Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Monday. October 24, 1949 Vol. 49, No. 15 Monday, Oct. 24, 1949 lOCts. JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher FRANK BURKE : : : : : Editor MARVIN KIRSCH : Business Manager Published daily except Saturdays. Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, (18), N. Y., by Radio Daily Corp., J. W. Alicoate, President. and Publisher; Donald M Mersereau, Treasurer and General Manager; Marvin Kirsch. Vice-President; Chester B. Bahn, Vice-President; Charles A. Alicoj^e, Secretary. Terms (Postage free) United States (other than California) $10.00 one year; California, $15.00. Foreign, $15.00. Address all communications to Radio Daily. 1501 Broadway, New York (18), N. Y. Phone Wisconsin 7-6336, 7-6337. 7-6338. Cable address : Radaily, New York. WEST COAST OFFICES Allen Kushner, Manager 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone: Gladstone 8436 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older. Chief 6417 Dahlonega Rd. Phone: Wisconsin 3271 CHICAGO BUREAU Hal Tate, Manager. 360 No. Michigan Ave. Phone: Randolph 6-6650 SOUTHWEST BUREAU Paul Girard, Manager Tower Petroleum Bldg., Dallas, Texas Phone: Riverside 3518-9 Entered as second class matter, April 5, 1937, at the postomce at New York, N. Y., ••nder the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL = (October 21) — NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE High Low Close ABC 8 V2 8 Vg 83 s Admiral Corp 283/8 28 28 Am. Tel. 8. Tel. ...144% 144 144 CBS A 24'/2 23'/2 24Y8 CBS B 24'/2 233/8 24V2 Philco 30'/8 30 30 Philco pfd 81 1/2 81'/2 81 Vl RCA Common .... 13 1 234 12% RCA 1st pfd 72 72 72 Stewart-Warner ... 12% 12>/2 12'/2 Westinghouse . . . . 293/8 283,4 29% Westinghouse pfd. 99 98% 98^4 Zenith Radio 29'/4 28'/2 28V2 NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. 145/8 14'/4 14% Nat. Union Radio .3 3 3 OVER THE COUNTER DuMont Lab 143/8 Stromberg-Carlson 13 U. S. Television % WCAO (Baltimore) 16 WJR (Detroit) 7% Net Chg. + Va — % — % + 1% + l'/4 — '/4 + Va V2 Va + % Va % + % 15% 141/4 % * COflllNG AND GOING * PIERRE CRENESSE, director of the French Broadcasting System in North America, and CLAUDE VILLEDIEU, diplomatic correspondent for RDF now working with the UN, left on Saturday for Louisiana, where they'll tape recording for rebroadcast in France. J. LEONARD REINSCH, managing director of WSB, Atlanta, paid a call late last week at the offices of NBC, with which the station is affiliated. BERT WOOD, program manager of RCA Recorded Program Service, is bock from Hollywood, where he directed the latest Tex Beneke recording data for Thesaurus. CONNIE DESMOND, Columbia network sportscaster, has returned from Ann Arbor, where on Saturday he broadcast the game between Michigan and Minnesota. DOROTHY HEALEY, secretary to Walter Scott in the sales department of NBC, spent the week-end in Boston. HANLEY STAFFORD, the "Daddy" to Fanny Brice's "Baby Snooks," arrived in New York Friday following a vacation in Europe. Show returns to the air November 8. TONY MARTIN and his wife, CYD CHARISSE, arrived in New York by plane last Thursday. They'll spend a few days here, then will open an engagement on Wednesday at the Latin Casino in Philadelphia. EDGAR BELL, of Oklahoma Publishing Co., operators of WKY, Oklahoma City, was welcomed last week at the headquarters of NBC, of which WKY is an affiliate. ROBERT J. BURTON, vice-president of BMI in charge of publisher relations, has returned from Pinehurst, N. C, where he attended the meeting of District 4, of the NAB. ANNE C. BALDWIN, publicity director of WOV, is expected back today from a short trip to Baltimore and Washington. KATHERINE STEFFAN, an entertainment highlight on WHIO-TV, Dayton, Ohio, is visiting in New York. EARLE C. ANTHONY, president of KFI, Los Angeles affiliate of NBC, visited last week at the headquarters of the web. JEFF CLARK, new "Hit Parade" singer on NBC, has returned from the Tobacco Bowl Festival. VICKEY CORREY, educational director of KDKA, Pittsburgh, who made a three-month tour of Europe for the UN last summer, is here to attend today's ceremonies at UN headquarters. HORACE HEIDT AND HIS PROGRAM personnel broadcast yesterday from the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo. MOREY AMSTERDAM will leave tonight for Toronto, where he will emcee the annual diority show of the Herzl Zion Club. THE MARINERS, quartet featured on Arthur Godfrey's radio and video programs, last Wednesday were in Philadelphia, where they entertained at Convention Hall in connection with the kick-off of the Community Chest fund campaign. FMA Seeks Assistance In Killing New 10% Tax (Continued from Page 1) action, FMA said on the basis of conversations last week with Internal Revenue Bureau officials. As yet, the government officials admitted, they did not know just how they would evaluate the taxable portion of TV sets with FM bands. President Names Doherty To Geneva Conference (Continued from Page 1) and wage conditions and performers' rights in radio and TV, technological changes within the industry and their effect upon employment, and other problems of importance to the industry. Announcer Joins WDSU New Orleans, La. — Bob Trebor, former chief staff announcer of WVET, Rochester, has been added to the WDSU Broadcasting Services announcing staff. DO YOU WANT A GUEST ON YOUR PROGRAM WHOSE OCCUPATION IS GIVING AWAY $3,000,000,000. Write: ARTHUR E. LINKER, 515 Madison Ave., N. Y. 22, N. Y. GE Earnings Off 19% From Last Year's Figure (Continued from Page 1) announced Friday. The totals were $67,612,879 this year, against $83,893,459 in 1948. Said Wilson: 'This decrease in earnings was due in part to the fact that in the quarter just closed there was no counterpart of the special dividend of $6,525,310 which was received in September, 1948, in connection with the liquidation of G. E. Employees Securities Corp." He added, however, that the drop in earnings was due principally to frequent changes in GE's production schedule which were made in a "futile" effort to keep pace with erratic market conditions. WKAT Offers UN Visit As Essay Contest Prize (Continued from Page 1) best essay on this subject will get a round-trip to Lake Success with all expenses paid, and will be accredited by the State Dept. to the UiN General Assembly as an official observer. Upon his return to Miami Beach, the prize-winning youth will be interviewed by Kingsley on his "News At Noon" over WKAT. Beg Your Pardon It was incorrectly stated in a recent issue of Radio Daily that Gilchrest-Spriggs & Co., Boston, was the agency handling radio and television advertising account of Durkee-Mower, Inc., Boston candy manufacturer. The agency is Harry M. Frost, Inc., and the account executive is Carl Frost. Gilchrest-Spriggs are public relations representatives for the candy manufacturer. Smart Sparrow Bird experts say that this is not the normal way for a sparrow to take a nap. But this smart little sparrow is happy as a lark on the special bed made for him by the kind lady who adopted him. If you're a time buyer, you can be happy as a lark about radio advertising in Baltimore. It's so simple! Although there are many stations, there's just ONE BIG BARGAIN BUY. . .And that buy is W-I-T-H, the big independent with the big audience. W-I-T-H delivers more listeners-per-dollar than any other station in town. That means that just a LITTLE money goes a LONG way on W-I-T-H. So if you want to be happy as a lark about low-cost radio results in Baltimore, use W-I-T-H. Call in your Headley-Reed man and get the full story today. Baltimore 3, Maryland TOM TINSLEY, President Represented by Headley-Reed