Variety (Dec 1939)

SI VARIETY RADIO Wednesday, Dcceiiibei' 13, 19.'t9 WSB^Adanta (With Journal), Sold To James Cox, Stays With NBC Flashes From Boston Atlanta, Dec. 12. WSB, 50,000-watter and WEGG. a portable relay unit used by the sta- tion, are slated to pass to James M. Cox, Dayton and Miami publisher and station operator, as part o( the deal made for the Atlanta Journal properties. WSB has filed an appli- cation with the Federal Communi- cations Commission for permission to make the transfers. Price lor the Journal's newspaper and radio properties is S.1.000.000. Cox is 3l-:o buying the Hearst Geoi jian and Sunday American. WSB is affiliated with NBC and the latiifr network is covered by a contract which has seven years to go. CARNATION STRL IN BLOOM Chicago, Dec. 12. Carnation, through Erwin-Wasey agency here, has renewed for con- tinuation of its Monday night 30- miruite show, starting Jan. 1. Show continues over the NBC red web. Program has been on the air with- out interruption since Jan., 1932. Order WQXR Labor Vote Washington, Dec. 12. CoUeclivp bargaining poll has been sdiodiilod for technicians employed at WQXR, New York City. Election must take place within 30 days, the National Labor Relations Board said Monday (11) in trying to reconcile conflicting claims of rival unions which want to speak for operators, engineers, and technicians: Agent for. the help will b« de- termined by majority vote received by Local 913 Radio Broadcast Tech- nicians and Engineers Union, char- tered by the International Brother- hood of Electrical Workers, and American Communications As.socia- tion, the CIO unit. Will be the third application of the Wagner Act to the radio industry. Dorothy Rockwell has joined the staff of WQXR, New York, as Wash- ington correspondent and will han- dle daily reports and news programs from the Capitol. Boston, Dec. 12. R.ndio man ha.s mada the exclusive AlKOnquin Club. Hc'.i Harold Fel- lows of WEEI. Truman Crane, formerly engineer , a'. WNBC, New Britain, Conn., is Llie I new control room engineer at WBZ. I He replaces Dick Plammond, who I resigned to become chief engineer nt I Charles Phelan's WESX, Salem, Bailey Axton, tenor, is Ihe latest addition to WAAB staff'. WBZ sports commentator-an- nouncer Bob Evans w^nt to Cleve- i land last week for his 'siuiimer vaca- 1 tion." Some 278 people were presented :Over WBZ-WBZA during week of i Nov. 19-25. A record which does not ' include repeats. Jimmy Lunceford a;)peared on WORL's 920 Club last Thursday (7) as commentator when his own re- cordings were played. Bill Kostka, NBC press manager, to WBZ for lookeroo. Robert Summerville and William J. Hyland, Jr., of CBS, visited WEEI, Traffic manager Gordon Swan of WBZ, who began as an announcer, is back doing daily stints while con- tinuing with his present job. Jack Beauvais, of WEEI sales pro- motion department, who has been at- tending Boston University, has re- ceived his sixth intercollegiate ad- vertising award. ***************************************** From the Production Centres >-M"»-»-f-»-f-f4-«-f ********************* *4^■*4-^^^ IN NEW YORK crrv... Stella Unger has new aide. Gertrude Michaelove... .Pic and Pal jigjf I new contract via Ed Wolfe. Were on Alka-Scltzer Barn Dance Satiuday i Johnny Canlwell and Rita Walker, who date way back In vaude, are ■ skcddcd for 'Horse and Buggy Days' on WJZ tonight CWed.) Radio City's skating pond being made twice as large Geraldine Favrar aided a friend make some discs at World Broadcasting last week Marga- ret Cuthberl was NBC's observer at the N.A.B. clubwomen rally in WashI ington Gordon Nugent, NBC script writer, will be married Christmas eve to Marion Reamer, non-pro. . . . San> Slater, of Phil Lord office, thought it cute for. Arline Blackburn, of 'By Kathleen Norris,' to slop out of that 'tlrst plane' at the North Beach airport and kiss Mayor La Guardia... .Joe Sullivan's whilc-and-black hotcha orch from Cafe Society now heard on WNEW... .Liberty maga^tins has taken over the handling of the patriotic cartoon contest initialed by Town Hall and is coughing up $1,800 for cash pri7.es.... Illustrator Arthur William Brown made.his first radio gueslea with , George Jesscl George V. Denny, Jr., finally got that gold mike awarded i him in 1938 by the Women's National Radio Committee. . . . j Cyril Armbrister is with the New York production staff of Benton Sc Bowles. He comes from Hollywood. Addi.son Smith, who produced for B & B on the Coast, has also been transferred to the N. Y. office.. .Bernard L. Schubert, of the Phil Lord office, is honeymooning in Florida and Havana. Due back after New Years.. .New Jersey Telephone Co. will give its annual afternoon time off to olfice employees of Newark branch to enable them to sing Christmas carols over WOR, N. Y., Dec. 22....Joe Koehler, now radio rep for Lord Dun.-iany... .Arnold Moss replaced Ray- mond E. Johnson on "Valiant Lady.' The Day, largest English-Yiddish newspaper in America, has switched its program from WBBC to WARD which shares time on the same wave- length (1400 k.c.) because the latter has bettered its signal with new trans- mitter. Sholem Asch and Maijrice Schwartz are. frequent guests on thij scries.-.; .Keith Higgins, director of NBC's blue link, has been named- chairman of the radio committee for the American Legion's New York slate department... .Reggie Scheubcl will vcontinue as radio exec .of the Biow agency after her marriage to .lohn H. Ballard. Bulova Watch Co. prer. Red River Dave of WOR, N. Y., took his Texas Cowboys into the Village Barn, N. Y., last week for a stand until Dec. 21. Gets three midday air shots per week Gracie Barrie Hies in each week from Boston to do "Listen America' broadcast over WOR-Mutual. and at 5000 Watt Rates! WATTS THAT DO THE WORK OF 50,000 Four important factors contribute to the reniarkaltle dimen- sions of the WiNAX primary area (as outlined in the 1938 CBS Listening Area studies). Here they arei 1. Frequency of 570 kc—and excellent separation from other 570 stations. Nearest is Fori Worth, Texas. 2. A widening band of soil of A-1 conductivity which acts as a natural path for the WNAX signal. 3. Absence of competitive radio service. .. .WNAX is tha only CBS station between Minneapolis and Denver— between Omaha and Canada. But, it lakes buying power to make a radio station a good buy. Here are more important reasons why your program should be on WNAX. Among all Columbia stations WNAX is A Cowles Station 5000 Walls L. S. 1000 Walls Night CBS Represented by The Kals Agency First in Rural Population Sixth in Total Population Seventh in Radio Families Fifth in Passenger Cars . Ninth in Retail Sales . 3,136,320 . 3,837,323 750,530 879,625 $891,566,000 With its 5,000 Watt rales, WNAX is a good buy. It can help you sell your products profitably. iiiilTION WNAX m ON THE DIAL Studios-WNAX Building, Yankton - Orpheum Building, Sioux City Policy In Canada .Continued from page 29_ true designs. Gradually his policies convinced the private broadcasters that as and when and if he thought he could accomplish the switchover Murray would be foimd advocating the extinction of the private stations and the adoption of a government monopoly a la BBC, That Murray several times brilliantly outsmarted the somewhat timid and over-trust- ing private licensees did not in- crease tha general manager's popu- larity. The whole question is in- finitely Involved in Canadian poli- tics and flnancial-publication-indus- trial alignments. News Ban Thwarted Meantime the latest attempt by newspaper and magazine publishers to get the Canadian Government to ban sponsored broadcasts, this time as a war measure, has flivved due to timely Intervention of broadcasters. Reports that the Canadian authori- ties were to ban commercial spon- sorship of news, under the emer- gency powers of the War Measures Act, were first mentioned by three different advertising agencies as reasons for turning down an other- wise suitable program submitted by local radio stations. Persistent rumors finally led the Canadian Association of Broadcast- ers to investigate and make appro- priate representations to the authori- ties here at Ottawa. Newspaper and magazine publish- ers have been trying to get the government to ban commercial spon- sorship of news for many years now, last attempt having flopped a little over a year ago. New movement, launched several weeks ago under cover of a war measure, reached a point where several magazine pub- lishers had been definitely advised that there would be an end to spon- sored newscasts shortly. Understanding is that a regulation ' banning sponsored news had actually been framed and would have been incorporated into the CBC rules but for the protest filed by broadcasters. Representetives of the Canadian As- sociation of Broadcasters, supported by the Association of Canadian Ad- vertisers, Canadian Association of Advertising Agencies, and news ser- vices such as Transradio and B.U.P. interviewed the general manager following submission of a brief to the Financial Committee of the CBC then in session. Financial Committee and manage- ment of the CBC then if&vised broadcasters that commercial news sponsorship would not be tampered with. Further assurances to this affect were given by Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Transport. 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