Variety (Nov 1948)

38 BAMO Wednesday, November 17, 1948 CIRCLING THE KILOCYCLES Albany—-Beth Lee has been ap- i join WGAB production department. STATE RADIO BUREAU'S $477,600 CUFFO ASSIST pomted director d women's pro- grams at WPTR, Albany, as suc- cessor to Nancy Adams, who re- \ signed. Miss Lee was on the stall oi: WINN in Louisville. [ He's being replaced . tewporairily. ; by Ken Daly,. >Vh6,. wilt ^doi K I publicity; until fli'st of yeif; when ';I•^^:ank ,Orr takies over following his graduation from Univ.: of. West Vir-i i ginia. Latter worked at station Odessa, Tex.—Koyce A. Collier, year during summer vacation. _ ha* been named assistant and com- Hfs . a.PPOJn'ment mdicates that, tion to the people on their state, mercial manager of KECK here. Virginia Belle Reed will sever her i ^ These are figures re-■ He was formerly . with KXOX, ] connections with KQV upon return ,^3,^^, ^ jyj^ieg nearer, director Sweetwater and KIOX, Bay City., irom turope in late December ^ ^ Bureau, on the. Shirley Sporcic has been named She^s b^een__ on ^a^lejive_ oj ^^,^^.^31 j^^^^^ through' • Albany,' Nov. . | Ninety-two radio stations in New York StJte contributed 421 hours and 24 minutes, including 394' hours of time contributed by com- mercial outlets and valued at' $477,600, during the first six ^ months of 1948, to bring mforma' Coy on Tele vs. Pix Continued from page 27 KtOX Bav City, j fi'om Europe in . late; Decemlier,! has been '^hamed ' She's been . on 'a leave of absence; to'the"'po"sl ot'program director of, from post as head of publicity and KECK. She was formerly with promotion, KNET, Palestine and KLIF and: KIXL, Dallas. 1 Pitt$burg:h—Couple of newscast- Lufkin, Tex.i^Ray Gordon been appointed program director i renewals here lor KTRE replacing Ed Henry. Royce Christenson has been 'named KTRE promotion director, the post formerly held by. Gordon. ers at KDKA.got their, Xmas pres- has, ents early in the form of 52-week from their respective- sponsors. C. F; Mueller Co. has. picked up Jack Swift straight through '49 for his 10-minute noon- time spots Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and : Studebaker Corp. has . dittoed Paul Long, who goes on at 6:05 Monday, Wednes- that unit. Eighty commercial AM stations, six independently operated com- ■ mercial FAI outlets and six non-1 commercial AM and FM stations ' were .serviced by the. State Radiol Bureau during ,the period- in ques- ] tion. ! Fort Worth-^Clarence McDoa . „ ., . ■ aid has joined the commercial staff t'ay and *^"day evenings of KWBG here as a salesman Syracuse, N. Y. — Martin R. Karig, owner of WWSC, Glens Falls, N. Y., will serve as manager of WNDR, Syracuse, under a man- agement agreement made with the S.vracuse Broadcasting Corp., own- er of the Syracuse station. Agree- ment taking e ffect immediately also V provides that Arthur L. Cooper, until Nov. 5 sales manager of WVOS in Liberty, will serve as sales manager of WNDR. Calgary, Alta.wPat Freemanj production manager of GFAC, Calgary, has been appointed direc- tor of sales and station service for the Canadian Assn, of. Broad- casters, and will take charge of the Toronto oiTiee of the CAB in January. Dallas)—Dallas youth will in- augurate their own; forum which Will be heard each Tuesday over WFAA with a di.scussion of views FM Continued from pase 22 compared to a $10,000,000 two years previously. Todaj, said FMA, 663 commer- cial and 25 noncommercial FM stations are operating in 41-7 cities in 42 states and the District Of Columbia.'; An additional 334 com^ mercial and 20 noncommercial sta- tions have been autliorized and 91 applications are pending. .; . At the close of the third quarter of the yearj FMA declared; one. Surveys, Coy said, "show that when families acquire television sets their attendance at theatres dwindles seriously. Theatres may meet this challenge by improving their programming, and it is alto- gether possible that (hoy may use the very art of television to bring to their theatres outstanding pub- lic events simultaneously with tele- vision. Until there is a saturation of television'receivers in tliis coun- try there will certainly be a large audience for, such events in thea- tres. "But television is another threat to the motion picture theatre. Tele- vision becomes a competitor for the production of the motion pic- ture, producer: Television' broad? casters will bid against the exhib- ito'r for the feature films, for the specialty films, and other short subjects by film. Television op- erators face an almost superhuman task in progra mining their stations 12 to'IB hours a day. Film wiU of necessity be- one of their essential requirements, Either they will Kine Setup Continued from p.-ig;e 27 : PittsburghTT-*Warren Dana ' is of youth on matters of current in-i"» V""- tei4t. Series will be known as i »»er factories of the Radio Manufac leaving promotion post at KQV to } "Youth Forum" and will feature turers Assn. had produced a total students from the various schools I of 2,409,522 FM sets and an estima as participants. Grid Mentors — Continued from page 1 has covered them for the last sev- eral years, over to N; Y; Daily;: News' WPIX Because of NBC-TV's heavy nightime commercial sched- ule, NewoU-Emmett agency, which handles the Chesterfield, account, was forced to turn over the night I games last year to WPIX. Agency I is dissatisfied with that arrange- ment so decided to give the latter station the .complete, .schedule for 1949. Possibility still exists that the major; team owners . will vote against video at the , forthcoming winter meetings. While practically every major league team set new attendance records last year, some owners believe TV cut into the minor league ; gates. In the N. Y. area. for example, both the Newark and .lerscv City,minor league clubs fell, off this year .and it's the belief ;oi;', sortie team owners .'that "the lo- calilrs who usuailv patronized them ted additional 175,000 FM sets were incorporated in postwar video receivers. Another 300,000 FM units were . estimated , to h a v e I been turned, out by ;facto"ries not I members of RMA, This would I mean a total of 2,880,000 sets as of Sept. 30, 1948, said FMA. FMA ^ald that straight FM sets ' at less than $30 are already on the J market and that soon we will have i FM sets lor automobiles. , "The sooner the radio industry as a whole begins dealing in facts concernmg FM, rather than theory ' and opinion," said FMA, "the I sooner the 'experts' will; realize j that they're wrong if they feel; the people of the; United States don't want's FM. They certainly do." AFRA Fee Continued from page 23 agencies and ,-bankroUersi without first consulting AFRA or the other unions involved (notably American Federation ,of Musicians and Radio Writers Guild, where question of second peilorraance rights is in- volved) doesn't rest too well with had a "maximum quality" by permitting individual processing of the, picture and sound iiegaliveSi: and also makes it possibla vto -edit, more, easily imperfections in the driginal live performancei . Of the other film transcription methods now in use, NBCrTV uses a 16m double system, similar to that of CBS. Paramount utilizes a single system lor its - 35m tran- scriptions, which makes possible the speed necessary for use in the- atre-tele, Par is-now working ,on a single 16m system to accompany the double system it uses tor the narrow-gauge film: According to Par exec George Shupert, the choice between the two is only "a matter of convenience.'' , ; , Both webs plan to use the sys- tems to feed transcriptions of their live shows to their , nonTintercou- nectcd affiliates, pending comple- tion of the cable link from coast to coast. ABC is now building a second unit tor installation in its Hollywood AM studios and will use It to film AM shows for telecasting on its east coast web. CBS this week began to ; transcribe seven hours;of live Shows for its affili- ates,- including next Sunday (2H night's presentation of the "Ford Television Theatre." Web also plans to inst,ill a unit in its Holly- wood 'i?V studios, and thus will have an interchange of live shows from both coasts tor the entire net- wo'rk.," I get the film from the present pro- I ducers in competition with the ex- ' hibitors, or the producers will I make film tailor-made foi;, televise" ! ion or new producers will make I them or the television broadcast- ers will make them. ,"What we are witnessing is a great spectacular eruption in the! communications world — competi- tion between various forms of pommunicatioh. . . . American in- dustries certain to be affected by television may fall before this new ; communications medium or, like the : phonograph record did in partner-;. 1 ship with,,radio, ,;may rise phoenix- like in' 'partnership with, this tiew • industry. Coy said that television "is' about the only business I know of in which the enterprisers go-about! bragging about the amount of money they are losing." It is not i: unusual to find stations losing from! $10,000 to $25,000 a month and;; most larger stations lose more, he said. "One large concern," he, added, "makes quite a point of the fact that it has already; sunk $40,- 000,000 in television." But these "trail-blazers," he as- serted; "are not philanthropists.'' They are "convinced that the po- tentialities of television far over- shadow : every other medium of communication." And wliile it is ■ costly to build and operate a tele- vision station "advertisers will find it the most powerfuli most effective a^id ;the, most profitable medium for mass merchandising ; yet de^ vised." , You'd think John Milton had us m mmd when he wrote"such sweet compulsion ; doth in (nusic .lie." For in their constant , programming of the music people love IS the sweet compulsion that keeps more than half a million New York families - pretty constantly tuned to WQXR and r WQXR-f M No other station, reaches them so compcllinglv. And because they are families that love good things as they love good music apd can afforit , ;them advtrtiscrs , find, them a-most inviting segment of this biggest and richest of all markets. Can; we help you to something sweet in the ;waTr of more tales compulsion? stayed home to watch the neighboring major league teams in ' AFRA. The union feels it N. Y on their video sets. | right to be consulted first Move is also; underway to have r ' It was because of the possibility tele bajjned ; at least from the'of talent union repercussions that maior leaguers' night games, ac-.NBC has thus far held off on any I cording to Giants'' proxy Horace Slonoham, TV ci't the average at- tendance at night contests last-sea- son about 10,000 per game, ' definite action NBC hopes that it can get AFRA's blessing on the deal by upping scales on summer sustainer fill-in shows and using live talent wherever possible, but as far as the union is concerned; everybody in- volved in the twor'network tran- scription ride will have to come across with the: same ,{ee as a live show..' Since clients are primarily in- terested in saving coin during the summer doldrums in radio, 'the Dramatist Guild ss Continued from page Xi a 1 pla.'is will bring more money. Ma- I jority of music publishers, too, I have nixed tele for the time-being, , whith has virtuall> ruled out the lehanecs onnany banl^^^^^^ . possibility of any musicals for the , in with the "52 weeks of top stars" |,various series. ; are now considered slim I' illustrative of.;.the.: film coin- panics' ban 1? the fact that Philco I was lorced to bypass recordings of "Dinner at Eight" and "Rebecca," first two plays in the series. Metro owns film rights to "Dinner" and David O. Selznick has "Rebecca' .sewed up and both refused to per-1 St. Loo Browns Continued: from pitee Z\t portation Advertising Co. of Tor- onto. AND-WQXR FM RADIO STATIONS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES mit the transcriptions. Philco since Proposed to broadcast then has steered clear of any such Programs which it hoped to sell to argumentative scripts but would ] the Toronto Transportation Com- TV Freeze SB Continued from page 27:55: the expiration of the current freeze on applications, ; Requesting a declaratory ruiing on the problem, WSAZ told the Commission that it the extension of construction.time was denied, it would like to pi'oceed with further construction with the assurance that any revision of the Commis- sion's rules and standards would require no substantial, change in the station's basic engineering fa- cilities and construction permit. The station asserted that it would like to provide a television service to the Huntington com- munity at the earliest date How- ever, it told FCC that it is fearful in proceeding with construction lest the Commission revise the tele- vision allocations and thereby ren- der its facilities "entirely useless." like to get them for the future. To date, only two more shows are de finitely jet. "An Inspector Calls,' >,„.„„ stauing Walttr Abel, is scheduled I for Sunday (2i), with Oscar Karl- wcis and Bert Lvtell set to star in "1 lake It Here" the following week. Neither of the two plays has e\'er been filmed. I mission, city-owned utility, alter installing sets in all trolleys and Dallas—Ralph Maddox, former production manager ot WFAA, has been: given, tlie post of program I director. Davidson • Dunton, CBC chair- man, stated the CBC board was not deciding for or against radio in streetcars or buses but rather the qualifications of the applicant for the broadcasting license. It was; the Dunton decision that "the CBC board is not convinced that the ap- plicant company can operate an FM station in Toronto giving a I good FM broadcasting service." WFAA's Talent Hunt Dallas, Nov 16. WF.A.A will make an extensive search throughout the southwest lor new radio talent; it's announced by: Martin Campbell, general man- ager. Campbell said tliat the station completed .plans, for a WFAA Radio Talent Award for 1949, lor which, vocalists and instrumental- ists may compete. Any radio tal- ent not regularly employed by a radio station may enter. Prizes include a grand award oE .^.S.'iO, two secondary awards of $100 each, plus additional radio appearances as professional talent and an op- portunity to Join: the regular WFAA talent staff. Prince Albert, SaSk.-rr^Kenneth F. Davey, announcer and pro- ducer at KCBl, Prince Albert, has .loined CBC in Montreal to work with the : United ,Kingdom and Commonwealth; section of the in- ; ternational service. MINUTC INTERVIEW^ r ^ Miss Hazel Graham, Claremont A v e., N. ';Y. C. ■'I'm one-half of the Graham Sis- , ters. M a y b e you've seen us : entertain at the Carnival, Rivie- ra, or Versailles —we dance with : violins. Right now. we're con- c e n t r a t i n g on t e 1 e v i - sion. 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