Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

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2 RADIO DAILY Monday, December 19, 1949 * COfniNG AND GOING * Vol. 49, No. 52 Monday, Dec. 19, 1949 lOCts. 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. Op. 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, 1 V 3 7 . at the postoffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL _ (December 16) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. ABC 9V8 83/4 8% Admiral Corp 175/8 1714 173/8 — % Am. Tel. & Tel 146Vg 146% 1 465/8 + Va CBS A 28% 273/4 2734 — % CBS B 28 28 28 Philco 32 7 8 32S/8 325/8 Philco ofd 82 1/2 82 82V2 + lvi RCA Common 1234 1238 123, Va, StewartWarner . 12B8 n% 12% + Vb Westinghouse 31*8 31 1/2 313/4 — V4 Westinghouse pfd. 10234 102V2 10234 V8 Zenith Radio 31% 31 1/2 31% % NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. 163 g 165/g 163/g '/8 Nat. Union Radio 2% 2'/2 2% + Va OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked DuMont Lab. . . 193/4 203/4 Stromberg-Carlson 103/4 12 WCAO (Baltimore) 17 20 WJR (Detroit) 75-8 8 1/4 Radio Weather Service Planned By Auto Club 'Continued from Page 1) Club of New York, it was announced yesterday. The auto club has arranged to check road conditions with highway police, tunnel officials and others in the area and supply the bulletins to the broadcasters. This year field reporters equipped with two-way radios will roam the area and supply special information. The system will function during the holidays and when weather conditions are bad. The radio line-up includes WCBS, WNBC, WOR. WJZ, WNEW. WMCA, WQXR, WMGM, and WINS. The television stations are WABD and WPIX. H. V. KALTENBORN, commentator on NBC is in Cambridge revisiting his Alma Mater, Harvard University. Yesterday he addressed the Free Enterprise Society on the subject, "Our Divided World." MURRAY S. LEVINE, president and founder of the New York Committee on Atomic Information, tomorrow will leave for Florida to be interviewed on stations in Miami and Miami Beach. FRANK NOVAK, creator of Goodyear's "Hook V Ladder Follies" in 1945 and the present simulcast, "Main Street Follies," off by plane for Toledo, Ohio, where next Friday he'll supervise a full-hour program over Mutual sponsored by the Leader Department Stores. DON SYLVIO, orchstra leader, is back from Chicago and has resumed his baton work at Bill Berfolotti's. MARY C. WILSON, of the "Meet Mary" program on WTTM, Trenton, N. J., is back at the station following a two-week trip through the Scandinavian countries. Miles Buys Two More; One On ABC, One MBS (Continued from Page ll network from 7-7: 05 p.m., starting Jan. 2. Additionally, the firm has bought on the Mutual network the last 15minutes of the "Ladies Fair" program presided over by Tom Moore. The half-hour show is heard from 2-2:30 p.m. Approximately 410 Mutual stations will be used, starting on or about Feb. 6. The Miles product to be advertised on this program has not yet been chosen. Special Campaign Set For DeMille's Picture (Continued from Page II 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. WABD in New York will televise the opening of the picture. The movie will be shown nationally after January 20 in more than 20 cities with radio spots and 30second TV trailers being run in the areas. The agency handling the promotion is Buchanan & Co., Inc. Jones Leaves Agency; Keck Takes His Post Chicago — William E. Jones, director of radio and television at Henri, Hurst & McDonald, Inc., in Chicago, for the past six years, has resigned effective Dec. 31, to operate as an independent program package producer and consultant in radio and television with headquarters in Chicago. His successor will be John Scott Keck who has been associated with NBC for several years. Keck, Recording Manager of NBC, also functions in several other capacities for the network, particularly as a radio director for several advertising agencies including many agency radio departments not prepared to meet the creative needs of their clients. He will officially begin heading up the radio and television department of HH&McD on Jan. 3. , CHET HUNTLEY, West Coast newscaster for CBS, is back in Hollywood following a sixweek tour of Europe. KEN MURRAY, starrted on CBS-TV, has left for the West Coast to spend the Christmas holidays. He'll be back Dec. 29 in time to make final arrangements for his new video series, which is scheduled to make its bow Jon. 7. A. F. MARTIN, JR., general manager of WKPT, affiliate of NBC in Kingsport, Tenn., was in conference yesterday with station relations executives of the web. ARTHUR WHITNEY, staff writer for the Herb Sheldon show on ABC, off by plane for Miami, where he'll spend the week-end. He wrote the show ahead for this period. STERLING FISHER, monager of the public affairs and education deportment at NBC, on Monday will be in Louisville, Ky., to attend the University of Louisville's conference on Home-Study-Education-By-Radio courses, which are conducted in conjunction with NBC programs. New Advertising Staff Of Lever Bros. Announced (Continued from Page 1) ager for Surf, Lifebuoy and Swan while Paul Laidley, Jr. will be an assistant for these brands. George B. t Smith will be brand advertising manager for Rinso, Spray and Breeze with William Scully as the assistant for the accounts. Howard Bloomquist is the brand advertising manager for Lux Toilet Soap, Lux Flakes and Silver Dust. Stephen Witham is assistant manager. George T. Duram is media direc j tor and is assisted by John P. Doyle and Richard Dube. John R. Allen j fills the new post of television manager. The department is temporarily lo ; cated at 80 Varick Street pending J completion of the new Lever Building in New York. WSB Gives Fax Station To Southern University (Continued from Page I) medium to students and to experiment with the transmission of various type-faces. The presentation was made by John M. Outler, Jr.. station general manager. Tobacco Company Buys "Dr. I. Q." On ABC Stations (Continued from Page 1) 11 years with Lew Valentine starred in the title role. Program time is 8 to 8:30 p.m., Wednesdays. Agency is Geyer, Newell & Ganger, Inc. SESAC Plays Santa SESAC, Inc. for the last month has been sending as a special Christmas gift to all of their subscribers, bonus releases to build up substantially the number of tunes in the SESAC Library. The last of these bonus shipments go out this week which will bring up every subscriber to more than 2,500 numbers at the present time. They work for peanuts Always a big attraction at the circus are the performing elephants. But they do a lot of hard work for their owners, too. And they do it all for peanuts. Sounds like a story about W-I-T-H. It's a big attraction for listeners and advertisers in the rich Baltimore market. And W-I-T-H works for you like a Trojan — for peanuts! Yes, for very little money you can do real big things on W-I-T-H. For W-I-T-H delivers more listeners-per-dollar than any other station in town. So, if you want to make your advertising dollar go far in Baltimore, buy W-I-T-H. Your Headley-Reed man will gladly give you the whole story. Baltimore 3, Maryland TOM TINSLEY, President R«pr«Mnt«4 by H«a4l«y-R*«4