Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1959)
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PUBLISHED BY TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, WALTER H. ANNENBERG, PrtsidenI
INC.
WASHINGTON BUREAU Wyatt Bldg., Wash. 5, D.C. Telephone Sterling 3-1755
ALBERT WARREN, Chief WILBUR H. BALDINGER PAUL STONE WM. J. McMAHON, JR.
PUBLICATION OFFICE Box 700, Radnor, Pa. Telephone Murray 8-3940 JAMES T. QUIRK, Business Manoger JAMES B. DELEHANTY, Asst. Business Mgr.
MERRILL PANITT, Ediloriat Director HAROLD 6. CLEMENKO, Managing Editor WILLIAM WIGHT, Associate Editor DAVID LACHENBRUCH, Associate Editor
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MARTIN CODEL, Associate Publisher
Weekly Newsletter Published Saturdays
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Television Factbooks Published in March and September
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AM-FM Directory Published in January
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TV and AM-FM Addenda Published Weekly
Copyright 1959, by Triangle Publications, Inc.
Personal Notes: John W. Kluge, head of group which recently acquired Metropolitan Bestg. Co. from Paramount Pictures (Vol. 15:2), named board chairman; v.p. Richard D. Buckley promoted to pres. & chief executive officer, succeeding Bernard Goodwin, resigned . . . Wm. S. Paley, CBS chairman, named chairman for broadcast industry of Federation of Jewish Philanthropies’ 1959 campaign . . . Daniel Friedman, asst, chief of appellate section. Justice Dept, anti-trust div., moves to Solicitor General’s office, to be succeeded by Richard Solomon, who is resigning as chief of litigation div., FCC Office of General Counsel . . . Robert Fuller, ex-information director of WCBS-TV, named publicity director of CBS Films. He is succeeded at WCBS-TV by John Horn, ex-CBS-TV. Howard Berk promoted to publicity dix-ector of CBS 0-&-0 stations & CBS spot sales . . . John F. Lynch, ex-NBC-News, named asst, director of public affairs for CBS News, succeeding the late Johji P. Jefferson . . . Julian Goodman, NBC, elected chairman of Washington Radio & TV Correspondents Assn. Other officers: vice chairman, Lewis W, Shollenberger, CBS; secy., Ann M. Corrick, WBC; treas., John H. Secondari, ABC . . . Robert H. Paasch, ex-WRCV-TV, Philadelphia, named chief engineer of WCKT, Miami . . . Jack C. Liddle, ex-C. R. Stout Adv., named public services director of CKLW-TV & CKLW, Windsor-Detroit . . . Edward L. Morris, ex-United Charities, named development director of educational WTTW, Chicago, succeeding Chalmers H. Marquis Jr., now program director . . . Claud O’Shields promoted to gen. mgr. of WECT, Wilmington, N. C. . . . Mort Silverman, ex-gen. mgr. of WJMR-TV, New Orleans, named gen. mgr. of radio WJBO, Baton Rouge . . . Murray Benson, ex-sales mgr. of CBS TV Enterprises, named director of licensing for CBS Films, succeeding Syd Rubin, resigned . . . Charles C. (Bud) Barry, who resigned last week as Loew’s v.p. in charge of MGM-TV, also an ex-NBC v.p., named pres, of National Telefilm Associates film network . . . Sol C. Siegel named px’oduction head of MGM studio TV film production, Hollywood . . . Ernest Levine, presently comptroller, promoted to gen. mgr. of California Studios . . . Irving H. Ludwig prompted to pres. & gen. sales mgr. of Buena Vista film distribution subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, succeeding Leo F. Samuels, resigned. Louis E. Gaudreau, exbusiness mgr. & treasurer, promoted to exec. v.p. & treas.
. . . Wm. Froug, ex-Screen Gems, named production director of Goodson-Todman, Hollywood . . . Arthur Spirt, exIndependent TV Corp., & mid-west v.p. of TPA prior to its acquisition by ITC, named mid-west v.p. of Gi-oss
Krasne-Sillerman with headquarters in Chicago; v.p. Raymond Wild moves from Chicago to head new Detroit office for central-west . . . Dick Lawrence, ex-World Bestg., named gen. sales mgr. of Ziv’s Economee TV Programs div. . . . Eugene C. Wyatt, ex-ABC-TV sales mgr., named v.p. for network sales of Bernard L. Schubert Inc. . , . George Frank, ex-Klein, Hinds & Finke, named secy.-treas. of Theatx’e Network TV . . . Lee Cannon, ex-TV Pi'ograms of Ameiica, named mid-west div. mgr. of Independent TV Corp.; Alton Whitehouse, also ex-TPA, named southeast div. mgr.; Leonard Warager, ex-Cal. National Productions, named northeast div. mgr. . . . George Gruskin resigns as TV-radio co-director of Wm. Morris Agency to establish own office as consultant in progi'amming, sales & financing of TV & motion pictures . . . John K. Markey, exN. Y. Daily News, named mid-west mgr. of rep Devney . . . Robert A. Schmid, ex-station relatipns v.p. of MBS, owner of I’adio WESC, Greenville, S. C., named TV-radio v.p. of rep Headley-Reed . . . Pat Griffith Mower, onetime women’s activities director of NAB, joins Washington office of Richards Associates, public relations counselors.
Correction: James A. Stabile, newly named NBC diI’ector of talent & program contract administration (Vol. 15:2), succeeds v.p. James E. Denning, resigned, and repox’ts to v.p. & gen. attorney Thomas E. Ervin. We regi'et the error in last week’s letter.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES: Fletcher Richards is pi’es, of newly merged Fletcher D. Richards and Calkin & Holden agencies. Bradley A. Walker, ex-chairman of Calkins & Holden, is chairman. Paul Smith, ex-pres. of Calkins & Holden, is board vice chaii-man. Edmund F. Johnstone, ex-exec. v.p. of Dowd, Redfield & Johnstone, is exec. v.p. . . . Richard E. Meade promoted to v.p. of J. Walter Thompson’s Seattle office . . . Richard E. Goebell promoted to v.p. of Compton Adv. . . . Darrell C. Roberts promoted to administrative v.p. of MacManus, John & Adams . . . Wirt McC. Mitchell promoted to chairman of Geyer, Morey, Madden & Ballard new creative plans board . . . Hal Dickens, ex-Walter Schwimmer Co., Chicago, named v.p. of Edward H. Weiss & Co. there . . . Horace E. Curtis, ex-Benton & Bowles, named v.p. of Sullivan, Stauffei-, Colwell & Bayles, N. Y. . . . Daniel J. Duffin promoted to v.p. of Ei’win Wasey, Ruthi-auff & Ryan . . . Arthur E. Taylor promoted to v.p. of Reach, McClinton & Pershall, Chicago . . . Alan Ducovny becomes TV-radio dii’ector of D’Ai’cy Adv.
Rate increases: WSTV-TV, Steubenville, 0. Jan. 1 raised base hour from $500 to $550, min. $120 to $140. WLBT, Jackson, Miss. Jan. 1 raised hour from $400 to $450, min. $90 to $120. WKBT, La Crosse, Jan. 1, hour $360 to $400, min. $72 to $80. KTVC, Ensign, Kan. hour $100 to $130. CIILT-TV, Sherbrooke, Que. hour $465 to $485.
International Advertising Film Festival June 9-13 in Cannes, Fiance, will have a “Grand Prix de la Television” and piizes for 5 categories: live-action, 15-30 sec.; liveaction, 31-60 sec.; animation, 15-30 sec.; animation 31-60 sec.; live-action or animation, 61-150 sec. Inquiries about Festival should be directed to: The Sixth International Advertising Film Festival, 15 Berkeley St., London, W.l.
New reps: KOMO-TV, Seattle, to Katz Jan. 1 (from NBC Spot); WICU-TV, Erie, to Blair Television Assoc. Jan. 1 (from Petry); WKST-TV, New Castlc-Youngstown, to Weed Dec. 1 (from Everett-McKinney).