Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Friday, December 16. 1949 Vol. 49, No. 51 Friday, Dec. 16, 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. Alico£jte, 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 Ktishner. Manager 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone: Gladstone 8436 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older. Chief 6417 Dahlontg* 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 3518-8 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 15) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE High Low Close 9 Vt 85/g 8% . 18 173/j, 173/4 1461/2 146'/4 146l/2 28 Va 275/8 281/s 273/4 321/4 12i/2 72i/2 12V4 102 32 ABC Admiral Corp. Am. Tel. & Tel CBS A CBS B 28 Philco 325/8 RCA Common 123,4 RCA 1st pfd. 721/2 Stewart-Warner 123/8 Westinghouse 32 Westinghouse pfd. 102 Zenith Radio 325/8 NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. 16% 165/„ 163/4 Nat. Union Radio 25/8 2Vz 2S/8 OVER THE COUNTER Bid DuMont Lab 145/8 Stromberg-Carlson lOVi 28 325/8 125/g 721/2 121/4 31'/8 102 32 Net Chg. + Va — % — V4 + % + Vt Asked 155/g 113/4 Godfrey Sweeps 1949 Poll Of Cleveland Plain Dealer 'Continued from Page 1) opinion. Clevelanders selected Godfrey for most popular program, most popular personality and most popular variety show. The three category sweep is the first such event in the twenty year history of the poll. CBS, for whom Godfrey broadcasts, also placed a number of other "most populars" including: Lowell Thomas, most popular network newscaster; Eve Arden ("Our Miss Brooks"), most popular comedienne; Bing Crosby, most popular male singer; Dinah Shore, most popular female singer; "Lux Radio Theater," best dramatic show, and Symphonettc," which was heard on CBS, best semi-classical music series. * COmiNG AND GOING A D. W. THORNBURGH, president and general manager of WCAU, Philadelphia, in town yesterday for conferences with officials of the Columbia network. MICHAEL FONDE, engineer at WTTM, Trenton, N. J., is bock on the job following a 14-day visit to his birthplace, the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. MICHAEL HANNA, general manager of WHCU, Ithaca, N. Y., paid a call yesterdoy at the headquarters of CBS, with which the station is affiliated. J. L. VAN VOLKENBURG, Columbia network vice-president and director of television operations, has arrived in Hollywood. He'll spend the next ten days in the film capital. TED OBERFELDER, American network director of advertising and promotion, hos returned from an extensive trip to Dallas, Houston and Miami. MIKE DAMN, trade editor ot NBC, and his bride, have returned from their honeymoon in Nassau, Bahamas. Mrs. Dann is the former Joanne Himmel, of the network's "Tex and Jinx" program. RAMON BONACHEA, Cuban government delegate to the NARBA conference in Montreal, stopped off in New York Wednesday en route to Havana. Senor Bonachea is also counsel for Goor Mestre's CMQ in Havona. RAYMOND F. GUY, manager of radio and allocations in the engineering department of NBC, has returned from Montreal, scene of the recent NARBA conference. HERMAN FAST, general manager of WKRC, Columbia network outlet in Cincinnati, a visitor yesterday ot the offices of the web. ROBERT QUINLAN, singing star of the Mohowk Knitting Mills video show on NBC-TV, is in town from Amsterdam, N. Y., with the Mohawk Mixed Choir. They'll be seen and heard tonight. CHARLES COLLINGWOOD, Columbia network commentator, today will fly in from Key West, Fla., in time for the "People's Platform" television show. GUIDO CANTELLI, guest conductor on the NBC Symphony program following the current Toscanini series, has arrived from Italy. He will be on the podium for four successive concerts starting Dec. 24. FRANK MULLEN, television consultant, left for the West Coast Wednesday following conferences with executives of the Daily News, operators of WPIX. JOHN GUEDEL, producer of "People Are Funny" on NBC; ART LINKLETTER, emcee, and IRVIN ATKINS, production manager, leave today for the West Coast following a week in New York. Radio Theater Leads In Two Nielsen Reports (Continued from Page 1) the "Top Twenty" include: "My Friend Irma," 19.5; "Amos 'n Andy," 17.5; Charlie McCarthy, 17.5; Bob Hope, 17.4; "FBI in Peace and War," 17.1; "Mr. Keen," 16.8; Walter Winchell. 16.5. Also: "Fibber McGee and Molly," 16.4; "Mr. Chameleon." 16.0; "Crime Photographer," 15.9; Bob Hawk, 15.9; "Mystery Theater," 15.8; "Inner Sanctum," 15.5; "Suspense," 15.4; Red Skelton, 15.4; "Day in the Life of Dennis Day," 15.2; and "Dr. Christian," 14.5. West Coast Ratings Listed. Nielsen West Coast ratings for the October period showed "Radio Theater" first with 23.4; "People Are Funny" second with 23.3; Charlie McCarthy third with 21.5. Others in the Pacific Coast "Top Twenty" for the same period are: "Fibber McGee and Molly," 21.0; Red Skelton, 21.0; Judy Canova, 20.2; "Grand Ole Opry," 19.1; "The Whistler," 19.0; Bob Hope, 18.9; "Our Miss Brooks," 18.7; "Mr. District Attorney," 18.2; Dennis Day, 18.1; "Let George Do It," 17.6; Jack Benny, 17.5; Horace Heidt Show, 17.2; "Mystery Theater," 16.9; "My Friend Irma," 16.3; "Great Gildersleeve," 16.2; Bing Crosby, 16.2; Jimmy Durante, 15.6. FMA Sees 'Dire Results' From Cuban Interference Premiere Of Picture Gets Full MBS Network (Continued from Page 1) while Arthur Van Horn will be at the Rivoli in Hollywood. Cecil IB. deMille, producer of the epic, will speak from Hollywood in addition to Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Alan Ladd, Angela Lansbury, Ray Milland, George Sanders and Barbara Stanwyck. Victor Mature, Samson in the film, will speak from the West Coast while Delilah of the (Continued from Page 1) mands for dual use of hitherto protested frequencies, FMA said it may become "impossible for listeners to tune in one station without simultaneously picking up an interferring program broadcast by a Cuban station at the same place on the dial." FMA said "the battle of the airwaves now poses a virtual life-ordeath threat to the markets of hundreds of small AM stations in such states as Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South and North Carolina." FMA urged AM broadcasters in these states — particularly in Florida because of its geographic proximity to Cuba — to plan now for one hundred per cent transition to FM, terming FM "the only means left to American broadcasters to recapture audiences that will be lost to them because of Cuban interference." FMA further said the basis for the transition to FM in Florida is already established because although AM stations outnumber FM three to one in Florida, the FM stations already serve areas larger than those served by AM. AM coverage in Florida will continue to shrink. FMA asserted, as Cuba expands its AM outlets both in power as well as number. The degree of ease in which the transition can be made will depend largely on the extent of co-operation the broadcasters get from the set manufacturers, FMA added. Broadcasters were warned that before they can effect such a transition, they must first obtain an ironclad guarantee from the set manufacturers that they will produce reasonably priced, high quality FM receivers in sufficient numbers to meet public demand. movie, Hedy Lamarr, will be heard from New York. Chipmunks are not usually trained animals. But this one's owner built him a little house. When Mr. Chip gets through his day's foraging, he says goodbye and goes "home." 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