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Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons The Maine Broadcaster Local History Collections 11-1948 The Maine Broadcaster : November 1948 (Vol. 4, No. 11) Maine Broadcasting System (WCSH Portland, ME) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/mainebroadcaster THE ~!-~~ BROADCASTING MAINE BROADCASTER. _,f'SYSTEM \ Affiliate PUBLISHED AS AN AID TO BETTER RADIO LISTENING VOL. IV, No. 11 .. Portland, Maine, November, 1948 Price Five Cents NBC Stations Plan Full Election Coverage MeBS Boosts 4. ............ .-H Club Project Kef•p Your Own Score Entire Evening On pages 2 and 3 of this issue, Buys Champion The Maine Broadcaster provides an election tabulation chart with To Be Devoted Baby Beef At which its readers, if they so de sire, may keep a running tabula Fryeburg Fair tion of the Presidential election As you listen to WCSH , 'WRDO To Tabulations To substantiate its demo11srrared' results, Tuesday evening, Nov. 2. inter~t in the future of .,'lain e ,:gricul or vVLBZ, all of which will carry Maine radio listeners are assured of rnre and the part of yout11 in that the full election reports of the a fast, accurate and complete coverage. furure, the Maine Broadcasting Sys tiooal Broadcasting Company's ace on Presidential election returns the tem wenc co auction at the Fryeburg reporters and commentators, start night of Tuesday, November 2 F'air early in October and purchased ing at 8.00 p. m. and continuing through facilities of the MeBS sta the grand champion steer of the show. until midnight or later, you will tions. V-'CSH, WRDO and WLBZ, The price was 80 cents a pound, and find this chart convenient for in all NBC affiliates, in common with the champion, "Domby" co his young serting the figures given from time the network, will devote the entire master, Herbert York of Mosher to time by the network reports. evening ro reporting results of the Hill, Farmingron, weighed 1010 nation-wide balloting. pounds. He was a Hereford and The Chen-olet division of General grand champion of the show and the Motors and the Chevrolet dealers of snle. McKernan Airs the country are sponsoring the elec It was the 11th annual sale of Four tion returns over BC, and the net H Club baby beef and the second of Weekly Sports work is r.roviding its top experts for the season at Nlaine fairs. le was also the job of reporting country-wide the largest baby beef sale held in the Stint On WLBZ returns. state since the beef raising project Commentators on the job will ju was undertaken by the 4-H boys and elude H. V. Kalcenbon1, Robert girls. Seveney-five steers, aggi-egat Trout, Richard H arkness, Morgan ing 73,689 pounds, were sold that Beatty and vV. W. Chaplin. All morning at Fryeburg Fair and netted programs regularly scheduled for the their r.oung owners a rota! of evening of Nov. 2, from 8 o'clock on, $28,702.72. Four-H Clubs of 14 have been cancelled to make way for Maine counties were represented. reporting election results. _,....~ouh~ Yor.k, whc'.r ,rais~d t,he cham- In addition co election reporcs from .,, - pion, 1s a memlicr of the Beef Busters the 48- stMCS of the LTnion, NBC re Club. porte;'s will bring .reaccfons from for "Jake" Bro fee. agricultural director eign capitals, at varii'ius times during of the Maine Broadcasting System bid 1 the evening, as the voting trend be on che champion for the radio net 'comcs established. work. Lowest price paid for any steer was J2 cents a pound, and the Elsewhere in this, issue of The Maine Broadcaster will be found an average paid for aU the beef was 39 GREETTNG AND- PARTING- Young Herb-ert York of Farmington is con cents per pound. election rabulation chart, provided gratulated by Jake Brofee, who es high bidder has just purchased youth's especially to enable readers of this Four-H Club boys and girls inter grand champion steer at auction at Fryeburg Fair. Boy's mingled emotions, ested in the baby beef project annual paper ro keep a running record of pride at receiving top price, and regret over partng with his pri7.,e steer, election returns as the e1·ening pro ly purchase their calves when the seem .apparent in photo. animals reach a weight of between gresses. JOO and 350 pounds. They are assist ed in selecting their stock by Sam Dorrance, livestock specialist of the National Gra~ge Convention John McK~rnan WRDO's Jean Murray State Deparm1enc of Agriculture, working with rhe 4-H Club county Established in good standing with Doubles Schedule agents, and on problems of feeding Broadcasts Booked On MeBS sports fans is the Thursday evening and raising. Members of the Maine The three stations of tile Maine \ VLBZ feature, Maine Sports, with Stepping up her program schedule the three-station network is a round with the addicion of a quarter hour Livestock Association also assist the Broadcasting System are expecred to table discussion by prominent Grange John McKernan. The well-known youngster in their project, as does offer several broadcasts from the Na northern Maine spores writer is heard each morning, Monday through Fri leaders on subjects of interest to rural day, W RDO's Jean Murray is living Kenneth Lovejoy, 4-H Club leader tional Grange convention scheduled weekly on Thursday at 7.30 in chis listener~, sometime during Saturday, up to the title of her broadcasts, "Go of the University of Maine Extension for Portland from ov. 10 through Nov. 13. 1 period of sports information and com ing Places". The new series is aired Service. 19, "Jake" Brofee, MeBS agricultural mentary, as well as in play by play The National Broadcasting Com at' 9.30 a. m. and i\iliss Murray retains The young stockmen raise their clirecror and convention .radio chair pa~y has under consideration origi reports of football and, in season, ~reers until they weigh approximately man for the Grangers, has announced. basketball games in the WLBZ area. her previous program schedule at nating one or more programs from 2.00 p. m. each afternoon, five days 1,000 pounds; usually ac the age of Brofcc, who is a member of the McKernan flavors his Maine Spotts the convention, also, and may schedule weekly. Both programs are carried 17 months, then sell them at auction Grange, expects that number of program with predictions on gridiron a the National Farm and H ome Hour under the original title, Going Places at one of the Maine summer fairs. radio farm directors of radio net battles around the state, interviews from Portland on Saturday, the 13th, \¥irh Jean Murray. works and important scatic)ns through according- to information received by with coaches and sports figures, and a out the country wi l.l visit Portland Brofee. weekly tribute to some outstanding The morning edition features local Grange To Join during the convention and broadcast plnycr or coach. His weekly "Salute dub news. notes on fashions and other or record programs for the benefit of to the Man of tl1e Week" highlights items of feminine iDterest. The after their home audiences. Sports Assist the performance of an indivi dual who noon program has such features as in In First Radio I Important among the Grange pro excels in his particular field during terviews wi_th Red Cross personnel, Parish Service A new systom for sporting players the current week. school teachers and supervisors, grams planned or proposed, Brofee in broadcasts of football and basket For his interviews, if the personality housewives and persons in general On Sunday, Nov. 14, officers and expects rhat the MeBS network wiU baU games has been perfected by ro be presented is unable to be with whose ·activities make for interesting members of the National Grahge are carry a special broadcast Tuesday Manager Ed Guernsey and sport McKernan in person Thursday even listenin~. Often M"iss Murray presents to join in the regular morning wor evening, Nov. 9, the eve of the con casters John McKernan and Eddie ing, the director records his subject's the Umted Press features, Women in ship of the First Radio Parish Church vention opening, from the reception Owen of the \,VLBZ staff. The new views in advance and presents them as the News and In the Women's World. of America, the Rev. H oward 0. to ational Grange officers in the system has been used successfully dur part of the broadcast. McKernan Hough, minister, has reported. This Eastland ballroom, Portland. Partici ing the current football season and keeps a sharp ear turned to the sports . McKernan, now co-owner and pub Sunday falls during the ational con- pating in the program will be U. S. will be utilized during the coming events of interest all over the state and lisher of the Penobscot Times, former 1·ention of the order in Portland. Senator Owen Brewster, Governor hoop season in broadcasts over includes those he believes of greatest ly was sports editor of the Bangor Services will be held in the East H orace A. Hildreth, Gov.-elect WLBZ. interest to his vVLBZ audience. Daily News. land Auditorium at the usual hour, Frederick G. Payne, Albert E. Goss, The system enables the play-by ational Grange master, and Car JO to 11 a. m., and music will be by E. play announcer to have the current the Radio Parish quarter. roll Bean, master of the Maine State line-up and substitutions at his finger Grange, and ivlrs.