Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Friday. October 28, 1949 Vol. 49, No. 19 Friday, Oct. 28, 1949 10 Cts. 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. AlicoL'te, 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 postoffice at New York, N. Y., •>nder the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL _ {October 27) — NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. ABC 8% 8i/8 8 1/4 + Va Admiral Corp. . . 285/8 28i/8 281/g — % Am. Tel. & Tel. . . 1445/g 1441/4 1445/g + % CBS A 243/8 23'/4 243/s — 1/8 CBS B 243/8 24l/4 243/8 + Va Philco 303/4 301/4 301/2 — Va Philco pfd 81 81 81 — % RCA Common 13 123/4 123/4 — 1/4 RCA 1st pfd 701/2 70i/2 701/2 y4 Stewart-Warner . . 13 V4 13 13 + Va Westinghouse 293/s 29 291/4 + V2 Westinghouse pfd. 100 100 100 + Va Zenith Radio .... 29i/2 291/4 291/4 NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. . 1434 141/2 141/2 3/8 Nat. Union Radio. ■ 2% 234 2% + Va OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked 143/s 153/8 Stromberg-Carlson 133/4 15 N. Y. Stations Schedule Home Studies Series 'Continued from Page 1) by the following stations: WNBC. New York; WBEN, Buffalo; WHAM. Rochester: WINR. Binghamton, and WENY, Elmira. WGY, Schenectady, will start the series Nov. 1, and WSYR, Syracuse, will pick it up at a later date. WBKB Names Weed & Co. As National Sales Rep. 'Continued from Page 1) but Weed & Co. will take over representation for this territory in addition to the rest of the U. S. WBKB affiliated with CBS-TV earlier this month. Transit Radio Hearing Opens In Washington (Continued from Page 1) established that there is a sharp division among citizens' groups and among individuals, with feeling extremely high on both sides. Spokesmen for the two viewpoints were alternately booed and hissed in what was easily the best attended hearing of the PUC in many years. Several opponents of transit radio seriously threatened a court test if the PUC finally okays the installations. BMB May Reorganize To Offer Stock Shares (Continued from Page 1) plans being discussed now. He reported that BMB spent $1,300,000 on the first BMB Study and admitted that the organization is in financial difficulties. Penn Broadcasters Assn. Elects Officers, Directors (Continued from Page 1) WBVP, Beaver Falls; vice-president, C. G. Moss, WLTR, Bloomsburg; secretary, David E. Bennett, WKBO, Harrisburg; treasurer, George E. Joy, W R A K , Williamsport; directors: Leonard Kapner, WCAE, Pittsburgh; Gordon Gray, WIP, Philadelphia; Three Mfrs. Report Sharp Sales Increase (Continued from Page 1) that Westinghouse is considering raising the regular quarterly dividend from 25 cents per share to 40 cents. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, 1949, Westinghouse reported a net income of $20,554,447. Net income for the like period a year ago was $9,855,245. Motorola, Inc., registered recordbreaking sales totaling $51,795,564 for the first nine months of 1949, as against a sales volume of $39,848,775 for the like period in 1948, according to Paul V. Galvin, president. CBS Programs Take Nielsen's 'Top Eight' (Continued from Page 1) Arthur Godfrey's "Talent Scouts" with 19.7; "Mr. Keen" with 18.0; "My Friend Irma" with 16.7, "Suspense" with 16.1; "F.B.I. In Peace & War" with 15.9; "Inner Sanctum" with 15.9; and. "Crime Photographer" with 15.2. Ninth and 10th places were taken by Jack Benny with 14.8, and "Mystery Theater" with 14.6. Clair R. McCullough, WGAL, Lancaster; John S. Booth, WCHA, Chambersburg; Vic Diehm, WAZL, Hazelton; W. K. Ulerich, WCPA, Clearfield; David M. Baltimore, WBRE, Wilkes-Barre. "Say! Whose nest is this?" It looks as if this hen has to find another nest. The cat just moved in and is rapidly taking over. The cat is behaving exactly like a lot of smart advertisers these days. 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