Sponsor (Oct-Dec 1962)

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STILL GROWING IN CHICAGO WOPA *N°1 with 300,000 Negroes on CHICAGO'S WEST SIDE ♦NEGRO HOOPER 1961 WOPA • Oak Pork/Chicago 1 JCW. ?£ feMwring CHICAGO'S NO. 1 AIR SALESMAN BIG BILL HILL PERVIS SPAAN, RICHARD STAMM KDIA and WOPA represented by BERNARD HOWARD CO. DIRECTORY OF RADIO STATIONS THE SONDERLING STATIONS Specialists in Specialized Radio WDIA • Memphis WOPA • Oak Park/Chicago KFOX • Long Beach/Los Angeles OAKLAND/SAN FRANCISCO KDIA Independent. McLendon Ebony Radio Group; 90 hrs. (D) . 100% Negro-appeal programing: Deejay, 50%; Religious, 30%; News, 7%; Community service, 12%; Homemaking, 1%. Featured air personalities: Jocko Carter, Bro. Weaver, Jean O. Baylor. Station management: O. M. Teate, station manager. Rep: Bernard Howard. PINE BLUFF Number of Negroes: 1960 Census, 17,501. K0TN am & fm; 250 w. 1490 kc. 28 yrs. on air. Independent; 121 hrs. wkly. 50% Negro-appeal programing: Deejay, 40%; Religious, 5%; News, 2%; Community service, 3%. Featured air personalities: 3 "B's", Bob Robinson, Bob Madison, Buzz Bennett and Oddball, Jerry Jones. Station management: Danny S. Jacobson, manager/sis. mgr. Rep: Hal Walton. KPBA 1 kw. 1590 kc. 5 yrs. on air; Independent; Daytime; 18% Negroappeal programing: Deejay, 7%; Religious, 10%; News, 1%. Featured air personalities: Ken Koonce, Bob Meador, Tom Payton, Ralph Laveaux. Station's management: Howard M. Peters, manager/sis. mgr. Rep: Gene Bolles. Illlllllillllllllllllllllllll CALIFORNIA WHITE POPULATION 14,455,230 NEGRO POPULATION 883,861 NEGRO % 5.6 LOS ANGELES Number of Negroes: 1960 Census, 594,476. KDAY 50 kw 1580 kc. 15 yrs. on air. Independent. Rollins Broadcasting. Daytime. 100% Negroappeal programing: Deejay, 70%; Other music, 10%; News, 10%; Community Service, 10%. Featured air personalities: Willie Bryant, Tommy Smalls, Lonnie Rochon, Johnny Otis, Arthur Lee Simpkins, John Roseboro. Station management: Mel Leeds, general manager. George Gilbreth, sales manager. Rep: Continental. , *Licensed to Santa Monica. KGFJ 1 kw. (D), 250 w. (N). 36 yrs. on air; Independent; 164 hrs. wkly. 100% Negro-appeal programing: Deejay, 55%; Other music, 8%; Religious, 10%; News, 6.5%; Community service, 17%; Other, sports, 3.5%. Featured air personalities: Johnny Magnus, Larry McCormick, Hunter Hancock, Herman Griffith, Rudy Harvey and Joseph Mathews. Station management: Thelma Kirchner, general manager. Molly Low, sales manager. Rep: Bernard Howard. KM LA (fm) 60 kw. 100.3 mc. 5 yrs. on air; Independent; 168 hrs. wkly; 7.1% Negro-appeal programing: Deejay, 12%. Featured air personalities: Vein Stevenson — "Just a Little Jazz"; John J. Anthony — "Comments on the News"; Chico Sesma's — "Latin Holiday." Station's management: J. B. Kiefer, general manager. John L. Sullivan, sales manager. Rep: Fine Music Hi-Fi Broadcasters. SAN FRANCISCO Number of Negroes: 1960 Census, 346,694. KDIA 1 kw. 1310 kc. 40 yrs. on air. Independent, Sonderling Stations, 158 hrs. wkly. 92% Negroappeal programing: Deejay, 70%; Religious, 20%; News, 6%; Community service, 4%. Featured air personalities: "Rosko", Roland Porter, George Oxford, "Big Don", Jeanie Blevins and Wally Ray. 24 SPONSOR NEGRO ISSUE 22 OCTOBER 1962 imrrrr