Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)
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VOL. 16: No. 3
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Television Dig^est
PUBLISHED BY TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC.
WALTER H. ANNENBERG, Pretidenf
PUBLICATION OFFICE Radnor, Pa., MUrray 8-3940, TWX; Radnor 1028 JAMES T. QUIRK, MERRILL PANITT, Edlforial Direcfor
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. McMAHON Jr.
MARTIN CODEL Associate Publisher
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WEEKLY NEWSLEUER TV & AM-FM ADDENDA AM-FM DIRECTORY Published Mondays Published Saturdays Published in January TELEVISION FACTBOOK Published in March & September Copyright 1960, by Triangle Publications, Inc.
Personals: Alfred R. Schneider, ex-CBS-TV asst, to the
pres, and onetime ABC-TV asst, business affairs dir., returns to ABC-TV as administration vp . . . John A. Cimperman, former legal attache, U.S. Embassy in London, named NBC director of practices in the new dept, of standards & practices; Edward G. Smith named Pacific div. administrator; James A. Stabile heads the dept.; Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr. is the standards dir. . . . Robert B. Jackson named asst, controller, CBS-TV, Hollywood . . . Johnston F. Northrop appointed administrative vp & treas., Corinthian Bcstg. Corp.
William Hohmann named sales promotion & research dir., CBS-TV Spot Sales . . . William T. Corrigan named dir. of news & public affairs, KNXT Los Angeles and CBS-TV Pacific network . . . Norman Felton named dir. of programs & administration, CBS TV City, Hollywood . . . William H. Lynn Jr. named program development & supervision dir., ABC-TV Western div.; Carmine Patti appointed regional mgr., ABC-TV station relations dept. . . . Kurt Weihs promoted from staff artist to associate art dir., CBS-TV sales promotion & ad dept. . . . John Daly, ABC news vp, named to Public Health Service’s Water Pollution Control Advisory Board by President Eisenhower.
Dean McCarthy, operations mgr. of Storer’s WITI-TV Milwaukee, named to new post of quality control dir., Storer Bcstg. Co., headquartering in Miami; Glenn Boundy Jr., national sales service mgr., WJBK-TV Detroit, succeeds McCarthy . . . Robert D. Doubleday, gen. mgr., KATV Little Rock, Ark., promoted to vp . . . Bob Villar promoted from local-regional sales mgr. to commercial mgr., WSFATV Montgomery, Ala. . . . Douglas Duperrault, ex-WTARTV & WTAR Norfolk, Va., named promotion mgr., WFLA-TV & WFLA Tampa, Fla., succeeding Byron Taggart, named asst, national ad mgr., Tampa Tribune.
John E. Person promoted from sales mgr. to gen. mgr., ITC of Canada Ltd. . . . William E. Harder promoted to production vp of Fred Niles Productions, Edward E. Katz to vp-controller, Frederick B. Foster to vp-sales mgr. . . . Robert L. Hutton Jr., TV promotion dir., and Louis A. Smith, midwest TV sales mgr., named vps, Edward Petry & Co. . . . J. Sydney King, onetime program dir. of WBALTV Baltimore, returns as WBAL-TV & WBAL mgr. of public service & special events . . . Richard F. Kennedy elected vp for client services, BAR . . . Gustav B. Margraf, Reynolds Metals gen. solicitor, elected a vp.. He was an NBC vp 1948-1955.
Stations
Secy, of State Christian A. Herter heads the speakers’ list for the 38th annual NAB convention April 3-6 in Chicago at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. He will address the April 4 luncheon session. FCC Chmn. Doerfer is the scheduled speaker at the April 5 luncheon. As usual, the convention will be ke3moted by NAB Pres. Harold E. Fellows in his annual address at the April 3 opening session. The 14th annual Broadcasting Engineering Conference will be conducted in the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel across the street from the Hilton, where broadcast equipment exhibits will be located. An engineering-sessions innovation this year will be a 30-min. preview of the exhibits by Chmn. Warren Braun (WSVA-TV & WSVA Harrisonburg, Va.) following the April 4 opening of the conference.
FCC Comr. Craven will receive NAB’s 2nd annual Broadcast Engineering Award. He was picked for the 1960 honor by a Broadcast Engineering Conference subcommittee, headed by NAB engineering mgr. A. Prose Walker, which cited his work as head of the U.S. delegation at the ITU conference in Geneva last year in addition to his long Commission service. Now serving his 2nd FCC term (his first ran from 1937 to 1944), Craven also has been FCC’s chief engineer, a pioneer in directional antenna design and a private TV-radio engineering consultant. The award will be presented April 6 at a joint engineering-management luncheon in Chicago’s Conrad Hilton Hotel in conjunction with NAB’s 38th convention April 3-6. Winner of the first NAB engineering prize was the Hearst stations’ John T. Wilner (Vol. 14:51 p9).
WTVP (Ch. 17) Decatur, 111. is the latest acquisition, for about $600,000, by Metropolitan Bcstg. Co. FCC recently approved Metropolitan’s purchase of KOVR-TV Stockton, WTVH Peoria & radio WIP Philadelphia (Vol. 16:1 pll). Its other stations are WNEW-TV & WNEW N.Y., WTTG Washington & radio WHK Cleveland. Blackburn & Co. advised Metropolitan on the Decatur purchase.
KFBB-TV (Ch. 5) Great Falls, Mont, has been sold with radio KFBB for approximately $1 million by Wilkins Bi'oadcast Inc., with Joseph P. Wilkins remaining as pres. & operating mgr. New owners, operating as KFBB Corp., are David E. Bright, chmn., H & B American Corp. (aircraft parts & steel forgings); Ernest Scanlon, formerly UPA Pictures exec.; and Daniel O’Shea, ex-CBS vp, onetime pres, of RKO Radio Pictures.
Uhf CP (Ch. 62) has been granted for Tacoma, Wash, to the Tacoma School District No. 10, which plans commercial operation. Also authorized were a Ch. 76 translator for Cortez, Colo, and a Ch. 70 translator for Santa Rosa, N.M.
Elimination of beep tone for news stories phoned in & recorded but not for 2-way conversations, is provided in a new tariff filed with the FCC by AT&T. It goes into effect Feb. 6 unless FCC holds it up. So far, no objections in sight.
Single application for new TV station filed with FCC last week was for Ch. 35, Springdale, Ark., by William M. Harlow, owner of radio KBTN Neosho, Mo.
Testimony on TV allocations by FCC, before the Senate Commerce Committee, is likely to come during the last week in Jan. or first week in Feb.
Once-yearly return to air of WRAY-TV (Ch. 52) Princeton, Ind., which went off air in 1954, has been authorized by FCC for Jan. 18-Feb. 1 March of Dimes drive.