Variety radio directory (1939)

Page scan 000906 from Variety radio directory

Record Details:

Title:
Variety radio directory
Date:
1939
Publisher:
New York : Variety, Inc.
Volume:
Variety radio directory (1939-1940)
Leaf #:
000906
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Year Book
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
September 19, 2024
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SPORTS BY STATIONS— Continued (Gort Wilbur; Joseph Dyer). WNAC and WAAB, Boston.) WNOX, KNOXVILLE, TENN. All baseball games of Knoxville Smokies (also in 1939) for Wheaties and Goodrich Rubber (Lowell Blanchard). All University of Tennessee football games for cooperative sponsors (Joe Epstein). Miscellaneous basketball games and tourneys for Knoxville News-Sentinel (Mike Hunnicutt) . WOAI, SAN ANTONIO, TEX. Southwest Conference football for Humble Oil (Kern Tips; Hal Thompson, both of KPRC, Houston, for the Texas Quality Network). WOC, DAVENPORT, IA. All high school football games and all University of Iowa football games for Block Coal Co. (Moon Reagan). Local and Chicagoland Golden Gloves boxing (1939) for De Soto Dealers (Moon Reagan). WOKO, ALBANY, N. Y. Albany Senators baseball games for Atlantic Refining (Wheaties and Atlantic Refining in 1939) (Gren Rand; Sherb Herrick). WOL, WASHINGTON, D. C. Eleven Washington Redskins pro football games for Tru Blu Beer (Tony Wakeman, play-by-play; Frank Blair, color). WOMI, OWENSBORO, KY. High school football and basketball for local sponsors (LeRoy Woodward). WOMT, MANITOWOC, WIS. High school and state tourney basketball for cooperative local sponsors (Fred Hessler). WOPI, BRISTOL, TENN. Eleven football games (teams not listed) for various local sponsors (Fred Reuning, eight games; Fey Rogers, one game; two games via hookups). WOR, NEW YORK CITY. Yale and other major college football for Atlantic Refining (Bill Slater). Brooklyn Dodgers 1939 baseball games for Wheaties, SoconyVacuum and Procter & Gamble (Red Barber). WORK, YORK, PA. Franklin and Marshall football games for Atlantic Refining. Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies 1939 baseball games for Atlantic Refining (from WIP, Philadelphia). WOWO, FT. WAYNE, IND. Eight-game schedule of Purdue and Indiana uni (Also see versifies football for Mercury Oil (John Hackett). Indiana state 1938-39 high school basketball championship, plus super-regional tourney, plus final tourney for Dietzen Bakeries (John Hackett). WPAR, PARKERSBURG, W. VA. All high school football games for local sponsors (Ken Given). WPAY, PORTSMOUTH, O. Portsmouth Red Birds baseball games for Kellogg (Paul Wagner). Portsmouth high school and Central Catholic football for local sponsors (Paul Wagner). WPG, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. AH home games of Philadelphia Athletics for Atlantic Refining (Byrum Saam, of WIP). University of Pennsylvania (and other major college) football for Atlantic Refining (Woody Wolf, of WCAU). For 1939 baseball schedule, see WIP, Philadelphia. WQAM, MIAMI, FLA. Two Miami University football games for Nehi (Leslie Harris). WQDM, ST. ALBANS, VT. Home baseball games of St. Albans team in the Northern League for Dominion Dry (Ed Anderson; Orson Jay). Montpelier home baseball games on days when St. Albans games were not broadcast, for Esslinger Ale (? Killick; ? White). (Note: Same baseball setup in 1939, but sponsor not revealed.) WRBL, COLUMBUS, GA. All Columbus Red Birds (South Atlantic League) baseball games for Kellogg (Jack Gibney). Seven high school and seven vocational high school football games for Nehi (Jack Gibney). Five University of Georgia football games sponsored locally and by Beeman's Laboratories (Jack Gibney). (Note: 1939 Red Birds baseball is sponsored by Wheaties and Goodrich Rubber (Jack Gibney). WRDW, AUGUSTA, GA. Home and away baseball games of the Augusta Tigers for Atlantic Refining and Kellogg (Atlantic Refining only in 1939) (Thurston Bennett). Georgia Tech football (also in 1939) for Atlantic Refining (Thurston Bennett). Local football and basketball and Master's golf tourney for local sponsors (Thurston Bennett). WRGA, ROME, GA. Baseball (team not listed) for Coca-Cola (Price Selby). 880