Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

PLAN INDUSTRY STATISTICAL BUREAU NAB, RMA, BMB And Gov't Officials Meet In Effort To Provide Figures On Receiver -Mfg., Ownership Say AM Sets Now Go To Non-Video Areas Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILY Washington — Several large manufacturers are said here to have discontinued all shipments of radio receivers to those areas where television service has won wide acceptance in an effort to provide as many receivers as possible for radiohungry Xmas buyers elsewhere. At the same time, there is recognition that the demand in television areas for sound radio sets is very strong, and these same manufacturers are planning to keep their lines (Continued on Page 5) Baker C?ets Promotion With WKBW In Buffalo Roger Baker, for the past 18 months commercial manager of WKBW, Buffalo, has been promoted to assistant to the president, Dr. Clinton Churchill, president and general manager announced yesterday. Baker started his radio career at WKBW in 1928. He broadcast over the Buffalo station for 11 years following his entry into the radio field and is credited with having introduced play-by-play (Continued on Page 2) Fineshriber Show Set To Debut On Mutual Web The first in a series of Hollywood originated shows introduced by Mutual vee-pee Bill Fineshriber will debut Christmas Eve over the full net when "Comedy of Errors" will be aired for a premiere performance. Show format calls for audience participation in finding errors in a ser(Continued on Page 2) Guesting Margaret Truman has elected to sing an aria f'om a Puccini opera and two Christmas carols when she inaugurates her winter concert tour on ABC's "Carnegie Hall" on Dec. 20. She will be supposed bv the Robert Shaw Choi-ale in this, her first professional appearance in New York City. Her nat'onwide tour continues until March 30. Ohio Broadcasters Plug Xmas Set Sales Akron, Ohro — "Give a radio for Christmas" has become the slogan for the Ohio Association of Broadcasters in a campaign to increase radio listenership in Ohio. Stations over the entire state have joined in the drive originally festered at the Cleveland Sales Clinic in November. Carl George, president of the OAB started the ball rolling and a drive to get year-round support is now under way. OAB has supplied scripts to every station in Ohio. Contest Techniques Revealed By Speaker Tried and true ideas used by advertisers in contests still pay off the best, F. Harvey Morse, account executive of the Reuben H. Donnelly Corporation, said at a meeting of the American Marketing Association in the Shelton Hotel on Tuesday. Experience shows, he continued, that novel ideas per se in contests are not successful. The old reliable contests requiring the writing of (Continued on Page 3) Church Grouo Purchases Time On ABC Network Endicott, N. Y.— ABC has signed the American Council of Christian Churches for a 13-week series of Saturday afternoon broadcasts entitled "Bible Messages" originating (Continued on Page 3) Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILY Washington — New sources of additional FM revenue from leased receivers for musical and special events program are described in a new study now being mailed FM members of NAB. The study, prepared by the FM director, Arthur Stringer, is based on reports from San Diego, Calif.; Topeka, Kans., and Evansville, Ind. The new plan, involving the leas Radio-TV Stations To Aid Scout Drive Twenty radio and TV station representatives met with Warren Jennings, radio-television chairman of the Greater New York Boy Scouts campaign yesterday at a luncheon at the Hotel Roosevelt and heard Scout executives explain the $2,000000 fund drive which will be conducted January 4 to February 12th. The stations agreed to support the Boy Scout drive and preliminary (Continued on Page 5) Hoy Named President Of Maine Broadcasters Waterville, Maine — The Maine Broadcaster's Association elected Frank Hoy, general manager of WLAM, Lewiston, president at their meeting held at Colby College. Harold Glidden, general manager of WAGM, Presque Isle, was elected (Continued on Page 2) Columbia Records To Plug LP's In Special Program "Columbia's LP Parade," sponsored over WCBS and a selected group of eight other stations, w:ll be heard in a two-shot Sunday series (Continued on Page 3) ing of the receivers, has been developed to fit the needs of such clients as hotels, restaurants, private clubs, stores and factories. A "muting device" in the leased FM receivers, operated by a supersonic signal from the transmitter, eliminates portions of the FM program as broadcast, so that the leased sets receive only the music and specialevents portions of the schedule, (Continued on Page 2) In a step toward formulation of an organization to provide reliable figures on radio and television set production and ownership throughout the country, representatives of NAB, RMA, BMB and the U. S. Department of Commerce met with six major manufacturers at BMB headquarters (Continued on Page 3) Protestant Radio Unit Hits Baptist FM Grant Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILY Washington — The Protestant Radio Commission has lodged a protest with the FCC against allocation of channels in the non-commercial educational FM area for a system of low-powered stations for the Baptist church. The church commission, headed by Everett Parker of Yale University and Chicago, feels that while the church should be per (Continued on Page 3) New Recording Turntable Being Developed By RCA Atlantic City — Expressing satisfaction over the growing acceptance of the 45 r.p.m. record players and the new line of recordings, Radio Corporation of America field representatives in conference here confirmed (Continued on Page 3) Whodunit Sequel? Bandleader Leo Dryer solved two of four fictional crime puzzles on WOR's "Five Mysteries" program and walked away from the show with 200 mystery books. Returning to his car from the show. Dryer found that thieves had broken into it and stole his wife's fur coat and a traveling bag. Unable to solve the crime, he went to the police. i d NAB Reveals FM-Lease Plan For Music And Special Events