Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY; Wednesday. November 23, 1949 Vol. 49, No. 35 Wed., Nov. 23, 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. Alicoiite, 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 Tito. 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., ■itidcr the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL (November 22) — NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE High Low Close ABC 73/4 1% 73/4 Admiral Corp 30 29'/2 30 Am. Tel. & Tel.... 146 Vi 1463'8 146i/2 CBS A 25 25 25 CBS B 25 25 25 Philco 30'A 30 30'/4 Philco pfd 80 83 83 RCA Common 13 12% 13 RCA 1st pfd 733/8 73% 73 V8 Stewart-Warner ... 11% 1 1 3/8 11% Westinghouse 28% 28 28% Westinghouse pfd. 101 101 101 28% 28% Net Chg. + % + % + Vs Zenith Radio 28% NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp.... 15V4 15 15 Not. Union Radio. . 2% 2% 2% OVER THE COUNTER Bid DuMont Lab 14'/4 Stromberg-Carlson 14 WCAO (Baltimore) 17 WJR (Detroit) 7% + 1/4 + Va + '/4 + % — % — % Asked 15% 15% 21 8% CARDINAL XMAS SALES REPORTED ZOOMING Hollywood — Joseph F. MacCaughtry, prexy of Cardinal Company, radio and TV production firm, announced sales of company's annual Christmas shows are hitting all-time high. Four special quarter-hour Xmas programs, labeled "Xmas-4." have been purchased by over three hundred stations to date. Custom-built for local station presentation as "radio Christmas cards" the shows feature a number of top names in entertainment business: CLARK DENNIS. Capitol Records recording star, ir« a "Musical Christmas Tree": THE MODERNA1RES. top singing group heard rcg. ularlv over "Club Fifteen": in "Musical Sleioh Ride"; a dramatization of The Nativity with MARVIN MILLER: and "Christmas Stories" told in the heart-warming style of ART BAKER. Initially started as ? good-will gesture by the company, the entire package is being sold in all markets for flat price of $20.00. Stations desiring the special holiday shows for their area are ?dvised to contact Cardinal Comnany. 6000 Suns't Boulevard. Hollywood. Calif. Advt. * COflllNG AND GOING * LUCILLE BALL, star of "My Favorite Husband" on CBS, has arrived aboard an American Airliner. She'll be here a week. DON DUNPHY, American network sportscaster, off to Detroit, where tomorrow he will broadcast the bout between Ross Virgo and Lester Felton. JANE TIFFANY WAGNER, director of education at NBC, on Friday will be in Buffalo to address the 39th annual conference of the National Conference of Teachers of English. Her subject, "The Potentialities of Television in Education." JOHN LOVETON, producer of "Mr. and Mrs. North" on CBS, off to Chicago with MRS. LOVETON for the Thanksgiving holiday. MORGAN BEATTY, newscaster on NBC, on Friday will leave on a trip to Dallas and Houston. At Dallas, he'll address the members of the Wholesalers and Manufacturers Assn., while in Houston he'll deliver a talk at the luncheon to be given by William P. Hobby, former governor of Texas and now publisher of the Houston Post, operator of KPRC. EDGAR KOBAK and MRS. KOBAK are in Thomson, Ga., for Thanksgiving Week. While there Mr. Kobak will attend a meeting of the board of directors of WTWA. KENYON BROWN, general manager of KFWT, Wichita Falls, Tex., in New York for conferences at CBS, with which the station is affiliated. WALTER WINCHELL, who was called to New York last week by the death of his mother, left town Monday for Miami. He was accompanied by PAUL SCHEFFELS, assistant to Thomas Velotta, ABC vice-president in charge of news and special events. PHIL ALAMPI, farm director for the American network, now is in Chicago to attend the meeting of the National Association of Radio Form Directors. He is secretary-treasurer of the organization. BILL POLGLASE and CHIP CIPOLLA, sportscasters on Fordham's WFUV, ore back from New Brunswick, N. J., where last Saturday they broadcast the game between Rutgers and the Rams. MORT NUSBAUM, disc jockey and emcee heard on WHAM-TV, Rochester, N. Y., in Gotham for a quick week-end. ALBERT H. JAEGGIN, erstwhile RADIO DAILY staffer and now early-morning newsroom luminary at WOR, will leave tomorrow for Baltimore. He'll spend four days hunting near Havre de Grace. ROBERTA QUINLAN, vocalist, on Saturday will leave for Chicago. On Dec. 5, she'll be in San Francisco for the sales convention of Mohawk Carpet Mills. CYD CHARISSE, wife of Tony Martin, singer, has arrived from the West Coast to join hubby, now filling an engagement at the Roxy Theater. GEORGE GOODALE, publicist for the Los Angeles baseball club, planed back to Hollywood Mondav following a week in town discussing his client, Ralph Kiner, with advertising agency officials. WILTON GUNZENDORFER, of KROW, Oakland, returning to the West Coast this week with a stopover in Chicago. TOM PAGE, farm director for NBC, is in Washington to attend a meeting of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the U. N. From there he'll go to Chicago for the confab of the Radio Farm Directors. ALLEN T. SIMMONS, owner and general manager of WADC, Columbia network outlet in Akron, Ohio, is in New York for a few days on station business. PHIL DEAN, of the press department at NBC, spent the week-end in Buffalo, where he attended the Saints and Sinners Dinner. EDITH J. MESERAND, assistant director of news and special features for WOR, today will return from Bermuda, where she did an onthe-scene interview with the survivors of the B-29 crash. C. R. JACOBS, formerly of CBS and now a studio consultant, is in town from Princeton, III., on business. BERT LOWN, station relations director of Associated Program Service, to Detroit for the meeting of District 8, NAB. Crisler Gives Views On Radio Hearing (Continued from Page 1) public utilities commission can be largely explained by the fact that Washington citizens are disenfranchised. "They have no representatives in a city council to speak for them, and they are forced to voice their grievances before commissions and the actual governing bodies or through the newspapers. Hearings, particularly those on which there has been advance publicity, provide an excellent opportunity for them to express themselves and inspired by three of the four Washington newspapers and encouraged by the simplicity of a subject which only required an opinion concerning personal tastes, full advantage was taken of this occasion." Crisler said 13 of 16 associations testifying approved Transit Radio. Taylor Renewed By G. M, For Quarter Hour On ABC (Continued from Page 1) (8:30 p.m., EST) on Monday nights beginning December 12. Taylor has been sponsored by General Motors since December 20, 1948 and under the renewal, will continue over 264 ABC stations. The Kudner Agency, Inc., of New York represents the company. 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