Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)
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14
DECEMBER 12, 1960
Television. Digest
PUBLISHED BY TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC.
WALTER H. ANNENBERG, President
PUBLICATION OFFICE Radnor, Pa., MUrray 8-3940, TWXi Radnor 1028
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Copyright 1960, by Triangle Publications, Inc.
Personals: Storer Bcstg. changes: Effective Jan. 1, Wil
liam Michaels, vp & managing dir. WJBK-TV Detroit, becomes regional vp, Detroit & Cleveland; Terry H. Lee, vp & managing dir. WAGA-TV Atlanta, becomes regional vp, Atlanta, Toledo, Milwaukee.
Fred von Stade, ex-WTVN-TV Columbus, 0. national sales mgr., appointed gen. mgr. of Taft Bcstg.’s WKYT Lexington, Ky., succeeding Robert Wiegand who becomes WTVN-TV gen. mgr. . . . Jerrold P. Merritt, WICS Springfield, 111. chief engineer, has been advanced to engineering dir. of the 3 Plains Television Stations, WICS, WCHU Champaign, WICD Danville.
Norman S. Livingston, onetime NBC executive, appointed vp of Tv Stations Inc. . . . John D. Maloy named programming dir. for WNAC-TV & WNAC Boston . . . Chester L. Stewart, Reeves Bcstg. vp, appointed president of Reeves Sound Studios div. . . . Soterios (Buddy) Pappas named ad & promotion dir., WTTG Washington.
Arthur D. Stamler, ex-radios WBUR Boston, WHIL Medford, Mass, and WGUY Bangor, Me., w’ho has been operating his own Washington public relations firm specializing in station promotion, joins NAB’s public relations staff . . . CBS’s John Walsh has resigned as coordinator of special TV programs to become exec, dir.. International TV Festival . . . Harry Wagner joins WSUN-TV St. Petersburg as program mgr., succeeding Leo Ribitzki who takes over supervision & production of special community-service programming . . . Thomas A. Pendleton, ex-Naval Ordnance Lab, Silver Spring, Md., joins Washingrton TVradio engineering firm, Jansky & Bailey, as advanced technical development dept, head . . . Peter P. Theg named exec, vp. Broadcast Time Sales.
Frank P. Fogarty, WOW-TV & WOW Omaha vp-gen. mgr., elected RAB chmn. . . . Gayle Gupton resigns as dir. of radio’s Clear Channel Bcstg. Service, Washington, returns Jan. 1 to Third National Bank, Nashville; successor not yet selected . . . Gene LaBrie, ex-Columbia Records, named program dir., Jletropolitan Bcstg. Worldwide div.
Michael M. Grilikhes, gen. program exec, for CBS-TV. Hollywood, and Laraine Day have taken out a marriage license . . . A1 Flanagan named pres., NAFI broadcast div., as Kenyon Brown steps down to devote his time to other interests. Flanagan will continue as mgr., KCOP Los Angeles . . . Henry R. Flynn, ex-NAFI Corp. bcstg. div. executive, becomes vp in charge of Kenyon Brown’s per
sonally-owned radio stations KFOX Long Beach, KITO San Bernardino, KSON San Diego, KANS Kansas City, KGLC Miami, (Okla.) . . . Asher H. Ekide, supervising attorney in FCC’s Common Carrier Bureau since 1956 & member of U.S. delegation at 5 international conferences, named a hearing examiner.
E. W. (Ted) Scripps, vp of Scripps-Howard Newspapers and associated TV-radio stations, elected pres, of Sigma Delta Chi; CBS Pres. Dr. Frank Stanton named a Fellow of the professional journalism society, the first broadcast executive to be so honored.
Los Angeles Angels, new baseball club franchised by the American League, will be controlled by a group heavily loaded with broadcasting names. (3ene Autry (KOLD-TV & KOLD Tucson, KOOL-TV & KOOL Phoenix, radios KMPC Los Angeles, KSFO San Francisco and KVI Seattle) is chmn. of Golden West Baseball Co., which won the franchise. His partner, Robert R. Reynolds, is pres.; Paul A. O’Bryan of the Washington communications law firm of Dow’, Lohnes & Albertson is vp & gen. counsel. Others in the group include NAFI bcstg. div. Pres. Kenyon Brown and N.Y. banker Joseph A. Thomas. O’Bryan, Browm and Thomas in particular are old baseball hands, having had interests in the Detroit Tigers (Vol. 14:14 plO).
James A. Schulke, Paramount Television Productions vp & mgr. of Paramount-owned KTLA Los Angeles, has resigned, effective Jan. 1. He told us he’d made the move to avoid “conflict of interests” in negotiating on behalf of a syndicate of broadcasters & financiers to buy KTLA’s Sunset Studios for an estimated $10 million. Schulke said current negotiations “look very favorable.” If they are concluded successfully, he will head the new operation, which will place its emphasis on tape.
Ex-MBS Pres. Alexander L. Guterma, now under jail sentences for F. L. Jacobs Co. stock operations & for failure to register as a foreign agent (Vol. 16:45 p8), has been indicted again. A U.S. District Court grand jury in N.Y. charged Guterma & 12 other defendants w’ith fraud in connection wdth 1955-56 sales of stock of Western Financial Corp., Diversified Financial Corp. of America and Consolidated American Industries Inc.
Harold E. Fellows scholarship for graduate studies in broadcasting, financed by the Bcstg. Executives Club of New England, has been announced by Boston U. Applications for the $500 scholarship honoring the late NAB pres, should be submitted by March 1 to Dean Melvin Brodshaug, School of Public Relations & Communications, 640 Commonwealth Ave., Boston.
Edward P. Whitney, NCTA exec, dir., is understood to be resigning as of Feb. 15 to become national sales mgr. of Ameco, Phoenix CATV & closed-circuit equipment manufacturer. Ameco is a div. of Antennavision Inc., headed by Brace Merrill, which operates several CATV systems and which recently bought KIVA (Ch. 11) Yuma.
Rare white tigress from India has been presented to the National Zoological Park in Washington by Metropolitan Bcstg. Corp. Pres. John W. Kluge as “a gift to the children of America.” Valued at $10,000 and named “Mahani Rewa” (“Enchantress of Rewa”), the 200-lb. beast was accepted for the zoo by President Eisenhower in much-photographed ceremonies Dec. 5 on the White House lawn. Metropolitan underwrote the purchase of the tigress from the Maharajah of Rewa and paid the expense of transporting it by plane.