Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Tuesday. November I, 1949 Vol. 49, No. 21 Tues., Nov. 1, 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. Alicozjte, 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. CY'ble 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., •"ider the act of March 3, 1879. _flljfCIAL_ NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. ABC 7% 75/8 75/8 _ % Admiral Corp 27% 26% 27'/8 + l/4 Am. Tel. & Tel.. .1443,4 144% 144% — l/4 CBS A 24 24 24 CBS B 24 24 24 Philco 281/2 27l/2 271/2 — Vs RCA Common .... 12% 12% 12% — % Stewart-Warner ... 12% 12y4 12i/2 Westinghouse .... 29% 28% 28% — % Westinghouse pfd. 100 100 100 + % Zenith Radio 28% 28 28 — % NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. ... 14% 143/& 143/8 Nat. Union Radio.. 23^ 23^ 234 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked DuMont Lab 20 21 Stromberg-Carlson 14 15% U. S. Television % % WCAO (Baltimore) 16 WJR (Detroit) 7% 8% Three Killed As Plane Rams WCHV Tower 'Continued from Page 1) tower, lost a wing, and plummeted into a nearby wooded area. The flames were extinguished by Robert C. Walker, WCHV commercial manager, and Walter W. Gray, chief engineer. Radio Receiver Sales Increase In Canada 'Continued from Page 1) port of the Bureau of Statistics. During the first seven months of this year, 347,000 units were sold for $24,7)0,200 as against 225,700 for $20,109,500 in the similar period of 1948. Says 'Polls' Not Vital To 'Transit' Decision (Continued from Page 1) polls on musical trolleys and declared that "the decision of the Commission will not be based on the number of people who like it or the number who do not like it." The Commission today enters its fourth day of hearings to determine whether it should approve the installation of FM radio in street cars and busses. The contract here calls for programmings by WWDC-FM, with eventual installation of receiving equipment on some 1500 units of rolling stock. Over 200 are now equipped, and they have been bitterly attacked by a very vocal group maintaining that the imposition of the music and the commercials is a violation of personal liberty. Called to the stand yesterday was Dr. Winfred Overholser, director of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. The eminent psychiatrist declared "there are certain persons who have violent dislikes. If they are constantly subjected to a particular influence it has a frustrating, annoying effect which may produce a nervous strain." He said he was not referring only to the radio. Also heard were Norman Reed, WWDC program director; WWDC's general manager, Ben Strouse, and the consulting engineer, Frank H. Mcintosh. Reed told of the programming, with music from the Muzak library and up to 12 commercials per hour. In a typical 12-hour program day there were introduced 87 commercials and 31 public service announcements, with 199 musical numbers. Strouse said there is great interest in the Defense Department in transit radio. Without going into the matter in detail on the stand, Strouse later told reporters the defense authorities had been interested in it as a means of getting word in emergency to drivers and passengers to abandon or re-route or to get to the nearest telephone for two-way communication. Use of radio-equipped busses as ambulances was also mentioned. Strouse made no attempt to evade the fact that his primary interest in transit radio is commercial. Michelson Cuts Prices On Blackstone Series (Continued from Page I) nounced yesterday by Charles Michelson, Inc., which packages the show. This move is expected to "bring into the fold the remaining Blackstone Washer dealers still not signed up," a Michelson spokesman said. The transcribed series is currently being carried on a total of 183 stations. The Michelson office also announced details of a sales promotion contest among its field representatives, in which prizes will be offered for the greatest number of new contracts in each sales territory. New 'Voice' Director Takes Gov't AM Post 'Continued from Page 1) of U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. James Clement Dunn, on Nov. 19 in Rome. After a honeymoon, the couple will return to Washington. Kohler, a native of Oakwood, Ohio, and a graduate of the Ohio State University, was appointed to the U S. Foreign Service of the State Department in 1931. Kohler, whose status is similar to that of Thayer's in that both are career diplomats on rotating foreign service, has served for the State Department at Windsor, Canada; Bucharest, Rumania; Belgrade,, Yugoslavia; Athens, Greece; Cairo, Egypt; London, England, and Moscow, U.S.S.R. WNEW Renews Contract Contracts were signed Friday by WNEW, New York indie, and the News whereby the station will continue its service of 24 five-minute daily newscasts for another 14 months, it was announced Friday by Bernice Judis, manager of the station, and F. M. Flynn, president of the News. News around the clock was first started on February 16, 1942. Since that date nearly 68,000 regular editions and approximately 60,000,000 words have been aired to WNEW listeners. William Fagan is director of news broadcasts for the paper. Home Menagerie COminG and GOIflG EMILIO AZCARRAGA, president of XEW and director of Radio Programmas de Mexico, returned by plane last night to Mexico City after having spent two weeks in New York. MERLE JONES, general manager of KNX and the Columbia Pacific Network with offices in Los Angeles, has arrived in San Francisco on business. CARL HAVERLIN, president of BMI, and ROY HARLOW, director of station relations for the organization, are in Boston for the NAB regional meeting. JOSE RAMON QUINONES, president of WAPA, San Juan, P. R., yesterday left New York for Havana, from which point he will return to Puerto Rico next week. Senor Quinones has spent the past month in New York and Washington on business. DR. PETER GOLDMARK, director of engineering and research development for CBS, yesterday arrived in London, England, where today he will address members of the radio section, Institution of Electrical Engineering, on the subject of the CBS color-television system. ED REEVE, manager of research projects for CBS, today is in Boston to address the Advertising Club of that city at its meeting in the Hotel Statler on the subject, "Television Research." JOE Dl MAGGIO, Yankee outfielder who doubles in brass with a program on CBS, has left for a two-week vacation in Honolulu. ARTHUR R. SELIGMAN, owner of the Tappan Hill Restaurant at Tarrytown, N. Y., who is now planning a radio program from that point, has returned from a business trip to Boston. At first the cat was the only pet in this home. Then a stray dog was added. And finally a baby duck. They all became great friends. W-I-T-H has a way of making great friends, too — by producing the lowest-cost sales of any station in Baltimore. W-I-T-H, you see, delivers more home listeners-per-dollar than any other station in town. And in addition to this biggest home audience, a recent survey, made under the supervision of the Johns Hopkins University, showed that of all radios playing in drug stores, 34.6% were tuned to W-I-T-H. That means that even small investments on W-I-T-H produce big results. If you'd like the whole, exciting story about W-I-T-H, call in your TIeadley-Reed man. Tom Tinsley, President • Represented by Headley-Reed