Evening star., 1948-09-26
For Radio Listeners

} Listeners
be available to all television stations
that want them, including members
Of CHS, ABC, NBC and Dumont
networks. Eastern games in the Sc
ries will be viewed by audiences in
Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, Richmond,
Schenectady and New Haven. If the
Cleveland Indians should win, home
games in that city will be viewed
in Cleveland, Toledo, Buffalo, St.
Louis, Detroit, Chicago and Mil
Waukee.
| Bing Crosby and Al Jolson are
among the big names returning to
the airways this week. Crosby will
be heard Wednesday night over
WMAL, 10-10:30, with his four sons
as guests. Jolson will be back with
The Music Hall over WRC Thursday
evening at 9.
In the wake of CBSs CWTOP)
announcement two weeks ago of the
sale of its radio network coverage
of the coming election to an auto
mobile manufacturer ABC and NBC
release news concerning their ex-
tensive radio and television plans
for reporting national voting results.
NBC CWRC) boasts that a staff
of 300 will be engaged to assemble,
handle. report and broadcast the
election story. It's radio and tele-
/ vision coverage will begin at pm.
EST, election night with H. v. Kali
tenborn and Robert Trout co-ordi-
mating for radio and Ben Grauer
and John Swayze doing the same
for the video net.
DR.. George Gallup, public opinion
analyst, joins the ABC (WMAL
staff of nearly 200.
An added starter in the CHS
(WTOP) coverage Is Lowell Thomas,
who has broadcast election returns
since 1882.
Radio programs WRC pro-
gram revision shows Yale Wander
b!lt game to be aired October % and
Princeton-Dartmouth November 20.
On October 10, Paul Hume to
be heard preceding New York Phil
harmonic broadcaStS on WTOP.
Variations on a Theme moves
October II from Sis pm. to
1915 am. Fact Finder finds new
hour at $40 pm. beginning october
4. Labor Arbitration, during
which actual cases involving dis |
putes between labor and manage
ment, resumes tonight over WWDC
and WWDC-FM at 10 pm. &. Hill
billy Star Grandpa Jones joins Con-
nie B. Gays radio troupe on WARL
and has his own show daily Monday
through Saturday, 10:45-11. Pete
Cassel, the Blind Minstrel, takes
the weekday 10:15-l0:3O am. spot.
WGAY's popular Farm Family
Hour, presented Sundays, 2-2:3GI
pm, in cooperation with Univer-
sity Of Maryland and featuring
music, farm news and weather re-
ports, today introduces the Ray H.
Norton family, owners Of Western
Breeze Farm, Potomac, Md.
WBCC is presenting the BIC United
Nations news roundup via short
wave, 5:15-5:30 pm, every day the
U. N. session convenes in Paris. :.
WMAL and The Star cooperate
with the Community Chest Red
Feather Campaign in the first of a
weekly series Of dramatizations
Thursday nights, 10-10:15, written
by Bill Brown, WMAL production
man. and produced by Jack Logan
Series is titled Design for Giving"
Video programs. New WNBW
televisfon schedule now in effect,
providing for continuous broadcast
ing starting $50 pm. Monday
through Friday. Television Journal
with Johnny Bradford now seen
Tuesday through Saturday $50 pm
WTTG transmits WMAR-TV'S
pickup Of racing at Laurel next
Thursday and Friday at 4 pm. and
Saturday, 4:30 pm. MMAL-TV
premieres new ABC puppet show for
youngsters titled Lucky Pup tomor-
row night $50.
People. Mentalist Robert L.
Friend (On Wings of Thought
WMAL-TV) keeps the secrets in the
family when he marries his assist
ant, Marion Banks soon. Bill
Herson, WRC's morning man,
credited by trade journal Bill Board
with helping to rediscover the old hit
You Darlin'" which has been Bills
theme song for II years. Glare
Boardman is the new assistant
promotion and publicity director at
VOL replacing Nellie Greaves who
goes WRC. 3-Star Extra COM
mentatorS busy on the road. Felix
Morely booked for speech at Cham
Der of Commerce meeting in Column
bus: Ray Henle to address National
Coal Association in New York; and
Ned Brooks just returned from
Dewey campaign train. Roy
Passmann, ex-staf member OF
WTOP and VOL, new assistant to-
general manager of WABD and
Dumont Television Network. . AL
Warner, MBS Washington news bu-
reau chief, now in Massachusetts
General Hospital for rest and peri
odic check up Robert Nichols
leaves New York Herald Tribune