Radio showmanship (Jan-Dec 1949)

Sports — Music Show Debuts "A Day at the Races," a combined sports and musical program, is making its debut over WNAC and the Yankee Net' work, Boston, directly from Suffolk Downs and Yankee studios. Program will be aired each day from 2:30 to 5 P. M. and will continue through October. Program spotlight will be turned on the call of two races daily plus the feature race on Wednesday and Saturday from Suffolk Downs, Narragansett and Rockingham during the turf season. Babe Rubenstein will give the call of the two races on Saturday and will also relay results and prices of all races up to 5 P. M. after they are posted. Gus Saunders will interview celebrities, owners and jockies while W'nifred Pike will be in the Paddock Club each day to give the woman's angle. From Yankee studios Ken Rapieff will add the latest news plus baseball scores and play rewordings of popular hit tunes. • Program Helps Home Buyer To help the individual home buyer in purchasing his house, the Homebuilders Association of Allegheny County is sponsoring a series of weekly broadcasts titled "Your Home." The new show will be heard each Sunday at 12:45 P. M. over WCAE, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. First third of each program will be devoted to questions submitted by the audience on construction, decorating, landscaping problems. Second portion of the show will feature a guest speaker who will discuss the best time to build, what type of home in which to invest. For the final five minutes a "Housing Guide" highlighting several home buys will be presented. Members of the Homebuilders Association are conducting the series. • Mr. and Mrs. Team Returns Detroit's only Mr. and Mrs. radio team is returning to the airwaves over WJBK each Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:05 to 10:30 A. M. Tony Weitzel, widely-known columnist 20 and his wife, Dorothy, are presenting a streamlined version of their informal chatter, gossip and interviews three mornings each week. They are covering town gossip, a poignant daily true story, reviews of stage and screen, plus interviews with top celebrities. The Mr. and Mrs. team was inaugurated in 1946 with a daily broadcast of luncheon chatter which emanated from Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel. Three Record Shows Bow on WFIL "Your Symphony," one of three new programs of recorded music scheduled by WFIL Philadelphia, is being aired each Thursday from 9 to 9:30 P. M. The program will be devoted to serious music recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra. A weekly half-hcur program of familiar tunes is being aired at 2 P. M. each Sunday under the title, "Do You Remember?" Emphasis wi'l be on nostalgic compositions suited to Sunday relaxation. "Console Moods," the third new show, is set for Thursdays from 10:30 to 11 P. M. Organ music will be featured. WCKY Quiz Features Mystery Tune Cincinnati's oldest telephone quiz giveaways, WCKY's "Quiz Man" programs, are being dropped for a new package show, "Name that Tune," a mystery song telephone quizzer to be aired every weekday from 9:05 to 10 A.M. Listeners will be awarded money prizes for answering the name of tune being played when they are called. If the answer is correct, the participant will have a chance to identify the mystery tune which carries the "jackpot award" of at least $100. Two dollars are added each time the mystery tune title is missed. • Serious Music Starred WFIL Philadelphia has scheduled a new program of classical recorded music, featuring serious music on RCAVictor records. The show will be aired nightly from 1 1 :30 to midnight, under the title, "Music When You Want It." RADIO SHOWMANSHIP