Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1959)

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9 PUBLISHED BY TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC. WALTER H. ANNENBERG, President PUBLICATION OFFICE Box 700, Radnor, Pa. Telephone Murroy 8-3940 JAMES T. QUIRK, Business Manager JAMES B. DELEHANTY, Asst. Business Mgr. MERRILL PANITT, Editorial Director HAROLD B. CLEMENKO, Managing Editor WILLIAM WIGHT, Associate Editor DAVID LACHENBRUCH, Associate Editor NEW YORK NEWS BUREAU 625 Madison Ave., N.Y. 22 Telephone Plaxo 2-0J95 CHARLES SINCLAIR WASHINGTON BUREAU Wyatt Bldg., Wash. 5, D.C. Telephone Sterling 3-1755 ALBERT WARREN, Chief WILBUR H. BALDINGER PAUL STONE WM. J. McMAHON, JR. MARTIN CODEL, Associate Publisher Weekly Newsletter Published Saturdays • Television Foctbooks Published in March and September • AM-FM Directory Published in January TV and AM-FM Addenda Published Weekly Copyright 1959, by Triangle Publications, Inc. Personal Notes: George Shupert, pres, of ABC Films which he organized in 1953, onetime United Artists v.p., resigns to become head of MGM-TV. His successor has not been announced . . . William B. Dolph resigns as pres, of American Bcstg. Stations Inc., 49% owner of WMT-TV, Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, and owner of WMT there and KWMT, Ft. Dodge. Mrs. LeRoy Marks replaces him as pres., William B. Quarton continuing as exec, v.p., Helen J. Jett named secy. Helen M. Hermann, treas. . . . Norman Racusin, NBC-TV network director of budgets, pricing & planning, adds duties of business affairs director, succeeding Howard L. Lettes, now RCA v.p. and controller . . . Brent O. Gunts, ex-Brent Gunts Productions, Baltimore, named mgr. of Hearst’s WBAL-TV, Baltimore; Thomas S. Carr, ex-NBC, 1951-58 administrative asst, to Md. Gov. Theodore H. McKeldin, named mgr. of radio WBAL. They replace Leslie H. Peard Jr., who resigned as mgr. of both stations, plans unannounced . . . Oliver Treyz, ABC pres., named chairman of TV committee for National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Week. Matthew f Joe) Culligan, NBC radio exec, v.p., named chairman of radio committee . . . Michael Nitdorf, international TV administrative & programming exec., named American program rep of Radio Luxembourg . . . Harry Huey, formerly gen. mgr., KOLO-TV, Reno, named v.p. and gen. mgr., American TV Co., licensee of KNAC-TV, Ft. Smith, Ark., succeeding Walter Windsor, who returns to gen. mgr. post at KCMCTV, Texarkana, Tex., where he succeeds Richard M. Peters, resigned . . . John Hay Whitney, Ambassador to Great Britain, will receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Exeter U., March 17 . . . Joseph E. Cain, pres, of P. R. Mallory, elected a director. Gross Telecasting . . . Lloyd E. Cooney promoted to gen. sales mgr., KSL-TV, Salt Lake City . . . James Robertson, ex-WTTW, Chicago, and WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee, joins Educational TV & Radio Center, Ann Arbor, as station relations director . . . Robert J. Rich, ex-radio WEBC, Duluth, named asst, mgr., WDSM-TV & WDSM there . . . Richard Pryor promoted to program mgr. of affiliated KTBC-TV & KBTC, Austin, and KRGV-TV & KRGV, Weslaco, Tex. . . . Avery Chenoweth, ex-educational WUFT, Gainesville, Fla., one-time art director of WMBR-TV (now WJXT), Jacksonville, named program director, WSAZ-TV, Huntington-Charleston, W. Va. . . . Alexander P. Hunter, ex-commercial mgr., KING-TV, Seattle, promoted to asst, to v.p. & gen. mgr. Otto P. Brandt. James D. Neidigh promoted to sales mgr. . . . Dr. David Parker, director of public services & educational programs, Westinghouse KPIX, San Francisco, named to new post of editorial writer. He’s succeeded as education director by Fred Joslyn . . . James H. Ferguson, ex-WSAZ-TV, Huntington, W. Va., named program mgr., WMCT, Memphis . . . Willis C. Beecher, partner in Kear & Kennedy, Washington consulting engineers, takes leave of absence because of illness . . . William A. Cornish appointed national sales director, Flamingo Telefilm Sales . . . Kay Norton, now a consultant, elected v.p. in charge of administration. United Artists Corp. . . . Marc Daniels promoted to v.p. in charge of programs. Theatre Network Television Inc. . . . Kurt Blumberg, ex-ITC, named administrative assistant to United Artists Television exec. v.p. Bruce Eells . . . James Weathers promoted from nat. sales mgr. to gen. mgr. of Ziv-owned World Bcstg. System . . . Leonard S. Gruenberg, ex-RKO Radio Pictures, named v.p., Gross-Krasne-Sillerman . . . Fred Raphael, ex-J. Walter Thompson, named client relations mgr.. Videotape Productions, N.Y. . . . Joseph B. Durra, ex-Ciba Pharmaceutical Co. adv. mgr., is gen. mgr. of new American Television Communications (260 Kearney St., San Francisco) specializing in closed-circuit TV programming . . . G. Carleton Hunt, General Film Labs, Hollywood, named financial v.p. of SMPTE. S. P. Solow, Consolidated Film Industries, Hollywood, becomes treas. . . . Leonard Levy to head new Chicago branch office of TV film commercial firm of Robert Lawrence Productions Inc. . . . William J. Tynan, of rep. Peters Griffin Woodward, named a v.p. and Chicago-based midwestern sales mgr. Howard Pyle, whose resignation as deputy asst, to President Eisenhower was accepted this week, won’t resume radio activity but will become pres, of National Safety Council, Chicago, Feb. 1. Ex-Gov. of Ariz., he was once program executive of Arizona Bcstg. Co. (KVAR & KTAR, Phoenix; KYUM, Yuma & KYCA., Prescott). National Religious Broadcasters gave a special citation at 16th annual convention in Washington this week to NAB pi’es. Harold E. Fellows for “courageous leadership” in broadcasting. The group also praised him for “significant contribution to freedom of the airways.” In accepting award. Fellows assured questioners from the floor that NAB has “held the line” against liquor commercials on TV & radio. He pointed out that “one of two” stations which had announced acceptance of hard liquor advertising was now abiding by NAB’s Standards of Good Practice (Vol. 15:2). Other speakers at the convention included FCC Chairman Doerfer, and Sen. Holland (D-Fla.), who made brief remarks. Obituary Hulbert Taft Sr., 81, retired editor and publisher of The Cincinnati Star and chairman of Radio Cincinnati Inc. (Taft stations) died Jan. 19 at his home in Indian Hill, near Cincinnati. A nephew of former President William Howard Taft, and a star newsman, he raised strong objections when the Times-Star was sold last summer to the Cincinnati Post, with which it was then merged (Vol. 14:30). Radio Cincinnati owns WKRC-TV & WKRC, Cincinnati; WTVN-TV & WTVN, Columbus; WBRC-TV & WBRC, Birmingham; WKYT (TV), Lexington, Ky., and 30% of WBIR-TV & WBIR, Knoxville, Tenn. His son, Hulbert Taft Jr., pres, of Radio Cincinnati, founded WKRC-TV in 1949. Another son, David G. Taft, is exec, v.p. & TV-operations supervisor of Radio Cincinnati. He is also survived by his widow, 2 daughters, 9 grandchildren.