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Daren F. McGavfen. Mike McNal ly, former Chicago manager, is resigning . . . George Schmidt to vice president and eastern sales supervisor ol Radio T.V. Representativs . . . Bill Humphreys to Dean & Slaughter with sales responsibility for The Dakota Salesmaker Radio Stations . . . David Miles, former general manager of KGEM, Boise, to regional and national sales director for Pacific Adult Radio stations in conjunction with Grant Webb. He'll headquarters in Eugene, Ore. . . . Richard K. Helledy to account executive at Storer Television Sales, Chicago. Station Transactions WIRL, Peoria, has been sold by Frudeger Broadcasting to Twelve Ninety Radio Corp., a whollyowned subsidiary of the Kankakee Daily Journal. Frudeger will continue with the new company as a director. Howard H. Frederick, presently general manager, will also continue with the station. KASK (AM & FM), Ontario, Calif., has been sold by the Daily Report Company for $150,000. New owner is a group headed by J. W. O'Connor and Frank Babcock, midwest broadcasters with interests in WBOW, Terre Haute; WHUT, Anderson; WJRL, Rockford; WCVS, Springfield; WPEO, Peoria. Edwin Tornberg negotiated the sale. Sale price on KDOT, Reno, was $60,000. Paul Schafer, automation equipment manufacturer, has turned the station over to a group headed by Reno psychiatrist Dr. Richard Brown. Others in the group include Ronald Straight, Robert Foster, and Ridge Harlan. Tornberg handled the sale. Film ing the first commercial model of RCA's TK-60 camera, a 4yL>-inch image orlhicon camera which has been five years in development and two years in testing. The camera, capable ol reproducing faithfully an expanded and controllable contrast range permitting increased latitude in dramatic and artistic lighting, should have farreaching applications in the field of tv commercial production. Sales: Robeck 8c. Co.'s "Trails West" to 35 new stations, upping the market total to more than 70 . . . MCA TV's off network "Dragnet'' to eight more stations, "Bachelor Father" to three more stations, "MSquad" to six additional markets and "Love That Bob" to three new stations . . . ABC Films' "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" is sold in 110 markets to date . . . Screen Gems' latest group of 73 Columbia feature films to WSYR-TV, Syracuse, WAPI-TV, Birmingham, and WTPA, Harisburg. Sales on SG's first Columbia feature package of post-'48's were made to WSTV-TV, Steubenville, WRDW-TV, Augusta, and WRGP-TV, Chattanooga . . . KYW-TV, Cleveland, bought Allied Artists Television's 82 features for weekend and Early Show programing . . . Niles Organization's "Ed Allen Time" to WPIX-TV, New York, raising total markets to 24 . . . Seven Arts' volumes four and five of "Films of the 50's" to WOC-TV, Davenport; WTVT, Tampa; KLEY-TV, Lafayette; KSHO-TV, Las Vegas, upping total sales to 30. PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: Richard Restler to assistant to the vice president of Trans-Lux Tv . . . Norman Turell to president ol Walter Reade-Sterling's Screen News Digest Sales division . . . Larry Spangler to supervisor of radio and tv programs lor the Niles. Communications Centers. Niles. distributes "V.d Allen Time" . . . Robert Weenolsen, for nine years. Rheingold broadcast supervisor at Foole, Cone & Belding, to Videotape Center as an executive producer. Equipment A new transmitting beam powertube, first of its kind to feature RCA's 'dark heater,'* has been in-, troduced for mobile communications and amateur radio transmitters. Designated the RCA-8032, the tube may be employed as an rf power amplifier and oscillator as well as an af power amplifier and modulator in both mobile and fixed equipment. Zenith has topped the million mark on tv receiver sales for thefourth successive year. The mark was passed this year A breakthrough in video tape commercial production will be demonstrated for advertisers and agencies by MGM Telestudios. The M-G-M subsidiary is install we give the facts a thorough airing Media transactions present a risk as well as an opportunity to both buyer and seller. But the risks are considerably narrowed when all of thefacts are available through our penetrating knowledge of the ever-changing market. BLACKBURN & Company, Inc. RADIO • TV • CATV • NEWSPAPER BROKERS NEGOTIATIONS • FINANCING • APPRAISALS WASH., D. C. lames W. Blackburn lack V. Harvey Joseph M. Sitrick RCA Building FEderal 3-9270 CHICAGO H. W Cassill William B. Ryan Hub (ackson 333 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois Financial 6-6460 ATLANTA Clifford B. Marshall Stanley Whitaker |ohn G. Williams Gerard F. Hurley 1102 Healev Bldg. I Ackson 5-1576 BEVERLY HILLS Colin M. Selph C. Bennett Larson Bank of America Bldg. 9465 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills. Calif. CRestview 4-8151 SPONSOR/5 NOVEMBER 1962 75,