Variety (Nov 1944)

Wednesday, November 15, 1944 RADIO as Inside Stuff-Radio The November bulletin of the Society for Prevention of World War lllj New York City, reports greater activity by it oil network and local broad- casts and use of its material by radio commentators. BulletinMisis par- ticipation oh the CBS television forum, when the subject, "Should the German Nation Be Held Responsible for War Atrocities?", was debated, with Wiiliam B. Ziff, Sigrid Schtrltz,;0r. L. M. Birkhead and Prof. Fred- eric W. Foerstcr (of the Society) as speakers. Also listed are the Society!s president. Rex Stout, on "Town Meeting" over the Blue web, in a debate on '.'Should."-Germany"Be Changed From, an Industrial to an Agricultural NationAttorney Louis Nizer tone of its advisory council) on Mutual's "American Forum of the Air." in a discussion of "What to Do With Ger- many." '.?'■.?'■'••'". '• I..-;.-.. - \ a'. -•..•"' Talks by Jane Cowl on the work of the Society oyer WOR-Mulual and a "March of Time" broadcast over NBC by Emil Ludwig,. prominent.in.the Society, are listed along with speakers on two forums via WINS, arid a special broadcast over. WMCA,.both N."Y. Recent signing of Eugenie Bairri .'as vocalist on Bing Crosby's radio series again points tip the fact that Pittsburgh, artists simply can't get a break in their own home town and have..to go elsewhere in order to get a chance'. Miss Baird, -whose-.home is in the Smoky City, tried for couple of -years to get air work in Pitt without success, finally getting.a brief-chance there with Maurjee Spitalny band. - She didn't slay long, however, moving on to New York where she hooked on almost immediately with Tony Pastor, iatqi'-switching to Glen Gray. She was with Gray when the.-Crosby-, thing r'aine through. Another instance- is-that .of Chris Cross, now top- flight performer in yaUde. a.n'd'-'.tUtCTies'. One-time program director of KQV, Pittsburgh, he tried' for months to. sell Pitt radio men on his veri- ti iloqiu-m .vet but could get no.whete * JERRY McGILL HOPING THIS TRUE' WILL PAY "Appointment with Crime," 15- minute five-times-per-week who- dunit, produced, written and directed j by Jerry McGill, is currently mak- ing the agency rounds in search of I of -a sponsor, McGill. who directs and writes { "Big Town", on. CBS Tuesday nights, | would take oil the "new stanza as an i added chore. Michael O'Shea, -film star,/who . is m.c.ing the new "Gaslight Gaieties" Stanza i which preemed last Saturday (11) on NBC in the 8-8 30 p.m. slot) learned with Beatrice Kaye, was parted at the last minute.. Charles Winninger,- originally, set to m.c. the stanza, bowed .out due to : a film /commitment... Reports indicate that Miss KayeV'who balked at format of show because of the nostalgic element involved 1 , was appeased early last week, by the hiring of .yOtilhtul O Shea, and the agreement by the sponsor; P&G, and ;the agency. Biow, to allow.-tier to sing more modern times as time, goes on, .-,,/ . Stanford, Ex-Agency V.P., Takes OPA Info Post ...'_."• Washington, Nov.. 14. - Navy. Commander Alfred Stan- ford, former v.p. of /'the: Compton Advertising, agency in - New. York, vvas named deputy OPA Admin- istrator last Friday ,CIO), in charge of information. .He's' been placed on inactive duty'by the Navy.. -. '. - .' For the past ■ two years: ,he has been- on the stuff of Admiral Harold If. Stark, commander of U . S. naval forces in European waters. Stan- ford succeeds Tom Donnelly in the OW1 spjjt with latter returning to the U. of New Mexico where he heads the dept. of Governnient. ■'•'.: Delay Seen in FCC Tele Decision; Fly Just Fellow en a Furlough-FDR . . Washington, Nov. 14. It's now reported in authorita- tive quarters that the FCC rec- ommendations on allocation of television frequencies won't be released until after the first of the year. Previously It was an- ticipated that the FCC decision would be known on or shortly after Nov. 15. Return of Grantland Rice to NBC once weekly in the 10-10:30 a.m. slot last Saturday (11) marks the sportswriters' 14th consecutive year on the air, sponsored or sustaining and' always on the same, network. ' i Maxine Keith Resigns ; j From Caples At>ency j . Maxine Keith is resigning as rad : o j director ■ of 'the Caples . agency, ef-j I fective today (15) She had been ! i with Caples six months, % I .'•>'■ Meanwhile.-' Miss ■ Keith, continues J with her eross-the-board Mutual I morning commentary, program. , . .-. Washington, Nov. 14. President Roosevelt hinted strong-, ly yesterday (13), that James L. Fly. who quits the -chairmanship- of the FCC tomorrow (Wed.) is slated 10 serve with American • .delegation to the coming conferences on interna- tional communications, , including, shortwave radio. In a-letter to Fly, accepting the hitter's resignation from. FCC. Roosevelt wrote: "Much work, re- mains to be done and in the doing of it I shall want, your, advice and counsel. You are only on 'furlough.' I shall have: to have your help from lime to. time, particularly in the field Of. international communications: and I know I can expect you . to respond/" Letter,: one of the warm- est, tributes the President, has paid to an . outgoing public official, also commented:;' .'' .••,'.■' ■•■, '. ■ 'The importance of the work of the FCC is better appreciated today, both by the public and by the in- dustries under its jurisdiction, than it has ever been before. The Com- mission, working as a . team under your chairmanship, has made nota- ble advances in safeguarding free- dom .of speech and information and in protecting competitive enterprise in the field of communications. Few men have so proud and effective a record in public office" '- • Tentatively considered is a Big Three conference on international communications which might take place within the next three months, with the possibility of other United Nations being, invited. Definitely on the'.'-.calendar' is the Inter-American Communications' Conference to be held in Rio in March. After, the war, there is expected fo. .be a world-wide communications conference. Fly might be one .of the U. S reps at all of those. Farming a La Patton- Chicago. Nov. 14. . Highlights;in the amazing wartime story of how:500 farmers cut 1,000.000 acres ol gram with fewer men and machines than ever before in his- tory will be featured on a series of 13 .quarter-hour, airqrsOyer'.22 .sta- tions in the. wheat belt '.starting this weekend. "'.• ■'' -';'■ ■.-.'r . -.■'•' '.' Broadcasts,, sponsored by the Mas- sey-Tlarris Co., Racine. . Wis., are. written by Nelleno Smith, Chi writ- er; produced and- narrated by Hol- land -En gel. WGN . announcer, and . i waxed by World.Broadcasting. WLIB, Brooklyn, Plans Studio Shift to N. Y. WLIB. Brooklyn, now owned by the N. Y. Post, is on. the hunt for N.-'Y. studios. Station is going to have a studio in the Post's news rooms:, but this-will be used only for newscasts. -';'-. .-.-'.' ■''..-; Ultimately, WLIB hopes to have its main broadcasting plant located in Manhattan. . ,:-.■'- 'Prince-Pauper' Continued from page 21 tions, a greater number of '-channels is made available for low-power "single inarket" -station's.-, It reduces the effect of long-distance interfer- ence from adjacent or co-channels. Social: The "single market" prin- j ciple insures the maximum amount | of local public service broadcasting because it not only permits more stations-'but provides each central .City, with its own FM stations. In . .the.southern New England, compari- son, for example, one . "multi- market" station serves six "single market" areas. . This, tends to limit the opportunities for individual pro- grams serving local cultural needs. On the other hand,'the "single mar- ket".plan tends to provide a greater | opportunity for'the development of local talent; forums, discussion groups and new program format. -j Economic: By making it possible for any I'M broadcaster to have a coverage area as large as-any otherj FM broadcaster in a given market.: the "single market" "plan insures | equivalent competition insofar as facilities are concerned. This plan prevents' the development of. in- equalities in facilities'in the market .without sacrificing, in fact, by im- proving both signal level and. cov- erage .area. It distributes the ad- vertiser's dollar to more and more stations and thereby provides more employment. This .proposal puts each broadcaster in a. given market on an equal economic footing. Fur- thermore, it places the competitive emphasis on programming and pub- lic service, which, In the final analysis, are -the end products of broadcasting. 560 Kc. 5000 WATTS