Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1937)

RADIO DAILY: # r. c. c # ACTIVITIES APPLICATIONS RECEIVED Roberts-McNab Co., Livingston, Mont. CP for new station. 1310 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. Chester Howarth & Clarence Berger, Wallace, Id. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. HEARINGS SCHEDULED Oct. 25: George H. Payne, San Jose, Cal. CP for new station. 1440 kc, 500 watts, unlimited. Oct. 28: J. T. Griffen. Fort Smith, Ark. CP for new station. 880 kc, 1 KW., daytime. KTSM, El Paso, Tex. CP to change frequency, power, hours of operation to 1350 kc, 500 watts, unlimited. Fred M. Weil, Grand Coulee, Wash. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. West Texas Broadcasting Co., Wichita Falls, Tex. CP for new station. 1380 kc, 1 KW., unlimited. Wichita Broadcasting Co., Wichita Falls. CP for new station. 620 kc, 250 watts, 1 KW. LS., unlimited. Faith Broadcasting Co., Inc., Wichita Falls. CP for new station. 1380 kc, 1 KW., 5 KW. LS., unlimited. Chase S. Osborne, Jr., Fresno, Cal. CP for new station. 1440 kc, 500 watts, unlimited. Bend Bulletin, Bend, Ore. CP for new station. 1310 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. Waterloo Times-Tribune Publishing Co., Waterloo, la. CP for new station. 1370 kc, 100 watts, daytime. WREN, Lawrence, Kan. Auth. to transfer control of corp. from WREN Broadcasting Co., Inc., to Kansas City Star Co. 1220 kc. 1 KW., 5 KW. LS., share time with KFKU. Nov. 1: KGMB, Honolulu. Auth. to transfer control of corp. to Pacific Theaters & Supply Co., Ltd., and Fred J. Hart. 1320 kc. 1 KW., unlimited. Carl Latenser, Atchison, Kans. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, daytime. C. Bruce McConnell, Indianapolis. CP for new station. 1500 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., specified. Nov. 3: WCBA, Allentown, Pa. Vol. assignment of lie. to WSAN, Inc. 1440 kc, 500 watts, share time with WSAN. Nov. 4: Tri-City Broadcasting Co., Inc., Schenectady, N. Y. CP for new station. 950 kc, 1 KW., unlimited. Schuylkill Broadcasting Co., Pottsville, Pa. CP for new station. 580 kc, 250 watts, daytime. Pottsville News & Radio Corp., Pottsville. CP for new station. 580 kc, 250 watts, daytime. KROY, Sacramento, Cal. Mod. of CP to 1340 kc, 250 watts, 1 KW. LS., unlimited. Wm. W. Ottaway, Port Huron, Mich. CP for new station. 1370 kc, 100 watts, daytime. WMBH. Joplin, Mo. CP to change frequency and increase power to 1380 kc, 500 watts, unlimited. Valley Broadcasting Co., Youngstown. CP for new station. 1350 kc, 1 KW., unlimited. Juan Piza, San Juan, P. R. CP for new station. 1500 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. Nov. 5: Kentucky Broadcasting Corp., Louisville. CP for new station. 1210 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. Louis P. Thornton, Baker, Ore. CP for new station. 1500 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. Broward Broadcasting Co., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. CP for new station. 1370 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. Nov. 6: William C. Smith, Bogalusa, La. CP for new station. 1310 kc, 100 watts, unlimited. EXAMINERS' RECOMMENDATIONS Clark Standiford, L. S. Coburn & A. C. Sidner, Fremont, Neb. CP for new station. 1370 kc, 100 watts, unlimited, be denied. KFJZ, Fort Worth, Tex. Auth. to transfer control of corp. from R. S. Bishop to Mrs. Ruth G. Roosevelt, be granted. 1370 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. KXA, Seattle, Wash. CP to increase power to 1 KW. be granted. 760 kc, limited. Harry Schwartz, Tulsa, Okla. CP for new station. 1310 kc, 250 watts, daytime, be granted. LORETTA SEASONS, pianist-director of the "Coquettes," girls' trio on WCCO, Minneapolis, will wed Bob Anderson, pianist with the "Triple Trios," another WCCO program, on Nov. 23. Charles Ross, WCCO announcer, will be one of the ushers. Paul Roberts, baritone, is now vocalizing on the Part Barnes show every Saturday over WOR-Mutual. Rabbi Abram V. Goodman of Congregation Beth Israel, and who also is a director of the University of Texas Hillel Foundation, has started a weekly series over KNOW, Austin. Quarter-hour program is titled "Through My Study Window." Rabbi Goodman, a Harvard graduate and native Bostonian, will discuss topics of general interest as well as literary and social welfare items. Earl Harper's "Sportoscope" on WNEW has switched to a new time, 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Roy Campbell*s Ambassadors have been held over at the Hollenden Educators Postponing Demand for Radio Time (Continued from Page 1) period, believing that hour to have the largest intact family listening audience. Various organizations have been quietly conducting their surveys since first intimation of the demands became known last May. At that time John W. Studebaker, Commissioner of Education, fired opening gun at a convention of educators held in Ohio. Since then, the Writers' Congress, which this year recognized radio for the first time, the National Council of American Youth Congress, through William Hinckley, chairman, American Federation of Churches, National Advisory Council on Radio in Education, National Committee on Education by Radio and Progressive Education Association, one of the most powerful educational organizations in the country, have all pledged their support to the movement. Leaders of the movement are determined to present their three-way plan to the FCC as soon as it is deemed advisable by the group. Platform is as follows: Time on NBC, CBS and MBS on a sustaining basis, presentation of programs devoted to educational and spiritual nature, and minimum expense to be charged to educational groups. CIO Signs RCA Unit American Radio Telegraphists Ass'n, CIO unit, has signed RCA Communications on a one-year contract, affecting 1,000 employees in the U. S. and Hawaii. House, Cleveland, until Oct. 31. This choral group is aired from the Cleveland hotel twice weekly coast-tocoast. Jan Peerce will follow his second appearance on the Lucky Strike Hour, Oct. 27, with a recital at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Oct. 29. Miriam Hopkins in "P.S., She Got the Job," over CBS on Oct. 31 at 5 p.m., will be the first of the Silver Theater productions to be played in a single performance. Maryland School of Accounting, Baltimore, has established a radio broadcasting class. John Elmer, NAB president, and president of WCBM, addressed the class last week on "Opportunities in Radio Broadcasting." In a series of WMCA programs titled "Putting Them on the Spot," Mayor LaGuardia will interview each of his commissioners on their accomplishments during the Fusion regime. Programs start at 6:45 p.m. today. 470,376 Com'l Scripts Read by FTC in Year (Continued from Page 1) further study as containing representations that may have been false or misleading. These were assembled in 1,275 prospective cases (about *4 of 1 per cent of total) for further review and procedure in instances that appeared to require it. The data is contained in the annual report of FTC to Congress. WHO. Des Moines Bob Griffin, announcer, is doing a half-hour football preview on Saturdays at 1:15 p.m. Sterling Casualty Insurance Co. of Chicago has moved its program, "Sterling Starts the Day," up to 6: 15 a.m. on a Monday through Saturday basis. The Songfellows, vocalists, have turned instrumentalists and organized a Cider Jug Symphony. Monday, October 25, 1937 NEW BUSINESS Signed by Stations KCMO, Kansas City: Chevrolet, spots; Elmira Coal Co., ETs, through Potts-Turnbull ; Drene, ETs, through H. W. Kastor Co. WFMD, Frederick, Md.: Chevrolet, ETs. WPTF, Raleigh, N. C: Rexall, "Magic Hour." WFTC, Kinston, N. C: Chevrolet, ETs. WDSU, New Orleans: Elizabeth Arden ; Zenith Radio; Ford. WWL, New Orleans: Palmolive; De Soto, ETs; Chesebrough Mfg. Co.; American Gas Machines. WOKO, Albany: Chevrolet dealers, 15min. organ recital; Rexall, "Magic Hour." WGY, Schenectady: Buick, announcements, through Arthur Kudner; Bernard Perfumers, through Sel Johnson, St. Louis; Chrysler, Plymouth, announcements, and De Soto, variety show, through J. Stirling Getchell; Utica Knitting Co., announcements, through John Thomas Miller, N. Y.; Mishawaka Mfg. Co. (woolens), announcements, through Campbell-Ewald, Chicago; Penick & Ford, through J. Walter Thompson; Little Crow Milling Co., through Rogers & Smith, Chicago. Complete Xmas Disk Series Boston — "Life and Adventures of Santa Claus," series of 15 transcriptions for department store Christmas use, has been completed by KasperGordon Studios Inc. Disks are a dramatization of the book of the same name to which Kasper-Gordon acquired all rights. Book will be sold only in stores signing for the program. Kasper-Gordon also is placing its "Captains of Industry" disks for bank sponsorship on various stations, while "Memories of Hawaii" has been placed on WPRO, Providence, for a coal company. Amateur Clambake Charlie "Del" Delaney, who runs WFBL's (Syracuse) Morning Sundial, has planned an amateur clambake for Saturday mornings before 9. Plan is to allow amateurs to go on, without rehearsal of pre-judgment, and do their stuff. They can sing, dance, read poetry, play, or anything else that makes a regular "open-house" for the air. Travel Talk Series A series of travel talks in conjunction with the Travel Bureau of the Brooklyn Eagle starts Wednesday on WNEW. iVEW— I T'S "IT" I IV RADIO The program that radio stars and radio fans will keep their ears on Gene Inge's 6*TAKE THE AIR" The truth about radio programs Hear it Monday Night 8 P. M. PST KFWB 950 Kc. IT'S SENSATIONAL AND NEW!