Television digest and FM reports (Jan-Dec 1946)

From a peak of some 150 applicants for low-band TV, only 41 remain in the pending file — and it may be anticipated there will be further withdrawals from among them. Last *week there was one withdrawal, that of E. Anthony & Sons Inc. (New Bedford Standard-Times) from Boston. This leaves the following applicants still on file; Riverside, Cal. — Broadcasting Corp. of America (KPRO). San Francisco — American Broadcasting Co. (KGO) ; Associated Broadcasters Inc. (KSFO) ; Don Lee (KFRC) ; Hughes Tool Co. ; Dorothy S. Thackrey (KYA) ; San Francisco Chronicle. Stockton, Cal. — E. F. Peffer (KGDM). Darien, Conn. — Connecticut Television Co. Jacksonville, Fla. — Jacksonville Broadcasting Corp. (WPDQ) . Chicago — American Broadcasting Co. (WENR) ; Raytheon Mfg. Co.; WGN Inc. (Chicago Tribune). Indianapolis — William H. Block Co. Ames, la. — Iowa State College (V/OI). Louisville — Courier-Journal & Times Co. (WHAS) . New Orleans — Maison Blanche Co. (WSMB). Boston — New England Theatres Inc. (Paramount) ; Westinghouse Radio Stations (WBZ) . Detroit — United Detroit Theatres Corp. (Paramount). St. Louis — Pulitzer Publishing Co. (KSD and Post-Dispatch). Buffalo — WBEN Inc. (Buffalo News). Cincinnati — Crosley Corp. (WLW) ; Allen B. DuMont Laboratories Inc. ; Institutum Divi Thomae Foundation. Cleveland — Allen B. DuMont Laboratories Inc. ; Scripps-Koward Radio Inc. Columbus — Crosley Corp. Dayton — Crosley Corp. Toledo — Fort Industry Co. (WSPD) ; Toledo Blade Co. Johnstown, Pa. — WJAC Inc. Philadelphia — William Penn Broadcasting Co. (WPEN-Philadelphia Bulletin) ; Philadelphia Inquirer (V/FIL) ; Philadelphia Daily News. Pittsburgh — Allen B. DuJylont Laboratories Inc. V/ilkes-Barre , Pa. — Louis G. Baltimore (WBRE) , Nashville — J. W. Birdwell, Dallas — Interstate Circuit Inc. (Paramount); KRLD Radio Corp ( Times-Herald) . Seattle — Radio Sales Corp. (KRSC) . V/21 SUSSSST ¥0U KSilB: Plenty of good reading matter about radio, in its various facets, if you're inclined that v/ay these summer days. There's Frederic Wakeman's "The Hucksters" which all the radio advertising fraternity seems to be relishing — a devastating satire on agency-sponsor relationship grov/ing out of the„ author's experience on the Lucky Strike account ... .well worth reading. Among .n / books also, there is Fielden Farrington's "The Big Noise," another iconoclastic novel about radio, this one's hero starting his career as announcer on a Terre Haute local, working up by devious and backbiting steps to Radio City, his own agency and all that....v/e haven't read it yet, but the publisher's blurb calls it "a mature novel about mature people going crazy in a crazy business." On the periodical side, there's a lot of reading matter of m.ore intimate TV-FM trade interest. If you've read James Shouse's speech, or reports on his speed detracting FM before National Editorial Assn. (Vol. 2, No. 25), by all means read the letter of reply by Maj . Armstrong published in the June 31 Broadcasting ; not much more need be said on the subject, except perhaps the comment that Jimmy Shouse astute business man and chief of the nation's most v/idely propagated station (WLW), stepped out of his depth that time. You may find it worth your while to read the talk on "Radio Tomorrov;; FM" which the editor of these reports delivered at the Pacific Advertising Assn, convention in Spokane last week. Martin Codel is still laid up v/ith a bad case of blood poisoning contracted v/hile fishing in Puget Sound, but we'll send you a copy of his talk on request. He tells us also to recommend that you TVers write to Ted Smith, TV manager of J. Walter Thompson Co.'s Hollyv/ood office, for a copy of his speech on video program problems given on the same panel. Neither of the talks was very adequately reported in the trade press. On the subject of TV also, we suggest reading John Southwell's article on "Why Should Potential Television Advertisers Start Now?" in the June 28 Printers' Ink which, by the way, nov/ carries more good "hov/" articles on radio than the radio trade journals./ And for a layman's reaction to TV reception of the Louis-Conn bout, the several columns under Talk of the Town in the June 29 New Yorker are enlightening. There also is an interesting piece by Albert N. Williams in the June 22 Saturday