Evening star., 1948-10-31
For Radio Listeners
By Harry Macarthur

Tuesday night the attention of
radio and television broadcaSters
will be focused with singlenesS OF
purpose you probably will not see
again for another four years. This
attention will be turned toward the
results of the first post-Roosevelt
presidential election, with all the
networks and all the full-time local
stations vying in the attempt to pro-
vide the most complete, most in
teresting report on the results.
While voting still is under way at
polling places in time zones to the
West, radio will start counting bal.
lots and seeking trends. All stations
will start election news rolling early
in the evening and continue with
frequent tabulations of votes and
interpretations until the final result
Is obvious even to a defeated candi-
date for office. Most Of the broad
casters plans still are in fluid state
and Tuesday nights schedules win
depend largely on the nature of the
election news of the moment, but
any stop On your dial will put you
In touch with radios coverage of the
nights big news.
Broadcasts from The Star city
room, over WMAL, will start at 7:55
pm, with Bill Coyle presenting fire.
quent 5-minute summaries prepared
by members of The Star staff. Mr..
Coyle's reports will pay special at
tention to results of Maryland and
Virginia balloting, with coverage of
the national picture largely being
left up to the ABC network. The
network, as CHS, Mutual and NBC
have also. has set up vast ma
chinery of writer's and commentators
for tabulating and analyzing the
election news.
Since a presidential election can
have a more immediate effect on a
number of Washingtonians than on
any one else outside of presiden-
tial candidate, The Stars radio .cov-
erage also will include reports by
Joseph Young. The Federal Spot
light columnist will discuss the pos
sible meaning to Government en-
ployes of election results.
Planning to devote its time to
nothing but election news after 8
o'clock Tuesday night, WRC also
will pay special attention to results
affecting local listeners. with two
5-minute periods each hour assigned
to John Cramer, columnlSt, who
reports Civil Service affairs.
Election reports will start at 8
pm. on CHS CWTOP) at pm. on
MBS CWOL) and at 8 pm. on NBC
lWRC). The independent stations
WINK and WWDC). as well as FM
stations, also will revise Tuesday
nights schedules so that full atten-
ton can be given to election results.
This, incidentally, is the first elec-
ton night when the major radio
networks will find themselves being
paid for something they would be
doing anyway, the returns this year
being sponsored. Automobile manu-
facturers are bearing most Of the
brunt, with Nash Motors sponsoring
on CHS, Kaiser-Fraze on ABC and
Chevrolet on NBC Mutual's elec-
ton broadcasts will be presented in
cooperation with the Curtis Pub
fishing Co."
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Television also will be busy Tues
day night, this being video's first
opportunity with national election.
1t was only three years ago that
television news was made with
MICS first .telecast of an accept
ance speech by a candidate for a
major Office, that of William
ODwyer when he became Mayor
of New York City.
A large part of the television re-
porting will consist of coverage of
coverage, with the cameras moving
in On radio and newspaper news
rooms. Locally. WTTG will telecast
election reports from the city room
Of the Times-Herald.
In addition to reports by COM
mentators, the video networks will
lock in on various points of interest,
bringing candidates before the
cameras, visiting headquarters Of
political parties and capturing Wis