Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

Wednesday, December 14, 194< RADIO PAILY= = I ' * J I J Vol. 49, No. 49 Wed., Dec. 14, 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 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 postoffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL ' (December 13) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE High Low Close ABC 8% 81/g 8V4 Admiral Corp 19 18% 183,4 Am. Tel. & Tel. .1461/2 146'/4 146'/2 CBS A 28'/4 27'/2 28 CBS B 28 Philco 3J38 RCA Common ... . 133/8 Stewart-Warner . . . 12'/2 Westinghouse 31% 31 '/2 Westinghouse pfd. 102 102 Zenith Radio .... 33'/4 NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. 16% 16% 16% Nat. Union Radio 2% 2l/2 1% OVER THE COUNTER Bid DuMont Lab 14% Stromberg-Carlson 10% Net Chg. + % + % + % 27% 32% 131/4 121/4 32% 28 33 131/4 12 3/8 31% 102 33 + % + Va + % + 1/4 + % Asked 15% 12 Insurance Co. Renews World News Roundup "World News Round-Up," CBS co-op series, has been renewed for 52 weeks starting December 31 by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. over WCBS. Program is a Monday through Saturday early morning presentation with Ned Calmer reporting from New York and features round the world pickups. Young and Rubicam, Inc., is the agency. * C0IT1ING AND GOING * WENDELL CAMPBELL and TONY MOE have returned to WCCO, Minneapolis, following a short trip to New York for conferences with Columbia network executives. KENDALL FOSTER, newly-elected vice-president in charge of television for the William Esty Co., has arrived by plane in Hollywood, where fie will arrange the taking over of the Ed Wynn video show for Camels, client of the agency. HARRY LA MERTHA, radio editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and JIM SPENCER, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, are en route back to Missouri none the worse for having exposed themselves to guest shots on the Arthur Godfrey show over CBS on Tuesday morning. HILDA WATSON, office manager of the NBC public affairs and education department, on Dec. 22 will fly to England to spend 10 days of the Christmas season with her family. WILLIAM THORPE, member of the sales department at WFBL, Syracuse, N. Y., and his bride are honeymooning in New York. DAVE GARROWAY, comedian and master of ceremonies whose morning program is heard on NBC from Chicago, today will leave the Windy City for Philadelphia by way of New York. He'll broadcast today's program from Radio City and then will head for Philly, where he will receive an award from the Junior Advertising Club. J. B. CONLEY, general manager of Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc., who has been recuperating from a recent operation, is spending several weeks at Miami Beach with MRS. CONLEY and daughter, Nancy Jean. CLIFFORD GOLDSMITH, writer of the "Aldrich Family" scripts for television, who spent the past few weeks in New York setting details for the program, has returned to Tucson, Ariz., from which point he will script the feature. HARRY WISMER, American network sportscaster, on Sunday will be in Los Angeles, where he will broadcast the vital gridiron contest between the Los Angeles Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles for the National Professional Football Championship. Lee Bland Will Head WCCO Program Dept. (Continued from Page 1) formerly associated with WCMI, Ashland, Ky.; WKRC and WCKY, Cincinnati; and WFMJ, Youngstown, Ohio. While at CBS, Bland worked closely with Norman Corwin and made a round-the-world trip with the writer-director-actor recording documentary material for use in the web series "One World." Bland edited more than 150 hours of broadcasts for this series. In 1947, he became assistant director of the CBS documentary unit and was named to assist special events director later that year. Burdick A. Testrail Montreal— Burdick (Bert) A. Testrail, industrial and merchandising counsellor, died Saturday, December 10, at Toronto General Hospital after a prolonged illness. Pioneer in radio in the early 1920's, Mr. Testrail became vice-president of the Rogers Majestic Corp., Ltd., in 1929, and at the same time president of the Canadian Radio Corporation, Ltd., distributing company for Rogers, DeForest, Majestic and Motorola radios and Norge and Apex electrical appliances. A native of Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Testrail came to Canada in 1912 from the Babson Statistical Services in New York as advertising manager of the old R. S. Williams and Sons Co., Ltd., musical instrument distributors, in Toronto. Enlisting in the first World War, he went overseas with the U. S. Army in 1917. Stork News Washington — Deborah Ann Brechner, born Friday, December 2, ought to be a star, if heredity has anything to do with it. Her father, Daniel, is an engineer at WWDC here; her uncle Joe is general manager of WGAY, Silver Spring, Md.; and another uncle Sidney Brechner, is an engineer at WJR, Detroit, Record Nov. Business Reported By WGAR (Continued from Page 1) history of the station, one of the Richards group. Included in new business for November was six-a-week ten-minute news broadcast for Shell Oil and heavy announcement schedule for Hudson Motors, Kaiser-Fraser, Dodge and P & G for Prell. November renewals included sixa-week quarter-hour morning news for Metropolitan Life, six-a-week morning quarter-hour for Simonize and announcement schedule for following: Ajax Cleanser, Ward Baking, Halo Shampoo, Tenderleaf Tea, Blue Bonnet Margarine and Carr-Consolidated Biscuits. George said the business outlook for 1950 is bright. Station And Newspaper Raising Fund For Boy Huntington, W. Va.— WHTN and the Huntington Publishing Co. have started a fund to provide a Merry Christmas for an 11-year-old youngster who is fighting a losing battle against incurable cancer. With merchants, business men and other people of Huntington now offering their support for the boy, Frank Harris, and his widowed mother, the only question remaining is whether the boy will live until December 25. The fund began on a broadcast of Lan Singer's Sport Round-up and reached $200 within 15 minutes. More than $1300 has now been raised. Other gifts include a free turkey and toys for the stricken youth. Motorola Dividend Motorola, Inc .will pay a 37 V2 cent quarterly dividend on common stock on January 16. The directors of the company also declared a special of 37s/2 cents payable on the same date. A 25 cent dividend was declared in previous quarters. 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