Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)

Record Details:

Title:
Weekly television digest
Date:
Jan-Dec 1960
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)
Leaf #:
00054
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television -- Periodicals, Television broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals.
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A weekly digest of brief reports tracking recent developments in the U.S. television marketplace. Published out of Washington, D.C. with much more focus on the retail of TV sets than the other D.C.-based trade paper, BROADCASTING. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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16 JANUARY 11, 1960 Television. Digest PUBLISHED BY TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC. WALTER H. ANNENBERG, President Radnor, Pa., MUrray 8-3940, TWX: Radnor 1028 MERRILL PANITT, Editorial Director HAROLD B. CLEMENKO, Managing Editor DAVID LACHENBRUCH, Associate Editor HAROLD RUSTEN PAUL STONE PUBLICATION OFFICE JAMES T. QUIRK, Business Manager JAMES B. DELEHANTY, Asst. Business Mgr. WASHINGTON BUREAU Wyatt Building Washington 5, D.C. Sterling 3-1755 ALBERT WARREN, Chief WILBUR H. BALDINGER WM. J. McMAHON Jr. MARTIN CODEL Associate Publisher WEEKLY NEWSLEHER Published Mondays NEW YORK BUREAU 625 Madisen 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 AM;FM DIRECTORY Published in January TELEVISION FACTBOOK Published in March & September Copyright 1960, by Triangle Publications, Inc. TV & AM-FM ADDENDA Published Saturdays Personals: Alfred R. Beckman appointed ABC vp in charge of the Washington, D.C., office, succeeded as ABC-TV station relations dir. by Robert Coe, promoted from regional mgr., ABC-TV station relations dept.; Edgar G. Shelton Jr., asst, to the pres, for national affairs in Washington, elected vp . . . Lester Bernstein, NBC corporate affairs dir., elected vp . . . W. Thomas Dawson, ex-CBS-TV, appointed ad & promotion vp, CBS radio. Howard Berk promoted from publicity dir. to dir. of information services, CBS-TV Stations & Spot Sales, succeeding Charles J. Oppenheim, who resigned to enter family business, Parfums Raphael . . . Charles A. Henderson named to new post of press relations mgr., NBC press & publicity dept., Cornelius K. Sullivan to new post of administration & services mgr., same dept. . . . Joseph J. Jacobs named asst. gen. counsel, ABC . . . Richard Kallsen promoted from CBS News correspondent in Beirut, Lebanon, to chief of new Caribbean bureau; Russell L. Jones moves from CBS News, Washington, to succeed Kallsen in Beirut. Joseph S. (Body) Sinclair, WJAR-TV Providence, R.I., mgr., elected a vp of parent company. The Outlet Co. (dept, store) . . . Robert E. Draughon promoted to sales promotion mgr. of Griffin group’s KTUL-TV Tulsa and KATV Little Rock . . . John J. Gemma named operations & traffic dir for KNXT Los Angeles and CBS-TV Pacific network, replacing Henry J. Schaefer, now WBBM-TV Chicago bus. mgr. . . . Thomas B. Fitzpatrick promoted to asst, chief of FCC hearing div., succeeding David I. Kraushaar, recently named a hearing examiner . . . Eugene F. Mullin Jr. & J. Parker Connor establish law firm of Mullin & Connor, Suite 300, Southern Bldg. (Sterling 32455), Washington, leaving Rhyne, Mullin, Connor & Rhyne . . . Walter E. Branson named vp of TV Stations Inc., station-owned film buying organization . . . Richard D. Lane named ARB Midwest agency sales mgr. Louis Wolf son, ex-radio WLOS Asheville, N.C., to vp, WFGA-TV Jacksonville, Fla. (both Wometco stations) . . . Rex King, ex-WSTV-TV Steubenville, Ohio, named gen. sales mgr., KELO-TV Sioux Falls, S.D Judd A. Choler, ex-WCAU-TV Philadelphia, appointed sales promotion dir., KMOX-TV St. Louis, succeeding Thomas Stanton, now an account exec Norman G. Gray promoted from salesman to local sales mgr., KXTV Sacramento, Cal. ... Dr. John W. Dempsey, U. of Detroit political science professor, named news & public affairs dir., WJBK-TV Detroit. He will continue teaching. J. Luckett Yawn Jr., Miami News bus. mgr., elected secy. & a dir. of Biscayne TV Corp. (WCKT Miami), replacing John L. Foy, resigned . . . John R. Heim promoted to dir. of FTC’s Bureau of Consultation, in charge of voluntary compliance program . . . Arthur Mermin & Ralph O. Winger advance to partnership in Cahill, Gordon Reindel & Ohl, N.Y., NBC legal counsel . . . Sylvia D. Kessler joins Washington law firm of Krieger & Jorgensen. Bud Rogers Moves fO Taft: One of TV’s pioneer tele casters decided to have a look at greener pastures last week. Lawrence H. (Bud) Rogers, who’s been synonymous with pre-freeze WSAZ-TV Huntington-Charleston, W.Va., since its inception in 1948, quietly announced he was moving over to Taft Bcstg. Co. as vp in charge of operations. He’ll make the switch March 1, report direct to Taft Pres. Hulbert Taft Jr., and assume supervisory charge of Taft’s 5 TV & 4 AM-FM radio stations (WKRCTV & WKRC Cincinnati; WTVN-TV & WTVN Columbus, 0.; WBRC-TV & WBRC Birmingham, Ala.; WKYT Lexington, Ky.; WBIR-TV & WBIR Knoxville, Tenn.). Huntington won’t seem the same without Rogers, and he told us it was no easy matter to resign as pres.-gen. mgr. of the station and as pres, of the corporation which operates WSAZ-TV & WSAZ. However, he felt that he needed more challenge. Behind the switch is a conflict of interests. Majority control of WSAZ-TV has passed from Roger’s family (his father-in-law, Huntington Herald-Dispatch and Advertiser Pres. Walker Long, owns 40% of WSAZ-TV), and Rogers has been unable to effect the plans & policies he believes necessary for the station’s growth. Rogers will remain on the WSAZ Inc. board until the end of the fiscal year, July 31. He will also continue as pres, of Kanawha Valley Bcstg. Co., which owns radio WKAZ Charleston. Meetings next week : RTES timebuying-selling seminar (Jan. 19). Carl Lindemann Jr., NBC-TV for daytime programs, and Frank Minehan, Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles vp & media dir., discuss “What’s the Difference in Daytime Audiences?” Hotel Lexington, N.Y. . . . National Religious Bcstrs. 17th annual convention (19-21), Mayflower Hotel, Washington . . . Ninth annual Sylvania awards (21), Hotel Plaza, N.Y. Bipartisan broadcasts by Sens. Scott (R-Pa.) & Clark (D-Pa.), who started a unique home-state public service program series last year (Vol. 15:40 p4), will be resumed during this session of Congress. They issued a joint announcement that the Aimed & taped political discussions will he carried every 2nd Sunday by 7 TV & 14 radio stations in Pa. The first program in the new series was prepared in Senate studios for Jan. 10. Applications for 8 CBS Foundation fellowships for 1960-61 “to help increase understanding of TV & radio as news & public affairs media” are being accepted by the foundation. Staff members of CBS News, CBS o&o stations and CBS-TV & radio affiliates are eligible for the grants, if they are affiliated with news & public affairs depts. Obituary Claire Mann, 48, TV & radio commentator on beauty & health, and for 10 years producer of a daytime series on WABC-TV, died Dec. 24 of cancer at her home in N.Y. She is survived by her husband. Dr. Stephen Nordlicht, and her father.