Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Friday. December 23. 1949 Vol. 49, No 56 Friday, Dec. 23, 1949 10 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE : : Publisher FRANK BURKE : : : : : Editor MARVIN KIRSCH : Business Manager Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays ami 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. Aliconte, 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. C.-jble 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 Tata, Manager. 812 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 postomce at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL (December 22) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE High Low Close ABC 85/8 83/8 85/8 Admiral Corp. 18'8 '738 1858 Am. Tel. 8, Tel. T45V2 14334 145V2 CBS A 27'/4 26% 27V8 CBS B 271/4 27l/8 27' 8 Philco 3234 31 5/8 32V2 RCA Common 1234 12'/2 '234 RCA 1st pfd 721/2 72'/2 721/2 Stewart-Warner 12'/8 12 12l/8 Westinghouse . 315/8 31'/8 31 5/8 Westinghouse pfd 1 04 1/4 104V4 104% Zenith Radio 33 323/8 33 NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. 163/8 161/8 163/8 Nat. Union Radio 25/8 2'/2 2% OVER THE COUNTER Bid DuMont Lab 145/8 Stromberg-Carlson 11 Net Chg. + V4 + VA + % + % + Vi + l'/4 + Vt + Va + + + + 1 + Vb Asked 155/s 121/4 Transatlantic Program Set French students from the Sorbonne will exchange views with two American students on the subject "Is Youth Preparing for World Citizenship?" during a transatlantic broadcast over WQXR on Saturday. December 31 from 10:15 to 10:45 p.m. Moderators will be located on both sides of the Atlantic when the broadcast is recorded earlier. Xmas Messages By Stars Christmas messages from top entertainers will be presented by WMCA tomorrow, December 24 from 2:03 to 3 p.m. Perry Como, Guy Lombardo, Dinah Shore, Tony Martin, Vaughn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Xavier Cugat, Lena Home, Sammy Kaye, Gordon MacRae and Ray McKinley are among the stars who have recorded messages for the program. * COITIING AND GOING * J. L. VAN VOLKENBURG, vice-president of the Columbia network in charge of television operations, has returned to the New York headquarters of the web following a business trip to Hollywood. JOHN DERR, ossociate sports director for the Columbia network, tomorrow will leave for Miami, where he will set up arrangements for the network's broadcast of the Orange Bowl football game, which will be played on January 2. ALBERT H. JAEGGIN, night news writer for WOR, today will leave by train for Baltimore, there to spend the holidays on the nearby family estate. JUDSON BAILEY, of the Columbia network sports staff, has left for his home town in West Virginia, where he plans to spend the Christmas season. JACK BENNY and DINAH SHORE are back in Hollywood after having visited Houston, Texas, where they were starred in benefit performances for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, the National Kids Day Foundation and Holly Hall. NORMAN LIVINGSTON, commercial program operations manager for WOR and WORTV, has left on an eight-day cruise to Nassau, in the Bahamas JACK MAAS, newswriter for the American Broadcasting Company, is back at his Radio City desk after having spent two weeks of leisure in Florida. SARAH BERNER, who plays the part of the telephone operator on the Jack Benny program over CBS, has returned to Hollywood following a vacation of three weeks in New York. Grand Central Viewpoint | Record Players And Discs Given At PSC Hearing I Promoted For Hospitals (Continued from Page 1) the PSC because of complaints received about the system moved through their second day with another hearing and possibly the final one being scheduled for today. A psychiatrist had testified on Wednesday that the music and commercials might produce ulcers or other illnesses, but Dr. Hyslop said yesterday that "the broadcasts certainly wouldn't give me any ulcers." A division chairman at the terminal for the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks. Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees, Edward T. Butler, said that none of the employees in the terminal had complained of the broadcasts. He went on to say that jobs would not be as secure without the revenue from the programs. One witness who identified himself as a New York Central Railroad stockholder. Irving Taylor, told the PSC that he was opposed to the presentations by the Terminal Broadcasting Company. Other persons testifying were Sherman Gregory, general manager of the broadcast system and representatives of Fact Finder Associates, who reported in a poll that about 85 per cent of (Continued from Page 1) gram and the childrens' recordings were the donations of seven recording companies. Those providing the records were RCA-Victor, Capitol. MGM, Adventure. Caravan. Decca and Columbia. Block will make the presentations to Marcus D. Kogel. commissioner of hospitals in New York, at the Gouvernor Hospital today. 'Rebuttal" Package Show Sold To Muntz On MBS (Continued from Page 1) will pick up tab. Show will be produced in New York by John Reddy and will include both live and taped material. First of its kind, program will provide a rebuttal for people who have been attacked in press which allowed them no chance to talk back. the persons interviewed in the station were in favor of the programs. The broadcasts are presented 17 hours a day from 7 a.m. to midnight from a control booth on the balcony of the terminal. The system began on October 1 of this year. 50,000 warn at 800kc. Now covering a 17,000,000 population area at the lowest rate of any major station in the Detroit Area! "WIN With CKLW CKLW Detroit and Windsor J. E. Campeau, President Adam J. Young, Jr., Nat'l Rep. • Canadian Rep., H. N. Stovin & Co. Taking it easy This strange looking bird is a Malayan Wood Ibis. And he's now taking a little nap. 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