Sponsor (Oct-Dec 1960)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

graining, promotion, advertising, merchandising, broadcasting laws, and a score of other radio industry subjects. The book is entitled Radio Station Management. Ideas at work: For crying out loud: WIL, St. Louis, is paying out good money for weepers. The idea: listeners are encouraged to send along their weepiest hard-luck story for consideration in the station's Loser's Contest. The hard-luck story that really tugs at the hearts of the contest judges wins a $100 prize. The last word: KABC, LA.. proved that women are more adept with words when the station's Timebuyers Contest was won by four members of the buying profession distaff side. The contest: timebuyers were asked to contribute the best one word description of KABC's programing and personalities. The winners: Ruth Johnson (Milton Carlson), Sandy I Dare (Beckman, Koblitz). Claire Moses (The Goodman Organization) and Dorothy Staff (Grant Advertis More ideas at work : Help from KELP: KELP, El Paso, played mother's helper by treating the ladies to a morning off. The scheme: the gals were invited to the leading downtown theater to see, free, a special showing of a movie. To add to the occasion, the station arranged a baby-sitting service for the youngsters and a follow-up treat of a snacktype breakfast of coffee and dough Happy birthday: KNX, L.A., celebrating its 40th anniversary. Station acquisition: KFOX-AM FM, Long Beach, Calif., purchased by Max Resnick and Robert Symonds, from Kenyon Brown, Bing Crosby, and Kevin Sweeney for $850,000. Sale brokered by Blackburn & Company, Washington, D. C. Thisa 'n' data: KOIL, Omaha, playing coffee break host to business offices by serving coffee in the a.m. The special KOIL treat is obtained by a phone call from employer to station . . . WCKR, Miami, keeping teenagers busy counting station call letters painted on a wildly-painted auto — Krazy Kar. The winner gets the Kar, paint, call-letters, and all . . . KXOK, St. Louis, increasing its United Nations News service to keep pace with current events . . . WKNB, West Hartford, Conn., kept telephone company frantic when the station received some 7,264 phone calls during one week when listeners called asking for sports scores, a service promoted by the station. Sports notes: Lee Adam Pontiac agency to co-sponsor Notre Dame football games over KGO, San Francisco . . . Monroe Auto Equipment and Pontiac Motors Division, GMC, to sponsor ten-game Notre Dame football schedule over WFIL, Philadelphia. Kudos: WPON, Pontiac, Mich., news director Larry Payne recipient of Michigan Associated Press Broad