Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

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2 RADIO DAILY Monday. December 12. 1949 jitney Vol. 49, No. 47 Monday, Dec. 12, 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. Alicoate, 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 Tats, 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 postoffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL {December 9) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Corp. (N) & Tel. . . . ABC Admiral Am. Tel CBS A CBS B Philco RCA Common RCA 1st pfd Stewart-Warner . . . Westinghouse Westinghouse pfd. Zenith Radio NEW YORK Hazeltine Corp. . . Nat. Union Radio . High 83/8 16 V4 1485/8 1 273/4 27% 30'/2 131/g 733/4 123/s 31i/4 .102 303/4 CURB 16% 25/8 Low Close 81/4 83/8 153/8 I6I/4 48% 148 V4 26% 273/4 27 275/8 2934 3034 12% 12% 733/8 733/8 123/s 12% 30% 311/4 102 102 305/g 3034 EXCHANGE 163/4 1634 21/2 2% OVER THE COUNTER Bid DuMont Lab 14 Stromberg-Carlson 11 14 WCAO (Baltimore) 17 WJR (Detroit) 7% Net Chg. + 'l" % + 1/2 + % + V4 % % + "% + 1/2 '/4 % + % Asked 15 121/2 20 8 Former NAB Executive Joins Staff Of WHAS (Continued from Page 1) KOIL, Omaha, and has worked at WBBM in Chicago, WBEN, Buffalo, and WHO, Des Moines. In 1947 he became director of the program department of NAB. McTigue Joins WINS John D. McTigue, former ABC official, has been named production manager of WINS. McTigue was with NBC before joining ABC in 1941 as publicity director. After a tour of duty with OWI, he returned to ABC as assistant manager of special events. In the year 1947-48, he was on the standing committee of broadcasters at the UN. Top Ten News Events Selected By Networks Press chiefs at the four major networks, in response to a Radio Daily query, last week compiled their interpretations of the top radio news stories thus far in 1949. Ther selections follow: ABC By THOMAS VELOTTA Russia Gets The A-Bomb Lifting of the Berlin Blockade Chinese Communist Win Formation of the North Atlantic Alliance Tito's Break With Moscow Devaluation of the British Pound Conviction of 11 Communist leaders Pickup in Business Armed Forces Unification Fight The Kathy Fiscus Tragedy Mutual By ABE SCHECHTER Russia's Atomic Explosion Navy's Challenge of Defense Policies Communists Sweep China Devaluation of British Pound U. S. Treason Trials Labor Strikes For Pensions Yugoslavia Breaks With The Kremlin Air Crashes The Struggle To Save Kathy Fiscus American & National League Pennant Races NBC By WILLIAM BROOKS Russia's Atomic Explosion Unification And Forrestal's Suicide The Western Counter Attack in The Cold War The Drive on Subversives The "Five Percenters" The Communists Take China The Church Fights Back, Tito Defies The Kremlin The Welfare State; Coal and Steel Strikes, Drive Against the Taft-Hartley Act, 1950 elections Devaluation of Foreign Currencies The "Veep" and His Bride CBS By ED CHESTER Russia's Atomic Explosion Communist, and Hiss and CopIon, Trials The Atlantic Pact Devaluation of Non-Dollar currencies Soviet Clashes with Vatican and Tito Peace in Palestine Labor's Moves for Pension Security Unification Hearing and Forrestal Suicide Washington's "Five Percenters" The "Veep's" Romance Name Weaver Chairman Of Heart Fund Committee WDSU Plans Coverage Of Grid Classic On AM-TV (Continued from Page 1) Rubicam, Inc.; Gael Sullivan, executive director of the Theater Owners of America; Louis Ruppel, editor-in-chief of Collier's; Willard F. Greenwald, research director of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd.; and motion picture actress Irene Dunne. Others Included Also included on the committee are: Dr. Robert P. Fischelis, secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association; Mrs. Arthur "Bugs" Baer, chairman of the 1950 New York Heart Campaign; Henry Hoke, publisher, The Report of Direct Mail Advertising; Ted Cott, WINS program director; and John M. Paver, president of the National Outdoor Advertising Bureau, Inc. Maurice Odquist, account executive of Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.; Samuel Lebensburger, Cappel, MacDonald & Company v-p; and Robert Gray, advertising sales promotion for the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey complete the committee. (Continued from Page 1) WDSU and televised locally by WDSU-TV, Robert D. Sweezey, general manager of the stations has announced. Gillette will sponsor the ABC broadcast as well as the telecast. Wismer At Mike Commentator Harry Wismer will cover the play-by-play of the game which this year pits the Oklahoma Sooners against the Louisiana State Tigers. WDSU-TV will have its sports director, Mel Leavitt, to handle the mike chores. Sweezey says the tee-vee station will carry all bowl-sponsored events with the exception of yachting and tennis. ABC will also cover Sugar Bowl boxing and basketball as well as a portion of the Sportsmen's Dinner at Antoine's the night before the football game. The coverage is the most extensive in the midwinter sports associations 16 years of sports promotion. Pampered Persian You're looking at a portrait of one of the most precious cats in the world — a pampered Persian— highly treasured by its owners. They wouldn't part with it for love or money. Lots of radio advertisers feel just that way about W-I-T-H in Baltimore. Once they've discovered how this BIG independent produces such low-cost sales, they stick to W-I-T-H year in, year out. 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