Variety (May 1941)

Wednesday- May 14, 1941 RADIO 27 Convention Cross-Talk sContfnned from page £2; rigged up a new' gag for this con- vention.. Snyder stuck a sign on one of the Ixibby chairs with the legend, "This is reserved exclusively for L; B. Wilson, grand potentate of Whimsy' and signatured 'Glenn Snyder, chairman of the committee on ultra conveniences.' Uvered by special authority of man- agement to Lester Gottlieb, of Mu- tual NBC station rep department has John Norton, Easton Wooley, Otto Brandt and Sheldon Hickox here. Broadcasters were so confused by the technicalities of both the ASCAP and FCC issues that some kiddingly said they were going to wire their lawyers to join them in St. Louis. Larry Welters, of the Chicago Tribune, and Dorothy Doran, of the Akron Beacon, among radio editors covering convention. Bill Thomas, of Young & Rubl- cam, arrived Monday. Carlos Franco of same agency also here. Convention has received an un- usually heavy turnover of agency time-buyers. Largest representation from J. Walter Thompson, with Linnea Nelson, from New York, Margaret Wiley from the Chicago office, and Helen McGrath from San Francisco. Other agency people in- clude Moe Kleinfeld. of Franklin Bruck; John Lynch, of Esty; Ned Midgley, of B.B.D.&0.; and Barnie Procter, of Blow. Most notable ab- BiU Kostka, NBC presr chief, has his cameramen. Tommy Weber and Maynard Stitt, on Hand. W. E. Macfarlane, Mutual prez, didn't wait for the convention to un- veil, but hurried back to Chicago following the close' of the Mutual stockholders' meeting Sunday. LIndsey and Gilmore Nunn in deep huddle first thing Monday, fig- uring how much their Iiouisville- Huntington stations will j^ave to pay under the Mutual-ASCAP plan on the basis 1940 income. Lewis AUen Weiss around in his usual sartorial splendor. Also rating as an esquire epic is Jack Howard, of Scripps-Howard stations. Fred Weber, Mutual general man' ager, figures he has averaged three hours' sleep each night from Friday to Tuesday. W. H. Lancaster, WJHZ, Johnson City, Tenn., spent Monday afternoon greeting everybody in the Jefferson Lobby with an invitation to visit him back home 6ven' if the NAB can't hold its next convention there. Fred Bcokaw confessed in an in' timate moment that he plays the mad Russian in 'You Can't Take It With You,' to be presented at the Playhouse, Summit, N. J., next month. Paul Raymer Wearing wing Insig- nia which he earned in last war as naval aviator. Don Withycomb at convention representing M. H. Aylesworth, of Pan-American Cultural Committee, Withycomb Just became his aide, Capt. Barney Oldfleld, fugitive from radio in Lincoln, Neb., visit- ing convention in khaki and pith helmet He's public relations officer of Jefferson Barracks, but lives in Chase. ASCAP -meeting Sunday played ASCAP tunes throughout the broad casters' meeting, to the irritation of some members, who complained to the manager. Newspapermen, including Jack Gould, of N. Y. Times, did five-hour session outside the ASCAP discus slon chamber Saturday without food Finally shared one sandwich dC' FM FOR ROCHESTER WSIB, Sobsld of WHAM, Opens WUta Sponsor «nd $60 Rate-Card Rochester, N. Y., May 13. FM station W51R (sister-station of long-wave WHAM)- bowed in last week with special invitation pro gram in KUbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music. Two-hour show and demonstration included trick stuff by visible and hidden musicians to emphasize quality of reproduction. New station, operating 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily, is eliminating talk as far as possible and centering on class music. Estimated there are about 600 set-owners hereabouts at present. B. Forman Co. became first adver' tiser by sponsoring the inaugural program. Rate-card calls for $60 an hour basic priqe. WING, Dayton, to Blue WING, Dayton, becomes a basic NBC-Blue station tomorrow (Thurs day). It has beea pert of the basic Red and Blue supplementary list. Snds Makers Woo Mpts. Radio After Papers Refuse Ads Minneapolis, Mcy 13. With the Cowles interests gaming complete control over the entire press here as a result of the consoli- dation of the Tribune newspapers with the Star-Journal, beer and liquor ads are completely out of all the sheets, and the suds dispensers are losing no time in hopping on the radio bandwagon. Previously, the Tribune newspapers-morning ^nd evening—had accepted beer and liquor advertising. However, it has been persona noh grata with the Star-Journal ever since its acquisi- tion by the Cowles. Starting May IS, a new half-hour local show, sponsored by Minne- apolis Grain Belt Beer, goes on WCCO. Entitled "Friendly Tavern,' Kiauber and Weber Swap Jibes CBS Exec Taunts Mutual as Non-Constructive—But Weber Says He 'At Least Provided Competition' sence is probably Reeele Scheubel ' ^-nuuea rrienoiy lavern, of the Blow agency Scheubel, .j j^j^,^ ^leUan Card, WCCO NBC delegation here includes A. L. Ashby, Hugh Veville, Frank Chizzini, Sheldon Coons, Mrs. Doris Corwith, Ken Dyke, Lloyd Egner, Sherman | Gregory, O. B. Benson, Horton Heath, WiUiam S. Hedges, C. W. Horn, Keith KIggins, Harry Kopf, BUI Kostka, Frank Mason, B. F. Mc- Clancy, Roberts Morris, Frank Mul- len, Robert Myers, and Jennings Pierce. announcer, as host, the station's 14- piece orchestra, and other staff en- tertainers. Guest artists will appear from time to time, ostensibly visiting the tavern.' The Hamm Brewing company al- ready has a 15-minute sports show on WCCO daily. The Fitger Brew- ing company, starting May 26, "will take five minutes three days a week on the same station. Still another \ brewing company, Schmidt's, has be- ; gun negotiations for time. About the only thing of signifl-; cance that happened at last Wednes- , day's (7) meeting of the National' Association of Broadcasters' execu- tive, committee at the Hotel Roose- velt! N. Y, -/as a flare-up by Edward Kiauber, CBS executive v.p., in which he called the Mutual Network i a "parasite.' The committee had met to determine what stand the N.A3. should take on the FCC's monopoly report It was decided to let the full board of the N.A.B. decide this question at a meeting in SL Louis during the N.A.B. convention. Kiauber also declared that Mutual has not contributed anything worth- while to the Industry and has. as a rule taken "undesirable business.' Fred Weher, Mutual general man- ager, present as committeeman, par- ried these remarks with the state- ment that Mutual, if nothing else, has contributed competition. Anyway, Weber added, the issue had to do with the monopoly report and it was his opinion that It was not a matter for Kiauber to discuss within the association, nor should he seek to get the HJlM. to fight his batUes. I>resent at this gathering, besides Kiauber and Weber, were J. Harold Ryan, of WSPD, Toledo; John Ken- nedy, of the West Virginia Network; John Elmer, of WCBM, Baltimore, and Frank Russell, NBC's Washing- ton v.p. Harold Hough, of WBAP, Fort Worth, was an invited guest as chairman of the Newspaper-Radio Committee. JOE WEED SUES WBAX Rep Alleges SUtlon Owes %3Mt la Commissions Joseph J. Weed, station sales rep, filed a N. Y. supreme court action last week against John H. Stenger, Jr., doing business as WBAX and the Stenger Broadcasting Co., seek- ing $3,642 allegedly . due on com- missions. Weed was national adver- tising representative of the defend- ant from June, 1938, to March, 1041. 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