Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Monday, November 21. 1949 Vol. 49, No. 33 Monday, Nov. 21, 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. Alicoute, 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 — (November 18) — NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE ABC Admiral Corp. Am. Tel. & Tel CBS A CBS B 251/4 Philco 301/2 Philco Pfd 83V2 RCA Common RCA First Pfd. Steward-Warner Westinghouse . . Westinghouse Pfd Zenith Radio High Low Close 73/4 71/4 73/4 30 295/8 295/g 146l/4 146 1/8 146l/4 251/4 241/4 25% UVi 291/2 83 123/s 73 11% 27% 12% 73 11% 281/2 102 29 3 8 102 28V4 251/4 30% 831/2 12% 73 11% 281/2 102 29?R Net Chg. + Va + Va + % + 1 + H/i + V2 — % + % + 3/4 + V» + 1% — '/« NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. . . 15 14% 14% Nat. Union Radio . 2% 2i/2 IVl OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Du Mont Lab 14'/4 15l/4 Stromberg-Carlson 13% 14% WCAO (Baltimore) 17 21 WJR (Detroit) 7% *y/4 Southwest Station Reps Form New Association 'Continued from Page 1) Agency; Frank Brim, Katz Agency; Howard Dunavan. Lone Star Chain; Buell Herman. Edward Petry and Co., Inc.; Clyde Melville, TaylorBoirofT, Inc.; Ken Sibson, Ra-Tel representatives, and Clarke Brown, Texas State Network, spot sales division. According to Paul Girard. Paul Girard Company, general chairman of the new group, the purpose of SABR is to further increase the effectiveness of spot radio and broaden the service scope of station reps. Standing Committees Of NAB Cut To Nine (Continued from Page 1) Employer Relations Committee, Engineering Committee, FM Committee, Government Relations Committee, and Un-Affiliated Stations Committee. On the Radio Committee and the Television Committee there will be nine members each, representing management, programming, sales, research, public affairs, standards and education. The NAB president is authorized to appoint alternates, with two for each of the five-man bodies and three for the nine-member committee. The alternates will be former members of the committees. The board also approved the appointment of an ad hoc board committee to outline rights and privileges of associate members of the NAB for district directors and others interested. This committee is to report at the board's February meeting at Phoenix, Ariz. The ad hoc group is also to study and submit to the February meeting a recommendation on whether or not non-member stations and others should be made elegible to attend future district meetings and national conventions. The Standards of Practice and Education Committee is to be known hereafter as the Standards and Education Committee. Mutual Billings Rise, $3,800,000 Is Added (Continued from Page 1) of a five-a-week news program on January 2 over a coast-to-coast hookup and Miles Laboratories will continue its five-a-week sponsorship of "Queen For A Day." Other new advertisers include the Hallicrafters Co. of Chicago which will sponsor "Hollywood Quiz" starting Dec. 10, and the Chamberlain Sales Corp. who will pick up the tab for "John B. Kennedy and the News" starting Dec. 24. Doubleday & Company, book publishers, will sponsor a six-day-a-week program starting January 2. Program details have not yet been worked out. Other new deals include the Benjamin Moore Company's sponsorship of "Your Home Beautiful" starting in March. "The Fishing And Hunting Club of the Air" has been renewed for sponsorship by the Mail Pouch Tobacco Company, and two religious programs have retained sponsorship; the Christian Reformed Church will continue "Back To God" for another 52 weeks and the Radio Bible Class will also stay for 52 weeks. Sportscasters Honored Cleveland — Jimmy Dudley and Jack Graney, who aired the Cleveland Indians games on WJW during the past season, have been given a special award by the Cleveland Junior Chamber of Commerce for "outstanding service to the community beyond the call of duty." Lemmon Makes Comment On FCC Investigation (Continued from Page 1) World Wide for an FCC permit to boost the power of WRUW from 20,000 watts to 250,000 watts. He said that the stations had been relicensed on Sept. 30 at their present power level for a period of six months and that his organization had not applied for new licenses at this time. FCC's Side Stated In announcing the proposed inquiry into World Wide's operations, the FCC said that the stations had applied for license renewals and that before renewal action was taken it would hold hearings to determine: 1. The nature of non-Governmental program material. 2. If operations conform to international broadcasting regulations. 3. Whether the frequencies have been used for domestic broadcasts. 4. Whether the renewal applications contain "full and complete disclosures relative to the real party or parties in interest." 5. Whether the "persons in control . . . have correctly represented their monetary investments in the licensee corporation." 6. And the interrelationship of World Wide Broadcasting Corp.; Radio Industries Corp., a Lemmon Company, and the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, a nonprofit organization. World Wide is the only one of seven international broadcasting licencees which has been developing its own program packages for beaming overseas, according to Mr. Lemmon. However, he continued, most of its broadcasting hours are devoted to Voice of America programs. Guy Named President Of The IRE For 1950 (Continued from Page 1) Award winner, is considered Britain's foremost radar authority. Elected as IRE directors-at-large for the 1950-1951 term were William R. Hewlett, v-p of Hewlett Packard Company, and James W. McRae, director of electronics and television research of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Regional directors who were elected include: in the North Atlantic Region, Prof. Herbert J. Reich, Yale Univ.; in the Central Atlantic Region, Prof. Ferdinand Hamburger. Jr., of Johns Hopkins; in the Central Region, John D. Reid, manager of research, Crosley Division of Avco Manufacturing Corp.; in the Pacific Region, Prof. Austin Eastman of the Univ. of Washington. IRE has an international membership of 25,000. It was founded in 1912 to foster the advancement of theory and practice of radio and electronics. Chase Visiting Europe Cincinnati— Milton Chase, WLW news commentator, has begun a sixweek tour of seven European countries to gather material for WLW broadcasts. He plans to visit England, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Austria. Be careful, Dobbin! This little kitten could easily get hurt playing around the stable. But faithful old Dobbin takes great care to protect his tiny pal. The best way you can take care of any sales problem in Baltimore is to put your advertising on W-I-T-H, the BIG independent that gives you a BIG plus audience. In addition to the biggest home audience at lowest cost in town, a survey supervised by the Johns Hopkins University proved that of all radios playing in taverns, 67.3% were tuned to W-I-T-H! That's why W-I-T-H produces low-cost results. That's why W-I-T-H should be on your list! 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