Sponsor (July-Dec 1949)

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.

uism ... follow any UJUIII listener . . . to town THE KEY TO CONSUME PREFERENCE WSM NASHVILLE There are millions of WSM listeners, in a circle with many hundreds of miles radius. They are all kinds of people— urban, rural, rich and poor. Pick any family, or any hundred families— and follow them to town. Watch them buy. Then check what they have bought against the list of WSM sponsors— and you'll see what we mean when we talk about the exceptional pulling power of WSM. Then ask those families why they buy from the WSM list, why is it so definitely their shopping guide? The answer will be very simple. "We've been listening to WSM for a right long time, now, and we never have had cause to disbelieve anything we hear on it." Is there, anywhere, a more powerful background for selling? .WSMi tional nets are among those who tell their stories elaborately and often. Beyond the extra service regional chains are in a position to render advertisers, they form an important testing ground for both products and new programs and commericial techniques. A variation on this theme is being developed in Oklahoma by the Oklahoma Group Broadcasters, and in Alabama by Associated Broadcasting Service (see No Telephone Lines, SPONSOR 4 July 1949, p. 30 1 . In these operations key FM stations, KOCY-FM, Oklahoma City, and WBRC-FM. Birmingham, feed regular programs and special events to groups of AM affiliates via FM relay. Under the ABS arrangement affiliates take 17 hours of WBRC I AM I programing daily, more than half of which is live. An advertiser can buy various blocks of the 24 affiliated local AM stations. Most of them are low-powered and they cover the length and breadth of Alabama. The case is similar with OGB. and one check to the network takes care of the bookkeeping. Both nets make sports events, top regional and local sports, available to affiliates that on their own could not afford them, or to whom the events FALL AND WINTER SCHEDULES NEED w T R AM-FM F HARRY STONE, Gen. Mgr. • IRVING WAUGH. Com. Mgr. • EDWARD PETRY & CO., Notional Rep. 30,009 WATTS • CLEAR CHANNEL • 650 KILOCYCLES • NBC AFFILIATE Covering the Prosperous Greater Wheeling Market From BELLAIRE, OHIO Represented by THE WALKER COMPANY 50 SPONSOR