October 30, 1948

Radio and television are currently married, but a divorce is expected in the not too distant future. New York city will apply for a television frequency through the FCC once all factors have been taken into consideration. . . CBS announces Studio One will be produced for television. The premiere will be The Storm on November 7. . . WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, is five months old. They have 51 advertisers. . . Columbia Records announces that their records will cost 79 cents instead of 75 cents, effective November 1. . . The number of television sets in Detroit vary from 5,000 as high as 9,000 and as low as 3,500. Bars play a minor but significant role in how many ever television sets there are in Detroit. . . Gene Krupa had problems with Canadian customs two weeks prior to the 30th. Seems his instruments didn't have the proper paperwork, so Krupa and band members were detained overnight. . . the song Buttons and Bows is the 3rd most popular song for the week. You can buy versions by Gene Autrey, the Dinning Sisters, Betty Garret, E. Knight, Betty Rhodes, or Dinah Shore. . . some of the most popular songs played in juke boxes are Twelfth Street Rag by Pee Wee Hunt, It's Magic by Dinah Shore, and Bouquet Of Roses by Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys. . . the term "Race Records" had yet to be changed to Rhythm And Blues. Long Gone by Sonny Thompson Messin' Around by Memphis Slim and Daddy-O by Louis Jordan are just a few of the best selling records for the week. . . (I Just Received Word) Mom Is Dying Tonight by Jimmie Osborne is released on the King Label out of Cincinnati Ohio. . . vaudeville gross for the week in New York is $466,000, compared to $462,000 the week before. . . Kevin McCarthy was Hurt Heger in Bravo, a play at the Shubert Theater in New Haven Connecticut which opened on October 21. . . Bob Morton has two elephants for sale. One is 39. The other is 36. . .

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January, 1942. . .Robert Ryan debuts on Broadway (Belasko Theater, New York) in Clash By Night with Tallulah Bankhead. He just might have star material. . . Mr. Jays from New York wants hair. 12 inches long, cut from heads only. Will pay two, 10 cent defense stamps for every ounce. . . approximately 100,000,000 records were sold in 1941. . .there are 50,000 people in New York who have FM receivers. The national count estimate is 1,000,000. Chicago comes in at 25,000, Los Angeles 15,000 and Detroit 12,000. . . Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo is the number one song across the nation. . . on January 16, Carole Lombard boarded a Transcontinental & Western Airlines flight in Indianapolis. The plane crashed on Table Rock Mountain near Las Vegas on the 17th, killing her, her mother, her press agent, and 19 others. She was born Carol Jane Peters in Ft. Wayne Indiana on October 6, 1908. . . Tin Pan Alley writer Fred Fisher committed suicide on January 14 by hanging himself. His first hit song was If The Man In The Moon Was A Coon in 1902. The song sold 2,500,000 records. Other hits he penned: Peg O' My Heart, I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store, and Auf Weidersehn. . .