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...PHILADELPHIA-where $20,000 in bogus $10 bills has recently been passed- WCAU-TV televised a counterfeit and a genuine ten-dollar bill (Hollywood is forced by law to photograph nothing but stage money). With Secret Service sanction, a commentator pointed out the differences (e.g., on the counterfeit, Hamilton's hair is lighter and whiter). WCAU has also televised pictures of wanted criminals, on the theory, says News Director Harold L. Hadley, that "guys who are wanted will frequent taprooms that have television." Fellow barflies are expected to turn them...
Lost Voice. In going out of business, Dave Stern left the third largest city in the U.S., which once had 16 newspapers, with only two major dailies-and only one editorial viewpoint. With the crusading Record, conservative Publisher McLean got powerful (50,000 watts) Radio Station WCAU and the Camden papers. McLean intended to keep the radio station going and incorporate the Record's Sunday features (among them the American Weekly) in a Sunday edition for the Bulletin. The profitable Camden papers and the weekday Record, which he did not want, he could sell at his leisure. Meanwhile...
Elliot's detractors say he had a head start. His father is program director of WCAU, the CBS station in Philadelphia, and got the kids radio time. CBS also owns Columbia Records, and the Lawrence band has snared a profitable recording contract. But even allowing for a starting push, Lawrence's band is doing well on its own. Their college dates were paying as high as $3,000 a night and their first record, I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time and Strange Love, has been a steady seller for two months...
Jabbing Radio Row has been Henry Morgan's favorite pastime for 14 years. He has lost good jobs and good sponsors by ridiculing commercials, mocking soap operas, burlesquing bigwigs and romping through childish pranks. Philadelphia's WCAU once sacked him when he listed station executives (whom he seldom met) in the missing persons' bureau broadcast. (Says Morgan, gleefully: "It was days before they discovered...
...Among North American stations cited for initiative were WJNO, West Palm Beach; WQAM, Miami; CKCL, Toronto; WCAU, Philadelphia; WJR, Detroit; WLW and WCKY, Cincinnati; WNYC, Manhattan and KGO-KPO, San Francisco...