Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)

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16 JANUARY 4, 1960 Television Digest PUBLISHED BY TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC. WALTER H. ANNENBERG, President PUBLICATION OFFICE Radnor, Pa., MUrray 8-3940, TWX: Radnor 1028 JAMES T. QUIRK, MERRILL PANITT, Editorial Director Business Manager HAROLD B. CLEMENKO, Managing Editor JAMES B. DELEHANTY, DAVID LACHENBRUCH, Associate Editor Asst. Business Mgr. HAROLD RUSTEN PAUL STONE WASHINGTON BUREAU Wyatt Building Washington 5, D.C. Sterling 3-1755 ALBERT WARREN, Chief WILBUR H. BALDINGER WM. J. McA^AHON Jr. MARTIN CODEL Associate Publisher WEEKLY NEWSLETTER TV & AM-I NEW YORK BUREAU 625 Madison Ave. New York 22, N.Y. Plaza 2-0195 CHARLES SINCLAIR WEST COAST BUREAU 6362 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood 28, Cal. Hollywood 5-5210 DAVID KAUFMAN ADDENDA AM-FM DIRECTORY Published Mondays Published Saturdays Published in January TELEVISION FACTBOOK Published in March & September Copyright 1960, by Triangle Publications, Inc. Personals: Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr., onetime ABC vp & asst, to AB-PT Pres. Leonard H. Goldenson, more recently with Petrie reps, named NBC standards dir. . . . Louis Dorfsman promoted from CBS radio vp for advertising, promotion & press information (Vol. 15:40 plO) to creative dir., sales promotion & advertising, CBS-TV . . . Robert Pusey promoted from WBC West Coast operations asst, auditor to business mgr., KPIX San Francisco . . . William W. Huffman appointed mgr. of new video recording sales dept., WNBQ Chicago . . . Hugh Kibbey named sales mgr., WFBM-TV Indianapolis; Don Menke appointed station mgr. . . . Clive B. McKee promoted from industrial relations mgr., CBC, to dir. of industrial & talent relations. Courtney McLeod named West Coast regional mgr., ABC-TV station relations dept.; Robert Curran named Eastern & Midwest mgr., same dept. . . . Jack Emanuel, exWarner Bros., named NBC exec, story editor. Pacific div., with responsibility for creative control over scripts for NBC-owned shows . . . Jerome R. Reeves, gen. mgr., KDKATV Pittsburgh, named PR chmn., Pittsburgh chapter of the American Red Cross . . . George Sanders named program mgr., KPTV Portland, Ore. William Whitley, public affairs dir., KNXT Los Angeles and CBS-TV’s Pacific network, has resigned to “travel, study and widte.” . . . Frederick A. Kugel, editor & publisher of Television magazine, is expected back at his desk this week after recovering from a heart attack. David Melamed has been named dir. of administration of NT&T . . . Mort Granas appointed mgr. of budget & administrative services at CBS-TV’s Hollywood TV City. Dr. Herman L. Shibler, Indianapolis general superintendent of schools, and Wayne P. Watson, Terre Haute schools superintendent & pres, of Indiana Assn, of Public School Superintendents, have been named consultants for educational programs by Midwest Council on Airborne TV Instruction; John H. Worthington, U. of 111. public information mgr., becomes public information dir. of the MCATI project Feb. 1. Obituary William Godey Ellis, 64, RCA liaison officer and coinventor of the first radio compass used by the Navy in World War I, died Dec. 23. Ellis served as a Navy commander during World War I and helped organize the ArmyNavy Electronics Agency. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, a son and 7 grandchildren. Steady viewing decline among school children since 1955 is evidenced in studies released last week by Dr. Paul A. Witty, prof, of education, Northwestern U. Among Witty’s findings: Elementary school pupils watch TV 21 hrs.-per-wk. against 24 hrs. in 1955. High school pupils watch TV 12.3 hrs.-per-wk. now as against 17 hrs. in 1953. Viewing does not have an adverse affect on the health of children. TV hasn’t restricted outdoor or creative activities. There is little evidence that TV has a harmful effect on school work. The real problems, says Dr. Witty, are the excessive doses of crime and TV’s tendency to “generate cultural triviality.” Entries for 1959 Peabody TV-radio awards must be submitted by Jan. 10 to Dean John E. Drewry, Henry W. Grady School of Journalism, U. of Ga., Athens. Submissions may be made by individual stations, networks, TV-radio editors of any individual or organization, to invite consideration by the Peabody board of outstanding programs in the basic categories of news, entertainment, education, youth or children’s programs, promotion of international understanding, public service. Careers in FCC for attorneys & engineers were recommended by Comr. Fred Ford in a short address Dec. 29 before the First Annual Broadcast Career Seminar in Providence, sponsored by radio WICE. After describing the nature of FCC jobs and their potentialities for careers (and stepping stones), the former staff member stated: “The staff of the Commission is one of the most efficient, industrious, considerate and enthusiastic groups of employers in govt, or in private industry that you can imagine.” Meeting next week: RTES timebuying-selling seminar (Jan. 12). H. P. Lasker, Crosley Bcstg. Corp. sales vp, and William E. (Pete) Matthews Y&R vp-dir., media relationsplanning, will speak on “How Many Commercials Make Too Many?” Hotel Lexington, N.Y. Congress Payola probe plans : House Commerce Committee Chmn. Harris (D-Ark.) will caucus with his legislative oversighters soon after Congress reconvenes this week to decide where — & how far — they should go in public hearings on broadcasting’s payola practices. Ready for the investigative subcommittee’s first meeting in the new session will be a staff report supplementing a 22-page memo filed in Dec. by Chief Counsel Robert W. Lishman (Vol. 15:51 p6). It’s likely the new series of hearings — picking up where the subcommittee’s TV quiz probe left off (Vol. 15:45 pi) — will get under way this month. But their scope & duration will depend on how many staff-developed leads the subcommittee wants to explore. In addition to payola & plugola, the leads run into rating systems, for one thing, the subcommittee’s principal attorney Beverly M. Coleman told us. “Ratings might come into the hearings,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of complaints about ratings.” The subcommittee staff also was drafting an interim report on the quiz probe, due early this month. TV & radio reform “must be approached most 'carefully” by Congress, Sen. McCarthy (D-Minn.) warned in a speech to the Okla. Outdoor Advertising Assn, in Tulsa. He said action by Congress, the Administration and the broadcasting industry is needed to bring “substantial improvement” in the industry — but that “the problem is a complex one.” McCarthy added: “The recent exposures of dishonesty, misrepresentation and fixing of TV & radio programs raises the fundamental question of the limits of freedom of the press & communication in the U.S.”