Variety (Mar 1936)

Variety 51 amze 19 Station* Tentatively Set State Asso- ciation—Meet Again May 23 San Antonio, March 17. Texas broadcasters' huddled here Saturday (14) to temporarily organ- ize Texas Broadcasters' Association, k permanent organization meeting. 2 set for Fort Worth May 23, 'Previously unorganized, the state's 36 etherizes finally decided to' band together f or an established code of practice, particularly with an eye for card rate slashing tyhlch since NRA demise has been plenti- ful. ■Will keep an eye turned to legis- lature which last term attempted to smack a 2% gross, tax on radio ad- vertising. Station execs agreed JJie allied front will tetter conditions •generally, ^Temporary officers are J. Frank —Sroith KKX-T^) ,-Houston^_prfiz.;_g t S. Bishop (KFJZ), Forth Worth, vice-prez, and James R. Curtis (KFRO), Longvlew,. seoretary. Di* vrectbrate included officers and Dick ttiles (KRGV), Weslaco; ; Earl Yates (KGKL), San Angelo; Gil- more ;N. Nunri.. (KPDM), Pampa, and Hugh M. HaWf (WOA?), San Antonio, Director* will draw up constitution ,and submit policies at Fort Worth meet .when permanent officers are to be elected. Will pass the W"d around to* get 'full repre- sentation at spring iheet; 19 sta- tions were represented at, tentative meeting. •■•.■< Palange at WBNX To pep -up* Its 'R.S.V.P.* platter program, running on late eve hours, WBNX, New York, Js adding An- » gelo; Palange, flpqf<;scaster, Sunday night (22). Will introduce .sports ->-jcMfibja.ir.onjLito^^ specialties, and handle re-~ i quests. Station Is thinking about turning the show into an all-nighter. Hoosier ijop'.to. CBS «--.••. Eort JSSfayijie,: JMafch ,17. 1 .. Hoosier Hop returns to CBS net- work'airing on March 23; after a short, absence. ■ Same cast as befbre Tfrlth /Uncle Mordecai, Sari, Cousin Mary, Letitia, Hiram, the Ramblers, Wabash trio and Harmaniacs. . It'B broadcast from WOWO Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m. CST. on Here and There (Continued from page 49) broadcasts over CHWC, March 10. Got stuck in mud during sudden Bpring thaw. Had to come on' by train. Hazel Wilber in Hollywood NBC music rights department. . Guy Earl, east on his"- regular spring trip. C. Warwick Ogelsby, sales man- ager of WHAT, Philadelphia, now doubling as. announcer. Milton Laughlin, production manager, add- lng_prjQgrajn_dIrectpr _to title. ; 'Daddy Dave' Tyson back on KYW, Philly, roster 4fter engage- ments' for several months on Atlan- tic City Steel tier and in Trenton. fiette Davit Will do "Bought and Paid For* on Lux show March 23. Sid Goodman, program super at NBC, San Francisco, cut a big U. of Pa. Radio Class Philadelphia, March 17. Practical study ot radio broad- casting has been made part of regu- lar course ot advertising classes of Wharton School, of Finance and Comerce and Evening School of Ac- counts and Finance of , University of Pennsylvania. Visit to KTW studios will be made tomorrow (18) by. 160 members of classes. Studes will witness broadcast, watch- dress rehearsal and hear lec- "tures on various phases of station activities, taking notes and later turning, in written' report. Only Radio local in State? Burlington, Vt., March 17. Burlington Daily News, owner of WCAX, is the first Vermont daily to list programs of Vermont radio stations. Other dailies having ho radio af- filiations are careful not to mention radio In the news columns, although carrying some spotlight ads con- cerning programs and speeches to be aired. WE'RE ON THE NETWORK NOW! As key outlet for the new NBC Pacific Coast Blue Network, KGO now offers spot advertisers a greater value per advertising dollar than ever be- fore. And it has always been one of the most economical station buys in northern California. KGO 7,500 WATTS NBC Pacific Cocut Blue Network SAN FRANCISCO One o/ NBC* Managed and Operated Stations birthday cake for artisfts and staff members Jastc'week. Age kept.se- cret ii Charles Kaplan ' back*' at WIP, Philly, commercial department, after two months on the Coast, David McKay, NBC sales promo- tion' dept., back in San Francisco from national get-together at home office for ten days. \ Louis Ford, Harvey Peterson, Cairl Kalash and Otto King make up hew string quartet taking Weekly night spots on KGO, Frisco. Roy-Russell, of KRRC, booked at Vancouver, B.' C. Auto Show by Thomas Lee Artists Bureau. Edna Fisher's piano added to Sperry's NBC red Coast network. Edwi Imhaus andV Helene Hughes to augment KFRC, San Francisco Feminine Fancies. George Besse of the Chicago office In the home office of Joseph Hershey McGfilvra last week. Mi's. Paul Rickenbacker (Mona Lowe) parted with her appendix in Hollywood hosp. Don Qilman herded together his crew of 40 at Hollywood NBC studios for a friendly chat. Jack Sayera resigned at KHJ (Los Angeles) to free lance as an- nouncer and scripter. Jean Cowan signed, as staff can- ary by NBC at San Francisco. Georgia Fifield, radio comedienne, filed bankruptcy petition In Los Angeles. Felix Knight, Phyllis Fraser,-Nel Roy and Guardsmen quartet signed for Ben Alexander's Kellogg in- Torn Murray added . to*': sta,ff ,,o'f•' announcers of Station ' WHAM; Rochester, to handle outside, - dance programs and night spot's.- " : Trafton Robertson, WTAR, Nor- folk, announcer, .has tiirhed singer. Otto Gray Oklahoma Cowboys, re- cently returned to WLW, Cincinnati, have been assigned to an early forenoon 15-7mihute spot, Mondays through; Friday. Margaret bore, formerly of CKCK, new, addition to program staff of CJRM, Reginar Sask. Lew Kent, announcer and vocalist of WOR and WLW, has joined WMAZ, Macon. Arthur L. White- side has resigned to. go to WBT. George Moore, commercial man- ager, and Arthur Ainsworth, an- nouncer, absent from duties at WCKT, Cihcy, for past week by flu. Maury Cliffer, KMOX, St. Louis announcer, laid low by flu. in hos- pital for week. Kenneth Cox has returned to WNOX, Knoxville, as an operator. He formerly was an announcer.' •' Walter Bunker, Jr., former chief announcer at KFRC, Frisco, has been added to production staff of Hollywood NBC. Bobby Meeker band has replaced Chic Scoggin at Jefferson Hotel nitery and la broadcasting nightly over KMOX, St. Louis. Edith Murray, CBS Dramatist- of Song,' doing twice-a-week late eve nlng spot over KMOX St Louis,, with Al Roth's orchestra. Inside Stuff-Radio (Continued from page 45) ner. will be picked weekly, with the writer having his number' published as the prize and receiving. BOO free copies from Marks. With her contract expiring Oct. 1, Frances Langford Is.only featured player in 'Hollywood Hotel* program not signed for additional two years. Warbler is holding out through her manager, Ken Dolan, for substan- tial, salary tilt, with several overtures by P. Wallls Armstrong, agency handling the account, falling on deaf ears, due to their plea budget cannot stand proposed extra tap. Singer also wants to change pro- grams, feeling that too long an association, will militate against her Value as an artist. Muzak, Inc., subsid of Wired Radio, Inc., started Monday (16) its ser^ vice of feeding restaurants, hotels,, barrooms, «tc, with recorded music by the telephone line route. Operations opened with 12 accounts and the service available 24. hours a day. For the. beginning Muzak put only one channel into use, but Others will be added when business makes it worth while. Eventually Muzak clients will be able to tune into their loudspeakers any one of three types of musical fare and also news bulletins. Since starting practical experiments with pack short wave transmit- ters, Charley Colemah and Arnold Nygren, of WFIL, Philadelphia, staff, have been running into dizzy situations. Out last week on cloudy day, boys were carrying umbrellas as well as the packs on their backs. One dear old lady, passing them on street, stopped and told them if they'd call at her house next day she's give them three more umbrellas to repair. Coleman says even his own dog barks a him when he goes home. So eager are Coast politicians to grab preferred time on major stations many of them are offering to pay cash in advance. Guy Earl of KNX has turned down more than $3,000 worth of this business, preferring to keep time open for choicer commercials. Henchmen are meeting some response from other stations, for same reason. Most of periods sought are for 15 mins., which, if allotted, would kill off longer and more lucrative periods from other buyers. Election not until the fall, Rearrangement of Adam Hats contract with WHN, New York, has' Its midnight matinee series clipped from original 11:30 to 4 a.m. EST to a 11-2 a.m. period. Additional time is added to same sponsor's Bowery Mission broadcast. Sponsor decided last week on curtailment of late-hours because of uncertain circulation from 3 a.m. and later. All General Mills baseball negotiations, contracts and billing, will, in the future; be handled through the Knox Reeves, Inc., agency of Minne- apolis instead of through the' Blackett-Sample-Hummert Chicago office. This switch sends something like $400,000 worth of baseball radio time billing into th'e Minneapolis advertising firm. What has become the longest run record in radio chalks up another year-post as the WLS National Barn Dance-steps into Its fifth consecu- tive year at the Eighth Street theatre here. Every Saturday night for the past four years Barn Dance has given two complete performances. In the 209 weeks of operation the two shows have played to total of 449,017 paid admissions. Doubtful if Salzburg, Austria, symphonic program will be aired under U. S. sponsorship this summer from the foreign music festival. Gamble 1 on weather conditions is considered handicap for a commercial although last summer American Radiator took gamble and presented ToscanSni and others from Austria. Rugs Morgan's contract for the Rinso (Lover TCros.) program, which --♦arts on CBS Mar. 24, is for two years With 13-weck options. Although the Morgan band was booked info the Eiltmore hotel by the NBC Artists Service, the commercial deal was handled exclusively through Iiockwell- O'Keefe, Inc. "It's not Winchelll" "It's.notTidlerl" "It's not Parsons!!' It's George Fischer gather- ing material ibr the original Hollywood gossip program! ^GEORGE FISCHER'S Hollywood Studio Jhis lusty six-year*old;pro* gram, is the granddaddy of them^ll. ..Through, its Warner Bros; .ownership KFWB has the inside on all Hollywood gossip and inter- views with hnportant stars, STUDIO WHISPERS First with the news First with reviews * And first in the ears of the radio audience ........ It CAN BE HAD /the direct feroaefcast is nojfr. iavait'ablc for the complete I Souther©. California cover- age of KFWB and on tran- scriptions fog .national use.' DROP US A NOTE . .. SEND US A . WIRE ... GIVE US A BUZZ ...and we'll tell you all you want to know about this (and we think. it's swell) program. We'll even tell you how much youll be stuck: for it and everything. KF WB LOS ANGELES _ jn*l ml QbtTMlti by WAANFA B«0«. MOTION I'ICTUie STUDIO* free k ueikinger, ExcluiUt Rcprtiaitativti