Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY= Friday, November 18, 1949 Vol. 49, No. 32 Friday, Nov. 18, 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. Alicojjte, 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 Tata, Manager. 360 No. Michigan Ave. Phone: Randolph 6-6650 SOUTHWEST BUREAU Paul Glrard, 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., •tnder the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL _ (November 17) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE ABC Admiral Corp. Am. Tel. & Tel.. . CBS A CBS B Philco RCA Common RCA First Pfd. Stewart-Warner Westinghouse Westinghouse Pfd Zenith Radio High 7i/2 293/4 146'/4 245/s 241/4 295/8 123/8 733/4 11% 273/4 101% 28 Low 73/8 291/4 1461/s 241/8 241/4 29i/2 12 V, 73% lH/2 27% 101% 28 Close 71/2 293/g 1461/4 245/s 24l/4 295/8 123/s 73% 113/4 273/4 101% 28 Net Chg. + "%' + % + % + % + Va + % + % + % NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Coro. 14% 14% 14% + 3/8 Nat. Union Radio 25/8 2l/2 25/8 + % OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Du Mont Lab 13% 14% Stromberg-Carlson 131/2 14% WCAO (Baltimore) 17 21 WJR (Detroit) 7i/2 8 University Buys WDLF From News Commentator (Continued from Page 1) ago with an idea of moving to Florida. His plans were changed so he put the station on the market. No change in personnel is anticipated. Application has been made to change the name to WJBS for identification with the university. Freeman Jesse Young Freeman Jes.se Young, account executive of Kenyon Eckhardt, Inc., died Tuesday evening November 8, at the age of 43. Surviving are his widow. Margaret, and three children. * COIDING AND GOING * DOUGLAS L. MANSHIP, vice-president of WJBO, Baton Rouge affiliate of NBC and the Louisiana Network, is in New York this week for talks with officers of the web. GORDON GRAY, vice-president of WIP, Philadelphia, is expected in town today for confabs with his national reps. LUCILLE SHEARWOOD, director of food service for the Federal Advertising Agency, is in Austin, Tex., where tomorrow and Sunday she will be guest speaker at the celebrotion marking the 10th anniversary of Texas University's "Radio House," directed by Thomas D. Rishworth. She'll also attend the annual conference of District 13, AWB. JOHN J. ANTHONY, human-relations counsellor featured on radio and television, is expected back tomorrow from Hollywood, where he auditioned a new network radio show to originate on the West Coast. JAMES STREET, premium buyer for McCannErickson, Inc., is back from Syracuse, where he addressed the Advertising Club of that city on the subject, "The Dollars and Sense of Premiums." LESLIE F. BIEBL, program and promotion manager for Associated Program Service, left this week to spend the remainder of his vacation. ROBERTA QUINLAN, singing television star, today will leave by plane for Amsterdam, N. Y., to sing at the convention of the Mohawk Carpet Co. She is heard Tuesday and Thursdays via NBC. WHHT Leaving Air; Will Consolidate With WSSB (Continued from Page 1) concluded last week between Harold H. Thorns, sole owner of WHHT and the Public Information Corporation, licensee and operator of WSSB <250w-1490kc) also in Durham. The principal stockholders of the corporation are Tom Sawyer, P. M. Sawyer and Mrs. Roma Cheek. Harold Thorns will become chairman of the board of Public Information Corporation and will have a substantial and active interest in its operation. All the physical facilities of WHHT, its feature programs such as "Country Boy" and 99 per cent of its current accounts will be transferred to WSSB. MBS has negotiated an affiliation contract with WSSB for full MBS service, previously carried by WHHT. Mirkel Directing Consolidation Bill Mickel, present manager of WHHT, is directing the -work of combining the best programming features of both stations and Tom McCaffrey, recently appointed manager of WSSB will continue in that capacity. WW] Stations Appoint Walbridge Asst. Mgr. Detroit— Willard E. Walbridge has been appointed assistant manager of WWJ, WWJ-TV, in addition to his duties as general sales manager of the stations. In other staff changes, Mabel Munroe, formerly assistant sales manager of WWJ, has been named office manager of WWJ, WWJ-FM, and WWJ TV. She has been replaced as assistant sales manager of WWJ by Norman Hawkins, formerly BOB CANAVAN, publicity director and farm editor at KROD, El Paso, Tex., is in town for conferences with the national representatives of the station. JESSE BIRNBAUM, press deportment luminary at NBC, is in St. Louis covering the web's telecast of the wedding of Vice-presidenl Barkley and Mrs. Carleton Hadley. PETER DONALD, comic, tias returned from Pittsburgh. HERB SHELDON, daytime comedy star on ABC, has returned from Philadelphia, where he appeared in connection with his new film featurette, "You Don't Say," soon to open at New York's Criterion Theater. TOMMY TRINDER, English song-and-dance man well known to Albion audiences, has left for Britain following two weeks in the U.S. TONY MARTIN and the members of his band will arrive today from the West Coast. They have been engaged for three weeks ot New York's Roxy Theater. BUDDY BASCH has returned from Bridgeport, Conn., where he completed details for this Sunday's appearance of Johnny Long and his band at the Ritz Ballroom. KARL KNIPE, vice-president of Anderson, Davis & Platte, Inc., and VICTOR SEYDEL, radio and television director of the agency, spent Wednesday in Carlisle, Pa., arranging details for the renewal of the CBS-TV "Masland at Home Show" for C. H. Masland & Sons Rug Co. Five New AM Outlets OK'd By Commission (Continued from Page 1) Pittsburgh County Broadcasting Felix H. Morales, with operation on the 1480 band, with his estimated construction cost $32,850. In iPrineville, Radio Central Oregon, Inc., will operate on the 690 band with an estimated construction cost of $28,764. Okayed to operate with 250 watts unlimited on the 1450 band was the Bessemer Broadcasting Co., Bessemer., Ala., while the Diamond H. Ranch Broadcasters were granted a permit to operate on the 1490 band at Auburn, Calif., with 250 watts unlimited. KAGH Sale Approved The Commission also okayed the conditional sale of KAGH and KARS (its FM affiliate) in Pasadena, Calif., from Andrew G. Haley, lawyer to Marshall S. Neal, Paul Buhlig, E. T. Foley and Edwin Earl for $55,000. (Price tag on WKSR, Pulaski, Tenn., was $30,000, with the station passing from Robert W. Rounsaville and George M. Clark to John R. Crowder, James P. Clark and W. E. Williams. The same price was paid by the Shore Broadcasting Co., to James H. and Thomas P. Littlepage, Jr., for WCMD, Cambridge, Md., while the price for WIHL, Hammond, La., sold by Joseph A. Sims to Sidney S. Rosenblum and Forrest E. Curnutt was only $19,000. of WWJ-TV sales. Robert Schlinkirt, also of WWJ-TV sales, has been named assistant sales manager of WWJ-TV. Clarence E. Day, Jr., formerly with Brooke, Smith, French & Dorrance, has joined WWJ as an associate producer. Shut your mouth, Nellie! When Nellie the hippo yawns, it's really a major production. She's got the biggest mouth in the whole zoo. There's something BIG in the Baltimore radio market, too. Ifs W-I-T-H, the station that gives advertisers a big plus audience. You know W-I-T-H delivers more home listeners than any other station in town. And now a survey supervised by the Johns Hopkins University proves that of all radios playing in grocery stores 42.3% were tuned to W-I-T-H. That's a real plus for you! It means that a small appropriation on W-I-T-H will produce big results. Get the whole W-I-T-H story today from your HeadleyReed man. Baltimore 3, Maryland TOM TINSLEY, President Repreiented by Hea<H«y-R««d