Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY: Friday, December 9. 1949 Vol. 49, No. 46 Friday, Dec. 9, 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. AlicoLte, Secretary. Terms (Postage free) United States (other than California) $10.00 one vear; 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. Ciible 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. 612 N. Michigan Ave. Phone: Superior 7-1044 SOUTHWEST BUREAU Paul Girard. Manager Tower Petroleum Bldg., Dallas, Texas Phone: Riverside 3518-9 Entered as second class matter, April 5, 1937, at the postofnce at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL (December 8) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net Low Close Chg. 8V4 83/8 ABC Am. Tel. & Tel.. . CBS A CBS B Philco RCA Common . . . RCA 1st pfd Stewart-Warner . . Westinghouse . . . Westinghouse pfd Zenith Radio . . . High 8i/2 .1485/8 l . 271/4 . 263/4 ■ 30l/4 . 131/4 . 741/4 • 123/g . 311/g 1021/2 1 31 1/8 48I/2 1485/s + 261/2 271/4 + 263/4 4 30 + 13i/8 ... 73 V, — 123/s + 303/g 301/g + 021/2 1021/2 + 31 31 26V4 30 13 73 V, 121/b OVER THE COUNTER Bid DuMont Lab 14 Stromberg-Carlson 11 1/4 U. S. Television V4 WCAO (Baltimore) 17 WJR (Detroit) 73/4 Asked 15 I2V2 1/2 20 8 Bob Trout's Busy Day Includes Four Broadcasts NBC's Bob Trout will be a busy man tomorrow when he handles four major television and radio shows between 3:30 and 11 p.m. A special network program on the water shortage throughout the nation will start his day, with a 5:00 p.m. TV broadcast on the first anniversary ceremonies of the UN Declaration of Human Rights followingly closely afterwards. The UN video show will be a two and one-quarter hour stint and includes the Boston Symphony Orchestra and interviews with Eleanor Roosevelt, Trygve Lie and General Romulo on its schedule. Trout will be on the regular TV quiz show, Who Said That, at 9:00 p.m. with Leo Durocher, Laraine Day and Oscar Levant. ft COmiNG AND GOING -< GEORGE 8. STORER, president of Fort Industry Co.; LEE B. WAILES, vice-president in charge of operations, and HAROLD RYAN, vice-president and treasurer, are in New York on business. EDDIE and IDA CANTOR, who had been visiting in New York for about a week, left yesterday for Hollywood. They'll stop over for a while in St. Louis. MORRIS S. NOVIK, public service radio consultant, is back in New York following a trip to the West Coast, where he arranged a number of AFL programs. Returning, he stopped over briefly in Chicago. PAULINE FREDERICK, American network commentator, is in San Juan, Puerto Rico, participating in the ceremonies attendant upon the opening of the big new Carib-Hilton Hotel. KEN MURRAY, featured on CBS-television, will arrive by train tomorrow from Hollywood and will immediately start rehearsals for his "Ken Murray Show," which will make its debut Jan. 7. JOE Dl MAGGIO has arrived from the West Coast to transcribe another batch of his CBS programs. ART LINKLETTER, master of ceremonies on "People Are Funny" over NBC, is expected in New York tomorrow from the West Coast. J. B. FUQUA, owner and manager of WJBF, Augusta, who has been in New York on business most of this week, will leave for Georgia today. Sat in for a while yesterday with the station's national reps. RICHARD WESTERGAARD, manager of WNOX, Knoxville affiliate of CBS, is here on station and network business. RICHARD BOREL, general manager of WBNS, Columbus, Ohio, conferred Wednesday at the offices of CBS, with which the station is affiliated. BERT WOOD, program manager of RCA Recorded Program Service, has arrived in Chicago for a recording date with the new Thesaurus group. ERIC SEVAREID, Columbia network's Washington correspondent, today is in St. Louis to address the Chamber of Commerce and the League of Women Voters at the Hotel Jefferson. His newscast will be broadcast from KMOX. TED NELSON, general manager of WIKK, Erie, Pa., is in town for conferences with his national representatives. PHIL ALAMPI, farm news editor at WJZ and newly-elected vice-president of the NARFD, will spend this week-end in Atlantic City attending the Vocational Agriculture meeting. CHARLES COLLINGWOOD, White House correspondent who also is moderator of "People's Platform" for CBS-TV, is expected in New York today from Key West, Fla., where he accompanied President Truman's vacation party. HERB SHRINER, featured nightly on the Philip Morris CBS video series, has returned from Washington, D. C, where he made an appearance before the American Medical Assn. at the Hotel Statler. PETER DONALD, comedian, is back in town following an engagement in Pittsburgh. On Jan. 6, he'll emcee the "March of Dimes" Follies at Queens College. ROBERTA QUINLAN, television singing star, has returned from a short trip to Hollywood. ELMER DAVIS, American network commentator, in town from Washington to arrange for radio coverage of the annual Radio Correspondents Dinner, which will be held in the Nation's Capital next month. ROBERT MOODY is here. He's the general manager of WHIO, Dayton, Ohio, a Columbia network outlet. Jackie Robinson Signed For New Series On ABC (Continued from Page 1) sports program over the full ABC web January 22 at 10:30 p.m. Program will be heard weekly at the same time. Jackie No Beginner The show, entitled "The Jackie Robinson Sports Show" will be offered to sponsors on a co-op basis. Robinson is an experienced broadcaster. Brewery To Sponsor New Colman Show On ABC (Continued from Page 1) of Ivy," has a situation comedy format with the scene being laid in a small college town. Don Quinn, who built the "Fibber McGee and Molly" show, is credited with creating this show, Walter (Brown Newman will assist with the script and Nat Wolff will direct. 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