of Chicago’s WIND and WJJD, respectively, are on an eastern trip. KEN ELLINGTON, special events announcer at WBBM, Chicago, flew to New York for weekend visif. ELLA LOGAN leaves the Chez Paree, Chicago, on Friday for Miami, with LOU HOLTZ going into the Chi spot. J. KELLY SMITH, general manager of Radio Sales Inc., off to visit Birmingham, Charlotte and Washington. MURRAY GRABHORN of Hearst’s International Radio Sales has returned east from the coast. ANNE SEYMOUR of “Story of Mary Marlin” is in New York from Chicago for a week’s visit. AIL AN COURTNEY (Singing M. C. with a personal following of 400.000 buyers) announces that on February 19, 1938 he is leaving WNEW after 2% years — completing 9% years of record-breaking performances in radio — and is now ready to negotiate direct with sponsors and agencies. NICK KENNY— N. Y. Daily Mirror “Alan Courtney’s program is one of my favorites.’’ ALTON COOK— N. Y. World-Telegram “Alan Courtney brings a striking change in master of ceremonies style." BEN CROSS— N. Y. 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