Variety (Nov 1948)

Wednesday, Nqvemlier 24, 1948 ItADIO 31 Ohio Co. Offered to Sell AM Permit for 383G Soon After Issue, Is Claim Washington, Nov. 23. ^ iA Charge that Northwestern Ohio Broadcasting Corp, offered to sell its AM and FM facilities in Lima {or $385,000 within three weeks after its AM permit was granted, was made by Skyway Broadcasting Corp. of Columbus, unsuccessful applicant for the AM facility, in a petition filed with the FCC Friday (19) by Marcus Cohn, counsel. The petition declared that had FCC known of Northwestern's in- tention to sell its construction per- mit as soon as its AM application was granted, the Commission would have favored Skyway for the li- cense. It therefore asked that its application be rein.statcd and that the Commission issue an order to show . cause why Northwestern's permit shouldn't be revoked on the grounds of "fraud and deception." Northwestern's FM station start- ed operation last summer. Sky- : way had previously charged that construction of the AM station was proceeding before the Commission issued a final decision granting the permit. Mex General Shoots Up 'Noisy' Radio Station Mexico City, Nov. 23. Gen. Bulmaro Guzman, of the Mexican army, is out on bail await- ing trial on a charge of malicious mischief preferred by Alfredo Tcjeda, operator of a small local radio stationi XEML. Tejeda ac- cuses the general, who lives next door to the station, of bursting in during a program, yelling that too much noise was being made,- and gun in hand, starting to wreck things until overpowered by the two performers then at the mike and the staff of six. Gen.' truzman said repeated , re- quests ifnt less noise had been ig- nored and he couldn't stand it any longer. WOR(N,Y.),KHJ(l.A.) Set Reciprocal Deals Reciprocal coverage deal on local news has been worked out by WOR, N. Y., and KHJ, Los Angeles. The stations have agreed to supply each other with human interest news in their areas, and to ex- change transcriptions. WOR execs say they hope to set similar deals with other stations across the country, regardless of net affiliations. K.C. MGR. SPORTS FILUN ON ANOTHER STATION Kansas City, Nov. 23. Sportscasting here has one of radio's most unusual: twists with I commercial manager of one station' serving as play-by-play announcer for another station. Mahlon Ald- ridge, commercial manager of KFRU, Columbia, Mo., is doing the talking on Missouri games over KCMO, Kansas City. Both stations are ABC outlets. An experienced sportsman in St. Louis, Aldridge ftiwe or less gave up the sports mike when he took over the KFRU post some time ago. He was called back, however; by an old: friend,'' E. K. ("Joe"). :Hartenboweri manager of KCMO,' who had to find a sports- caster in a hurry when Walt Loch- man, former sports editor, recently left the station. Aldridge stepped in and is finishing out the season for KCMO. Tony Williams, who has been handling sports and news for KCMO, takes over as sports editor at the station. 'NAME/ 'MAYOR' SHOWS , HEADED MUTUAL WAY Mutual may soon snare two new half-hour shows, one of them now on ABC and the other carried by that network last summer. Decision is expected soon on "What's My Name?", Saturday night giveaway starring Arlene Francis, and "May- or of the Townj" Lionel Barrymore stanza dropped in . June: by Nox- ■zema.-..; MBS hopes to pick up "Name" around the first of the year, when General Electric's Lamp Division will drop it^ However, it's indi- cated that Mutual won't touch the show unless the format is changed to eliminate telephone tieins. MBS prexy Ed Kobak blasted phone giveaways in a recent statement. One of the suggested revisions to get around the phone taboo in- volves the use of post cards. It's understood: that Mutual, hopes to sell the show to Servel, Inc., if the format problem can be whipped. It isn't known who MBS has in mind as a prospective spon- sor for-"Mayor of the Town" if that show is picked up. NAB Votes Plan to Encourage Use Of Practices Code Among Members Multiple Ownership Hearing Set for Jan. 17 Washington, Nov. 23. . FCC last week scheduled oral arguments for Jan. 17 on its pro- posed rules to limit multiple own- ership of radio and television sta- tions. ■ ■ . , , Debate is expected on the FCC plan to limit'an ownert to Ave tele- vision, six FM and seven standard outlets. Glickman's Knick Reprise -For the third straight year Marty Glickman, sports . director of WMGM, N. Y., is broadcasting the N. Y. Knickerbockers professional basketball games from. Madison Square Garden. Glickman is also handling the college games from the Garden for the fourth straight season, with Connie Desmond again his sidekick. Nedick's and Old Gold'are sharing the sponsorship. Glickman and Desmond are also doing about a third of the Knickerr bockers' road games> with the pair down for: approximately 100; 'Col- lege broadcasts, Including those from the Garden; the 69U| Regi- ment Armory and 10 Ivy League games. Buffalo^Roger M. Baker, com- mercial manager of WKBW, cele- brated his 20th year in radio on Nov. 20. On Nov. 20. 1928, Baker started his career as a staff announcer. Washington, Nov. 23, A plan to encourage adherence to the NAB code for broadcasters was agreed to at the quarterly meeting here -last week of the board of director^-of the National Assn. of Broadcasters. At the same time the board received a petition from one of its members to amend the NAB bylaws to deny the board authority to promulgate Standards of Practice. Following presentation of the petition by Edward F. Breen, man- ager of KVFD, Ft. Dodge, the board . voted unanimously to au- thorize a committee to draft a statement explaining the purpose of the proposed bylaw, this state- ment'vtp be acted upon at the boardls next meeting in February. The statement and the proposed bylaw would be circulated among the membership for referendum vote. The plan to encourage use of the code provides for the appointment of a .seven-member committee repr resenting AM, FM, television sta- tions and networks. Its functions include education. and information, interpretation, keeping the code: abreast of changing condtions in the industry, and expanding the code to meet "the rapidly develop- ing conditions of television." The board emphasized that the propo- sals don't envision any "infring- ment upon the discretionary powers oi: the licensee under the: law." The board also decided to step up activity in NAB'S FM depart- ment. It was agreed that Arthur C. Stringer, director of FM and Special ServiceSj will be relieved of supplemental duties "for an in- terim period" to forward develop- : ment of FM. broadcasting,:. The interim period will continue until the association has acted on' a pro- posed plan of. "functional organi- zation" to take into account de- velopments in television,. FM and facsimile. A five-member com- mittee wiU be 'Sikpointed by NAB president Justin Miller to prepare such a plan. In other actions, the board: Agreed to appoint "unaffiliated stations chairmen" in each of the 17 NAB districts and to set aside one day at: the association's annual convention to activities of unaffUi- - ated stations. Decided to proceed with produc- tion of sales material for an All- Radio Presentationi a promotional effort being undertaken by all seg- ments of the industry. Accepted into membership 74 radio stations which had applied since the last meeting in May. KATE SMITH TELEFAXES A 3-MINUTE TELEGRAM Washington, Nov. 23. Kate Smith last week inaugu- rated the first hotel installation in the U. S. of Western Union Tele- fax, which transmits a telegram in- a few minutes, by depositing the message in the slot of a facsimile machine and pressing a button. At ceremonies In the Wardman Park Hotel Thursday (18), Miss Smithdispatchedamessagetothe. Pentagon to Surgeon Gen. Ray- mond W. Bliss of the Army in sup- port of nurse recruitment. Within three minutes, an acknowledge- ment was received from General Bliss, Present at. the occasion were four membersvot the FCC: Rose! H. Hyde, fidward M. Webster, Rob- ert F, Jones and Miss Frieda B. Hennock. HENKY IN AS WWZI FREZ Michael Henry, who was man- ager of WTMV, Bast St. Louis, and who, since 1947 has been a mem- ber of the sales staff of WBBM, Chicago, joins WWXL; Peoria, a* president and senetal manager on Dec. 1. WWXL, owned l^ the Central Illinois Radio Corp, Is an indie 'Station on a fulltlme basis. ...over five million people listen to one station every weel Whon can you reach these five million? At any time, 20 hours of every day. KNX «ells long before sun-up...and is still selling at Midnight. Every minute on KNX is prime selling time. Here's proof... Ai *:1S In th« mernlnf t For twelve years more . .advertisers have spent more dollars on ¥iNX't Sunrise SfJutei in . combination with Housewives' Protective League, than on any .ether participation program west of Chicago. More dollars because Simrise SaluH makes more sales. At mirfnivhtt For more than six years Tom Uanlon'% M<rry-<>o-J?oun</has been selling cart for the Kelley Kar . : Company of Los Angeles. Kelley says: "W« sincerely believe that - . 'M?rrjrtCo-Aoun</ it one of the best possible advertising mediums . ' Kelley eould buyDuring just 6 months, 362 dealt were : traceable directly to the program. For direct tales it is the best program K«lley ha?." : Every minute, every davj is selling time on KNX. That's why... Year after year, local advertisers spend more dollars with KNX than uiith my other Southern Califomia station. KNX Los Angeks • 50,000 Wati