Word: wnew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada Lee, one of Broadway's top ranking Negro actors (Native Son, The Tempest), turned disc jockey for Manhattan's WNEW. But he wasn't saying why: "One doesn't admit that one would like to make money...
...Jazzman Paul Whiteman for an hour spin five days a week. Mutual last week opposed him with an older spinster: Martin Block. From his four sponsors, Whiteman will gross $208,000 a year; Block will get $312,000, plus a couple of hundred thousand more from Manhattan's WNEW and Los Angeles' KFWB (altogether, disc jockeying's top dollar...
Because voices know no color line, Manhattan's independent WNEW last week signed an all-Negro company to do a 13-week series of radio dramas, starting Sept. 16. WNEW said that it hired the group because it was good, not because it was Negro. One proof that the company, the American Negro (repertory) Theater, is indeed able: its Anna Lucasta is now in its second year on Broadway...
...WNEW auditioned 70 Negro players, discovered no difference between "white" and "Negro" voices, found voices for all types of parts from pure cockney to half-breed Mexican. WNEW will mention the American Negro Theater only once-at the end of each program...
...station's present owners, who also own WNEW, have to sell because of an FCC ban on anyone's owning two stations serving the same area. But, said FCC, the would-be buyers, Brothers Murray and Meyer Mester, Brooklyn dealers in edible oils, have had brushes with the Federal Trade Commission-and other Government agencies. They had sold cottonseed oil, in containers decorated with "olive branches . . . and wording in Italian . . . for the apparent purpose of misleading buyers into thinking that the contents consisted of imported olive oil." Besides, FCC added, the Mesters had not been entirely frank with...