Variety (Jan 1949)

34 RADIO Wednesday, January 19, 1949 Tele Chatter sss Continued from page 24 sss esting, it-would seem that In the rehash the whole thing could be! edited down to a half-hour. Hold. tribution of motion pictures for both theatre and television . .Tele- vision Picture Distributing Co., headed by Toby Aneuish, will make a series of one-reel westerns for television.. .Doy O'Dell will star in the pix titled "U. S, Marshall O'Dell".. .Jubalaires doing new show on KLAC-TV.. Hal Eugene Roach Productions has started shooting first of series of 13 do- mestic comedy vidrpix today- June Collycr and Stuart Erwin are han- dling the lead roles. Films are be- ing tailored to half-hour slot . PUilco Digest of Sports has moved from KTSL to KTLA. Half hour video program gets Friday night beaming.. : Masked Spooner, tele- lehsed over WTSL and sponsored by Kaiscr-Frazer, has been can- celled . Steve Allen, KNX disk jockey, doing "Take It From There" TV show over KTTV. Allen emcees the half-hour show which features guest appearances. Format revolves around a given incident which guests are asked to build into a story . Doix Tatum, NBC and ABC attorney, will represent both nets at Academy of Television Arts and Sciences first Annual Seminar Jan; 25. Tatum will dis- cuss TV problems... Perry Pasme- zoelu making a television survey for Fox-West Coast theatres and keeping the theatre chain posted on »ew developments.. .Hal Gibr Hey and Frank Bwrtoit have been put on KNBH announcing staff.. ■ ^^^^^ ^WDSU Pi'Si WDSU broadcasts JfiOO w»it ^-J? ■ , from .the. French Quarter to the Gutf and South Louisiana listeners. From daily association with time-honored Stw Orjeaiii iiltlitt/ttONS WDSU has. developed .a high quality of :intej^rity.! WDSU Acyotes program time regutarlf andxxclusively to the St: Louis Cathedral, the International House, Moisant Inter, r national Airport, Tulanc University, Un ion Station, theMunictpal Auditoritiiii, Symphonies and Operas. ! .: WDSU'S dominate (loop. etatidg pioyes iliac hon. Ofing' iocaif. institutibhs vt:re.ates high...listener Jerry Lawrence has forsaken spinning platters for a charade program on KFL-TV. Chicago Fran Allison has added another video show to her schedule, with the "Fran Allison Show," debuting Sunday (16), 6:45-7 p.m. (CST) on WENR-TV, and telecast over east- ern and midwestern ABC net . WBKB using new automatic Multi- scope 42 hours weekly, in place of station's test pattern, which also gives correct time, latest weather report and press news . Walt's Workshop and Take a Dare added to WNBQ*s lineup, eadi starting this week . George Harvey, sales manager, WGN-TV, addressed Ad Exec Club of Chi and gave hints to future tele advertisers.. .Vivian Blaine; pic star and singer; hosted by Nate Gross, Herald-American; columnist, on his "Man About Town" show, WGN-TV, Friday (14) ."Tea Time," new video offering, WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee; is aimed at women audiences via household demonstration.. .Over 750 Chi- cagoans on hand Thurs, (13) to catch Lanny Boss's NBC Swift show, beamed out of Chi for first time to eastern outlets plus added midwestern stations.. ."Cross Ques- tion," WGN-TV's weekly jury trial program, goes over east and mid- west CBS tele network, starting Jan. 18 .: John Mitchell becomes new business manager, WBKB, this week "Spell With Isbell," WGN-TV, moved to new spot, Mon- day (17) from former Wed. eve schedule.. .Lyn Connelly joins WBKB as member of publicity staff.. Jay Farairhan, program di- rector, WGN-TV, represented video at fouriman parlay for furniture and appliance conventioneers, at Merchandise Mart last week ■., Duane Bogie becomes an assistant producer in program department, WNBQ :. James Taylor and John Alexander joined WBKB as assist- ant directors last week.. . Arthur Avery, WGN-TV broadcast technic cian, upped to supervisor, with Glmef Cawthon; Woodrow Crane and. Charles Rothers becoming asst. supervisors.. : Ann. Libberton joins NBG-TV staff as script girl . Kcii Ponte going full-speed ahead in new post, WBKB's pro- duction dept' WESTON'S PRESENT With Jimmie Shields, Mary Mor- rison, Edmund Hockridge, John Sturgess, Geoffrey Waddington Orch and'chorus; Byng. Whitte- ker and John Drainie, an- inouhcers Producer: Gordon Forsyth Writer: . H; Ernest Foster 30 Mlns.; Fri., 9:30 p.m. WESTON'S BISCUITS CBS, from Toronto ' iHarry Foster) In a bright musical format, fea- turing highlights' from famous musical' comedies and operettas* Weston's has returned to the ait for its first postwar program series. Teeoff ' (7) showed a generous loosening: of the purse-strings, with top Canadian soloists and a 16- voice mixed chorus backgrounded by Geoffrey: Waddington's 27-man orch. Originating from CJBC* Toronto;. program* is carried hv 32 stations of the Dominion network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., In three: 10-minute-act segments, opener featured solos and choruses from Romberg's "New Moon," Friml's "Rose Marie" and G. & S.'s "H.M.S. Pinafore" for a stirring stanza that saw all principals, chorus and orchestra in top form. Production was spirited and dis- ciplined, with the four soloists and chorus: all bringing requisite inteipretation to rousing marching songs and other pops that have been famous for many years. Whole stanza packs plenty of punch, with eredit'to all .concerned. Commer- cials were brief and pointed. Staxj. BMB ^^^oyi NEW ORtEANS 1^80 kc WDSU ABC Affiliate 5000 Radio Reviews : continued from page 22 s in basketball, baseball, footban, and hockey, the latter introduced to Louisville for the first time in 1948. Other local news took in the Farnsley story, recounting of the town's mayor and his innovations, such as "beef sessions" at the City Hall, and other projects; which have garnered much space in the local newspapers, and on local ra- dio stations. ■ Sliow was a fine example of building an hour show from li- brary matei-ial, as well as showing fine coordination between the vari- ous departments of the station. While most of the stuff was inter- For Frofitobie Selling-Investigate WDEL WGAL WILMINGTON DELA. lANCASTER PENNA. Russ, U. S. s Continued from page 23 sss and head home. Specifically, they indicated despair of an. agreement and put the bee on the U. S. to re- lease its plan by Jan. 24 at the latest. .The Latinos al^ made much of the fact that it is costing the countries $13.56 a minute just to keep the secretariat in Mexico, apart from the expenses of the in- dividual delegations themselves. The stratospheric costs have led the Swiss and other small delega- tions to plead for a quick windup of the sessions. Countries are aware that. unless agreement on shortwave is reached here, work of i the Atlantic City and Geneva conferences last year may be nul- lified. The U. S. or Russian proposals mean that some shortwave trans- mitters will actually have to shut down in many countries if all na- tions are to get effective use of the ah-. The Russian group is expected to oppose any retrenchment in their part of the globe and none of the delegates wants to accept less than they now. have. To hurdle the space shortage, it was suggested that power up to 1,000.000 watts be used—instead, ot the present 50kw ceiling-—for long^hop .broad- casting, say from New York to London. The Russos have already objected to this since^ their limit rii|ht now is 120kw power. Some ot the .s-maller countries who can't EtfTord top power are going along with the opposition too. Continuing headache at the ses- sions so far has been the Soviet's I insistence on its plan for DX pro- I gramming—a proposal which- cuts I present U. S. operations over 40% I but gives satelliV Ukraine, for ex- ample, more channels than that country actually requested. — Continued from page ?0 s higlr-powered stations had lost some drawing power during the the past couple of years due to the great increase in the number of stations. Threatened to Cancel One station operator, Julian L. Skinnell, manager of WLBR, Le- banon, Pa., threatened to cancel his subscription to BMB if tlie sur- vey were postponed. In a letter of, Miller, Skinnell said that the great changes in the broadcast picture demanded early completion of the study. He said few stations "will continue to pay the substantial dues required month in and month: out without some service in return for this expense." Subscription fees for the BMB service are charged in ratio to the station's revenues. Format of the upcoming survey will be virtually identical to the first one conducted in 1846 with the exception of a couple of refine- ments. Via mail ballots to 600,000 families, BMB will cover the audi- ence of all U. S. stations on a countyrby-county and city-by-city basis. One of the improvements in the current study: will be a break'^ down of station audiences on week- ly and daily, and daytime and nighttime averages. BMB's mini- mum requirement is 50% returned ballots from each county. ■ End result will give each sta- tion's pulling power on a numeri- cal and percentage-of-the-whole basis. Only subscribers will receive the info collected, including all; data on non^subscriber: stations. Results of the survey are slated to: be published in September, Exec committee making the de- cision to go ahead with the survey was composed of J. Harold Ryan, Port Industry stations; chairman; Frederic Gamble; 4 A's proxy; Paul West; ANA proxy; Joseph Allen, Bristol-Myers Co.; Leonard Bush, Compton Advertising; Roger Clipp, WFIL; and Miller and Feltis. Int'l Harvester Going Bacl{ to Daytime With Its'Harvest of Stars' International Harvester has de- cided it's had its full of nighttime radio and is restoring its "Harvest of Stars"' show back to Sunday afternoon on NBC. - Harvester switched over to CBS last year, taking the Wednesday' night 9:30 segment, but in the face of the "Mr. District Attorney" competi- tion from NBC, it never made the bigtime Hooper grade. Beginning of April "Harvest" moves into the Sunday 5:30 period, currently occupied by RCA's Bos- ton Pops-Robert Merrill show; Latter program, in turn, would be moved up a half-hour, but that's still contingent on an okay from the RCA moguls. Jane Pickens is -now heard at 5 and she'would be moved into the 4:30 slot; Previously "Harvest" and RCA had also been showcased baekrto- back Sundays, the former occupy- ing the 2:30 period, with RCA at 2. Air Royalty , It's Park Avenue audition time around WOR, N. Y., these days. Brace of shows on the station's upcoming agenda, if the audition wrinkles can be ironed out, in- clude a Gloria Vanderbilt femme chatter stanza, and a program by Princess Obolensky, emanating from her home; featuring guest in- terviews, etc. UOPWA CBS UNIT SEES FIREWORKS AT N.Y. MEET Factional, struggle brewing with- in the CBS white-collarite unit of the United Office and Professional Workers , of America is expected to break into the open at a mem^ bership meeting of the local to- night (Wed.). Opposing groups comprise the present leadership of ] the UOPWA and a dissident rank- andj-file caucus calling itself the "Pro-America group." Dispute stems from dissatisfact tion with the union pact UOPWA recently signed with CBS manage- ment. The dissidents claim that be- • [ cause of the failure of the union i I to comply with the Taft-Hartley ! law it was at a disadvantage in I the contrixt negotiations. M-G.M— 'On an Island with You' THK CAMBI. 8HOW Kvery l<'riany I«It«, g:30 K.S.T. Mgt.: LOU CLAYTON "WaM abova tha usual daytima fare." BILLBOARD. murMKEs WUTKX? for Ivory Flakei CBS, Mon. thru Fri. 2:45-3 P..M. With JOHN K. M. McCaffrey Written and Dlrertril' l>]r ADDISON SMITH HARRISBURG PENNA. WKBO WRAW READING PENNA. Lever Bros. Continued TroM p<ige Z\ WORK MWEST YORK PENNA. EASTON PENNA. r STEINMAN ^BBi STATIONS Clair R. McCollough, Managing Oireclsr.. ROBERT MEEKER ASSOCIATES » Chicago ' San Francisco New York los. Angelel "Inna's" $7,500 weekly tab and "Scouts" $6,500 nut add up, on a per-point ba.sis, to one of the juicl est commercial parlays riding the kilocycles. - - Since moving up an hour into the ex-Amos 'n' Andy NBC slot, Hope has maintained about the same rating average, but in view of the $22,500 talent-production nut, the, homes-per-dollar story is less impressive than "Irma" or, "Scouts." And while A'n'A nose-| dived immediately following their i switchover to CBS, as inheritors' of the post-Jack Benny slot on Co- lumbia, they're again riding high and handsome. "Wheaties, natch t" Denver —Outbidding two east- ern breweries, with bidding stop- ping at $50,000, the Adolph Goors Co , brewers, has latched onto the broadcasts for the Denver Bears baseball games, both home and abroad, for the year, using KMYIt for the airing. DEAR AL: I sHil don't believe Jan August could rnake a piano sound off that many notes without some gimmick. I'm sure there's more on this in this week's Variety, page 45 JOE