Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY= Tuesday, October 25, 194S Change NAB By-Laws In Mail Referendum (Continued from Page 1) members and their rights of participation in NAB affairs. 2. and 3. Provide that in special cases the Board of Directors may set dues classifications on an interim basis, as in the case of television stations. 4. Provides for election of two directors-at-large to represent television stations on the Board of Directors. 5. Allows the NAB SecretaryTreasurer to count and tabulate votes in mail balloting, in place of a firm of certified accountants, and otherwise to conduct all elections. Terms Of Office Provided 6. Provides for terms of office for NAB directors, and brings terms of directors-at-large in line with twoyear terms of district directors, fixing the time when all directors take office. 7. Cancels the Board meeting formerly held after the annual NAB convention, providing only three Board meetings each year. 8. Eliminates the office of NAB executive vice-president. Copies of the revised by-laws, incorporating the foregoing amendments, will be sent out to all members. Schaefer Beer Sponsors Ice Hockey Over WMGM The F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. will sponsor the home games of the New York Ranger ice hockey team over WMGM, New York, starting Wednesday, Oct. 26. BBD&O handles the account. The 35-game home schedule of the Rangers will be played at Madison Square Garden, with Bert Lee and Ward Wilson doing play-by-play and color. The broadcasts will start at 9 p.m. Radio Gives Full Coverage To UN Corner-Stone Fete (Continued from Page 1) quarters. With an estimated audience of 50,000,000 people hearing the broadcasts throughout the world, radio carried the program to 2,000 stations throughout the United States and staff members of U. N. radio division described the ceremony in 26 languages for broadcast by shortwave around the world. Benjamin Cohen, assistant secretary general of U. N., arrived early for a last minute check of the radio, TV and newsmen's accommodations Jim's Busy Day James Sauter, entertainment advisor to the Democratic National Committee and aide to Mayor William O'Dwyer, was one of the busiest men at the V. N. dedicatory ceremonies. He took President Truman's overcoat and hat when he mounted the rostrum, tested the microphones, poured a glass of water for him and then retired to chat with Mayor O'Dwyer. When the ceremonies got underway Jim disappeared in the wings wiping his brow. WEVD 117 119 W 46 St HENRY GREENFIELD. Me. Director N Y 19 and to inspect the seating arrange ments for the delegations from 59 countries. Peter Aylen, director of radio, was there too and Dorothy Lewis, head of the domestic radio division, was busy shepherding a group of women commentators about. Among her guests were Alma Kitchell of WJZ-ABC and Helen Sioussat, director of talks of CBS. Ben Grauer, NBC's ace announcer, shook hands with U. N. officials as he moved about and Robert Trout another well known radio and TV commentator, busied himself in the press section quitely making notes on the occasion. The whole scene was reminiscent of a national political convention or the inauguration of a President. Batteries of TV cameras and radio equipment were mounted high to the left of the rostrum while on an improved stage to the right still cameramen and radio news com mentators were arranged on different elevations. Staff announcers of U. N. speaking in 26 languages operated from the roof of the Manhattan Building near the cornerstone itself, and began broadcasting at 11:45 a.m. A running discription of the entire proceedings as well as transmission of the live voices of the principal speakers was shortwaved by U. N. radio to Europe and the Mid-East and relayed by CBC in Canada. Representatives of the United States State Department's Voice of America and uniformed announcers of the Armed Forces network were also on hand to give a word picture of the ceremonies and accompanying addresses to listeners around the world. The whole ceremony moved with clock-like precision. It began at 12: 00 noon when Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, president of the General Assembly, called the session to order after a brief speech emphasizing the importance of the ococcasion and then introduced Hon. Warren R. Austin, chairman of the Headquarters Advisory committee; The Hon. William O'Dwyer, Mayor of the City of New York; The Hon. Thomas E. Dewey, governor of the State of New York and The Hon. Harry S. Truman, president of the United States of America. Each speaker spoke into a battery of microphones on the rostrum and their voices were carried over a public address system to the thousands who gathered for the occasion. Network pickups of the ceremonies began at 12:30 p.m., with the address of President Truman and concluded with the cornerstone laying ceremony in which The Honorable Trygve Lie, Secretary General, participated. FMA And NAB Rest; Early Merger Seen Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILY Washington — Tentative terms whereby FMA would become a par1 of NAB have been gone over b> members of the NAB structure committee, with FMA toppers also participating in the discussions. These terms will now be gone over by the FMA board, which will decide whether to submit them to the association's membership for approval and also by the NAB board when it meets next month. Details of the discussions are being kept bottled up, but it has been es tablished that there has been great progress toward the merging of the two groups. That the question would have to be put to the membership of FMA was advanced as the prime reason for secrecy, but one participant in the discussions remarked that "any rumors of an approaching merger may be said to have some substantial basis." It was stressed that the meetings here last week were the first looking toward merger, and that there might have to be more. Sales Of Philip Morris Up 15% From Last Year Sales of Philip Morris & Co. during the six months ended with September were 15.2 per cent above the corresponding period last year, the firm's report disclosed yesterday. Dollar volume of sales increased $16,990,621, to a total of $128,457,106. The company reported an estimated net income of $8,012,610, equal to $3.81 per share, against $5,801,258 or $2.69 per share earned in the six months to Sept. 30, 1948. 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