Evening star., 1935-08-04
By the Radio Editor.
.HOUGH occasional local skir-
mishes are still being reported,

"HOUGH occasional local skir-
mishes are still being reported,
the war" between radio and
u the newspapers is virtually at
an end. More newspapers are obtain
ing radio station licenses, and the
idea that they are bitter-end COM
petitors has apparently been cast to
limbo. Even Editor & Publisher, trade
journal of the newspaper profession
and always a harsh critic of American
broadcasting, now takes the editorial
stand that the radio "is essentially a
means of public communication, and
neither a competitor nor ally. but
adjunct of the daily newspaper in
strument."
A thorough recapitulation OF the
ownership of American broadcastlng
stations by newspapers reveals that to
date exactly 1T out of the $40 sta
tions in the United States, one In
Hawaii and Is in Canada are wholly
or partially owned by newspaper in
terests. At least 80 more stations are
currently being sought by publishers
either through purchases or'the secur-
ing of new station licenses from the
Federal Communications Commission.
The opposition of the newspapers to
the broadcasting of news has also ap-
parently disappeared into the rare at
mosphere of the ether waves, for two
of the leading press associations are
now supplying news to radio stations
exactly as they do to newspapers.
United Press and International News
Service report an aggregate of about
rs radio clients now purchasing their
news, while Transradio Press, inde-
pendent radio news-gathering organ
ization, claims to have $50 station
clients.
The eagerness of publishers to gain
a foothold in radio, which most OF
them admittedly have ignored until
recent years, was illustrated again last
week when the owners of the Okla
homa City Daily Oklahoman & Times.
leading newspaper of that State, pur-
chased Station KLZ, Denver, for
5000 900. The report Immediately was
circulated that they proposed estab-
fishing another newspaper in Denver.
but this was quickly denied. 1t was
explained that E. K. Gaylord, pub
Usher of the newspaper. formerly lived
in Colorado and still maintains a
Summer home there and was buying
the station purely as business ven-
ture. Mr.. Gaylord already operates
WKY, Oklahoma City.
Recently the owner o: the Pen
sacola (Fla.) News and Journal, who
also publishes the Jacksonville Jour-
nal and the Reading (Pa.) Times,
purchased WCOA, Pensacola, which
he is now operating as an adjunct to
his newspaper. Then the publishers
of the Amarillo (Tex) Globe-News
bought out two local stations and
combined them into one, now known
as KGNC.
A few months ago the Ardmore
(Okla) Ardmorite secured an F. c. c.
grant for a new local station, which
is now on the air as KVSO, and at
the present time the Superior (Wis)
Telegram, large owners of WEBC, Du-
luth, is putting the finishing touch
to its new station in Hibbing. Mimi,
which is expected to be on the air
in September as WMFG. The Supe-
rior Telegram also has had favor
able F. c. c. examiners report on its
proposal to erect another new station
in Virginia, MINI.
Senator Arthur Capper, publisher
of the Topeka CKans) Capital, which
operates WIBW in Topeka, has q
deal pending for the acquisition of
WLBF, Kansas City, Kans., which he
intends to operates as an adjunct of
his other daily newspaper. the Kan
sas City Kansan. Anon Carter, pub
Usher Of the Fort Worth Star -Tele-
gram, which operates WBAP there,
has an application pending for an
other station In Fort Worth, and Will
liam Randolph Hearst's latest of the
six stations he owns is KEHE, Los
Angeles, operated in conjunction with
his Los Angeles Examiner.
John Stewart Bryan, publisher of
the Richmond News-Leader and
president of William and Mary Col
lege, is a current applicant before
the F. c. c. for authority to purchase