Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)

VOL. 16: No. 51 11 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, Ediforial Director Business Manager HAROLD B. CLEMENKO, Managing Editor DAVID LACHENBRUCH, Associate Editor JAMES B. DELEHANTY, HAROLD RUSTEN, Associate Editor Asst. Business Mgr. PAUL STONE WASHINGTON BUREAU Wyatt Building Washington 5, D.C. Sterling 3-1755 ALBERT WARREN, Chief WILBUR H. BALDINGER WM. J. McMAHON Jr. AAARTIN CODEL Associate Publisher NEW YORK BUREAU 625 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y. Plazo 2-0195 CHARLES SINCLAIR, Chief WEST COAST BUREAU 6362 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood 28, Cal. Hollywood 5-5210 DAVID KAUFMAN TELEVISION DIGEST. Published Mondays. Subscription $75 annually. For group rates & other subscription services, write Business Office. TELEVISION FACTBOOK TV & AM-FM ADDENDA AM-FM DIRECTORY Published March & Sept. Published Saturdays Published in January Copyright 1960, by Triangle Publications, Inc. Personals: Terry Lee promoted from vp-managing dir., WAGA-TV Atlanta, to TV regional vp, Storer Bcstg. Co. . . . Barry MacDonald named dir. CBC corporate affairs policy section. Bob King, ex-KSWO-TV Lawton, Okla., appointed vpgen. mgr., WTVP Decatur, 111. . . . Mrs. Edward Harvey Long named vp-treas., Huntington Publishing Co. (WSAZTV & WSAZ Huntington-Charleston, W.Va.) . . . Bess Myerson, I’ve Got a Secret panelist and Ajax TV commercials saleswoman, appointed sales-promotion dir., M. C. Schrank Co. (pajama manufacturer). She will continue her TV activities . . . Reg Miller, national sales mgr., KOMOTV Seattle, elected a vp. World Affairs Council of Seattle . . . Ervin T. Melton, news dir., WBTV Charlotte, N.C., named pres., Carolinas Press Photographers Assn. Donald G. McGlathery appointed sales mgr. & operating head of the new Nielsen Media Service, which will measure TV & magazine audiences in the same national panel for direct comparison of the 2 media (Vol. 16:39 pl2) . . . Mrs. A. Scott Bullitt, pres, of the Crown Stations (KING-TV & KING Seattle, KGW-TV & KGW Portland, KREM-TV & KREM Spokane) named one of the “10 Outstanding Citizens of Puget Sound” for 1960 by The Argus, Northwestern journal . . . Mel Pierce, ex-KHJ-TV Los Angeles, named mdsg. dir., KTLA Los Angeles. Obituary Ernest D. Herider, 53, engineer in FCC’s Frequency Allocation & Treaty div., died in Washington Dec. 14 of a massive cerebral hemorrhage; Native of Indianapolis, he had worked for several stations before joining the Commission as a radio-monitoring officer in Lexington, Ky. in 1940. He transferred to the Frequency Allocation & Treaty div. in 1956 after handling broadcast matters — AM, TV, renewals & transfers. His wife survives. Ralph Berger, 56, head of Desilu Productions art dept., died of a heart attack in Hollywood Dec. 12. His art direction on Desilu’s The Untouchables won an Emmy last spring. His wife and 2 sons survive. John Charles 'I’honias, 69, ])opular ladio, opera and concert-stage baritone, died Dec. 13 of cancer at his home in Apple Valley, Cal. For a time he managed radio KAVR Apple Valley, Cab He is survived by his wife. Grants totaling $5,500 have been made by the CBS Foundation to 6 privately supported colleges & universities from which CBS women employes have graduated. Begun in 1956, the plan grants the employes’ college $1,000 after 15 years of CBS service and $500 after each additional 5 years. Latest grants: $1,500 given to Columbia U. on behalf of May M. Dowell, CBS News special projects mgr.; $1,000 to Bryn Mawr, Long Island U., and Russell Sage for Alice Weel, TV news writer, Sherley Abrams, special projects librarian, and Winifred Williams, secy, to CBS Pres. Dr. Frank Stanton. Conn. College for Women and Eastern Nazarene College received $500 on behalf of Emma Schaumann, Columbia Records accounts supervisor, and Olive Tracy, CBS radio graphics presentation specialist. Alexander Guterma’s legal saga continued last week, with 3 alleged business associates of the imprisoned financier pleading innocent to the Federal Court charge of violating the anti-fraud & registration provisions of the 1933 Securities Act. Involved in the govt.’s running affair with Guterma (Vol. 16:30 p9 et seq.) were Paul M. Hughes, asst, to the pres, of Lionel Corp., John Ehrlich and Rolando J. Pepe. The govt, is seeking to prove, on the basis of an indictment by a federal grand jury, that Guterma and his associates fraudulently sold 350,000 shares of Western Financial Corp. common (now bankrupt). Guterma himself, now under sentence in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, has already pleaded innocent to the same charge. Jan. 16 has been set as the date for hearings on motions in the case. Fred Knorr, Mich, radio station opei-ator & part owner of the Detroit Tigers, was reported recovering well from 2nd & 3rd degree burns suffered Dec. 9 when he fell into a bathtub of scalding water in a Ft. Lauderdale hotel while there on business. His wife said that he hit his head, was knocked unconscious, remained in the tub until a friend found him there. Knorr is 47, owns WKMH Dearborn, WKHM Jackson, WSAM Saginaw, WKMF Flint, part of WELL Battle Creek. Harold C. Stuart, pres. & 12% owner of KVOO-TV Tulsa, and 1948-51 Asst. Air Secy, under Stuart Symington, is reportedly set to be named Secretary of the Air Force. Technology Jet-powered underwater TV camera that can be operated remotely to depths of 300 feet has been developed by Edwin A. Link, inventor & producer of the famed World War II Link air trainer, and 2 associates. The deep-sea TV camera, named “The Shark,” has been assigned patent 2,963,543. It is granted to Link and co-investors Gunne Lowkrantz & Karl A. Kail, long-time associates in Link Aviation Inc., now a div. of General Precision. The underwater scenes recorded by the camera are transmitted by cable to a TV set aboard ship for direct viewing or taping. Bi-directional TV distribution system which allows transmission of video signals in 2 directions sumultaneously over the same cable network has been announced by RCA, which termed it “a major advance in the distribution of ETV signals to classrooms.” Explained consumer-products service div. vp L. G. Borgeson: “This represents a basic advantage over conventional distribution systems since it permits closed-circuit material to be introduced into the system from any classroom, while enabling reception of off-the-air TV signals. This means that one part of a school can receive closed-circuit programming at the game time another part is receiving off-the-air telecasts.”