Broadcasting (Jan - Mar 1949)

CARL OWEN, member of staff for past eig-ht years, has been appointed assistant commercial manager of the WCAU Philadelphia stations. ALEX ROSENMAN, WCAU and WCAU-TV commercial manager, said that Mr. Owen will assist in administrative matters of AM and TV, while JAMES F. COYLE, assistant commercial manager since 1943, will concentrate his activities in sales of both media. Mr. Owen, in the radio field for over 26 years, was formerly program director of KGA Spokane and KUJ Walla Walla, Wash., and served in an executive capacity with WXYZ Detroit and the Michigan State Network. JOHN BLAIR & Co. has been appointed exclusive national representative for KWFT Wichita Falls, Tex., and KEPO El Paso, effective April 1. JANET A. MURPHY has joined Robert Meeker Assoc., station representative, as New York office manager. Miss Murphy was formerly administrative assistant to national sales manager of Fort Industry Co. EDWARD L. TERRY, formerly general manager of KSGN Sanger, Calif., has joined KSBW Salinas, Calif., as business manager. CKTS Sherbrooke, Que., has appointed J. A. Hardy & Co., Montreal and Toronto, as its Canadian representative. JOHN B. SOELL, former WJZ New York and KXOK St. Louis account executive, has joined WMCA New York, in same capacity. KEITH TYE, formerly with sales department of KTEM Temple, Tex., has been named assistant sales manager of KVER Albuquerque, N. M. JAMES H. Mcknight, formerly manager of WKOB North Adams, Mass., has been appointed commercial manager of WMAW Milwaukee, Wis. WILLIAM T. O'CONNOR has joined WNAV AM & FM Annapolis, Md., as sales manager. BILL GRANFIELD, formerly of KYA San Francisco, and JERRY DeSAXE, formerly of Century Display, Chicago, are new salesmen with KLX Oakland, Calif. BILL HUNEFELD, of KLX Oakland sales staff has been named head of station's newly established San Francisco sales office. New office is located in Monadnock Bldg. VINCENT FRANCIS, sales manager of KGO and ABC San Francisco, is the father of a boy. OLLIE CARPENTER, sales manager at WPTF Raleigh, is in Rex Hospital following a heart seizure. GEORGE CRUMBLY, traffic manager of WSB Atlanta, and LEE MORRIS, music librarian, have received their A. B. degrees from Emory U. Dorothy Byrne Akers MRS. DOROTHY BYRNE AKERS, 31, secretary to H. Leslie Atlass, general manager of WBBM Chicago and vice president in charge of the CBS Central Division, died last Monday from a heart attack. She had worked at WBBM-CBS 12 years. Survivors include her husband, Arthur; mother, Mrs. Muriel Byrne, and sister, Rosemary. SHELDON PETERSON (r), news and special events director for KLZ Denver, accepts an "award of merit" from Walden E. Sweet of the Denver Press Club. Mr. Peterson won press club recognition for "outstanding radio newscast" of year, a telephonic recording relative to a murder case. NABET LOSES Petition Denied at WPTF EFFORTS of the National Assn. of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians to have turntable operators included as a bargaining unit with engineers and technicians at WPTF Raleigh, N. C, have failed. The National Labor Relations Board last Thursday vacated an order it issued Dec. 24, 1948, staying an election to determine whether the engineers and technicians wished to be represented by NABET. The stay order had been issued, on request of NABET, after NLRB on Dec. 15, 1948, directed that such an election be held and excluded turntable operators from the bargaining unit. NLRB's latest order, besides reversing the Dec. 24 action, denies NABET's petition for reconsideration of the Dec. 15 order and directs that the election be held within 30 days. NLRB ruled that the turntable operators at WPTF "do not have sufficient interests in common with the radio engineers and technicians to be included with them in a single bargaining unit." The NLRB order pointed out that the turntable operators do not perform any technical or engineering duties, that they are included in WPTF's program department ROBERT J. O'CONNOR, news writer and editor at WOR New York, has been appointed director of sports for WOR-TV, scheduled to go on the air this summer on Channel 9. JACK VAN COEVERING, editor and commentator on Woods and Waters on WXYZ-TV Detroit, has been awarded an honorary life membership in the Izaak Walton League for his work in calling attention to pollution of Michigan's lakes and streams. His pictures of wild life are telecast on the Wednesday evening program. Mr. Van Coevering is wild life editor of the Detroit Free Press. EDWIN H. ADAMS, director of radio for U. of Washington, has been appointed chairman of radio and press committee for newly-formed Seattle chapter of Keep Washington Green, statewide organization for prevention of forest fires. and that, in addition to operating turntables, they do other work in the department. NABET had contended that there is "functional coherence" between the turntable operators and the engineers and technicians. NABET also had argued that it has been the practice in the industry to group turntable operators with engineers for purposes of collective bargaining. But, said NLRB, "there is no evidence in the record developed at the hearing nor has the petitioner [NABET] in support of its motion for reconsideration submitted any evidence to buttress its contention that such historical practice exists in the industry . . . the record reveals that the turntable operators have been specifically excluded from the bargaining unit represented by the petitioner in the previous contracts negotiated by the petitioner with the employer [WPTF]." TWO MORE FM stations have gone on the air in eastern Canada, according to a report from Radio Branch, Dept. of Transport, Ottowa. CHNSFM Halifax is now operating with 250 w on 96.1 mc, and CJCB-FM Sydney with 250 w on 94.9 mc. FOR COVERAGE —Over a million people in 79 counties of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. — 3V2 times more people than any other station in this market. —A $557,206,000 retail sales area. (•prawitad by H>llingb>ry BROADCASTING • Telecasting