Broadcasting (Jan - Mar 1949)

BILL BRENNAN Named to New CBS Post BILL BRENNAN, sales service manager of CBS Hollywood, has ■ been named head of transcontinental sales on Pacific Coast. He replaces Frank Oxarart, resigned [Broadcasting, March 7] . In making this announcement, D. W. Thornburgh, western vice j president, said I that no appointment to sales service post will be made at present. Mr. Brennan has served as sales 'j, service manager since November I 1948 and previously had been an •: assistant producer with the net. work. He first joined CBS in 1946 ' as continuity editor. He is a graduate of use and served with the Coast Guard for three years during the war. Mr. Brennan PROETZ AWARD Five Judges Are Announced JUDGES for the fifth annual Erma Proetz Award, sponsored by the Women's Advertising Club of St. Louis, have been announced by Mrs. Elmer C. McCaddon, chairman. Awards will be made May 13 at a dinner in conjunction with the St. Louis Exhibit of Advertising at Stix, Baer & Fuller, St. Louis. The five judges are: Frederick W. Boulton, vice president, J. Walter Thompson Co.; Leo Burnett, president, Leo Burnett Co; Wilbur Smart, vice president and art director, D'Arcy Advertising Co.; E. F. Hascall Jr., vice president, Henri, Hurst & McDonald, and Budd Gore, advertising manager, Marshall Field & Co. Awards, consisting of |100 each for the first three winners, are to be given for the most outstanding creative advertising work in art, research, radio, copy, television, or other fields, produced by women fi'om March 31, 1948, to April 1, 1949. Competition is open to any woman in the U. S., Canada, Mexico or Cuba. Deadline for the contest is April 10. Inquires should be addressed to Mrs. McCaddon, 3510 Olive St., St. Louis. CAPT. BOB KEIM, member of Air Force radio staff since August 1945, has been appointed acting chief of radio-TV branch of Air Force Directorate of Public Relations. He has been assigned this position during convalscence of COL. HOWARD L. NUSSBAUM, who was seriously injured in a plane crash in January [Broadcasting, Jan. 31, Feb. 28], Capt. Keim had been Col. Nussbaum's assistant for past six months. GEORGE W. SLADE has resigned as assistant director of the Lowell Institute cooperative broadcasting council, Boston. Mr. Slade plans to fulfill the requirements for a graduate degree at Boston U. in June on television and education. Equipment TELEVISION ASSOCIATES INC., Chicago, has announced its new T. A. Continuous Film Reel. Reel is metal case 6 by 7 inches housing a device which permits continuous projection of any 16mm film from 3 feet to 125 feet when spliced into a continuous loop. There is no rewinding. EMERSON RADIO & Phonograph Corp., New York, and its subsidiaries, have reported consolidated net profit, after taxes, of $808,846.06 for the 13-week period ended Jan. 29, 1949, equal to $1.01 per share on 800,000 shares outstanding. PATT TO WCBS Leaves WMGM After 1 0 Years ROBERT PATT, for the past 10 years director of advertising and sales promotion at WMGM New York, has been appointed director of advertising and sales promotion for WCBS New York, G. Richard Swift announced last Wednesday. Mr. Patt replaces Jules Dundes who has resigned to become director of sales and sales promotion at K Q W San Francisco [Broadcasting, March 14]. Before joining WMGM, Mr. Patt was sales promotion manager for Free & Peters Inc., New York, and assistant radio director for Campbell-Ewald Co., Detroit. CURRENT TRENDS and highlights of agriculture are being discussed the last Monday of each month by members of the Prairie Farmer-WLS Chicago staff as part of a comprehensive study. THt SMli Tf LECBAM STaTIOV AM FM TV raCE A PETBn.S, Inc.. ■filled -dtti BILL BACK, chief of test division of Schwerin Research Corp., New York, is the father of a girl, Patricia Ann. RCA Tube Dept., Harrison, N. J., announces new Regulated Power Supply, WP-23A. Of particular importance to designers and manufacturers of electronic circuits and devices, it supplies a DC voltage continuously adjustable from 0 to 300 volts and remains constant regardless of line-voltage fluctuations and varying load currents encountered in development work. Television FLAMINGO FILMS, which will produce and distribute films for television and produce live TV shows, has been formed with offices at 538 Fifth Ave., New York. Officers of new firm include; JOSEPH HARRIS, former chairman of Realart Pictures, New York, chairman; JAMES HARRIS, president; SY WEINTRAUB, vice president in charge of television, and DAVID WOLPER, secretarytreasurer. SANDY HOWARD PRODUCTIONS, firm for production of films for television, has been organized by SANDY HOWARD, former writer, associate and producer-director at United Productions Inc. RONALD L. BISCOW, former vice president in charge of sales for World Enterprise Film Studios, Hollywood, is sales manager of firm. Offices are at 234 W. 44th St., New York. HENRY MORLEY, Dynamic Films, New York, executive, has been appointed co-chairman of National Television Film Council production committee. Mr. Morley will handle activities of the committee during illness of JACK GLENN, committee chairman and president of the Screen Directors Guild. AGENCIES* ADVERTISERS « STATIONS DESIGNED FOR PLANNING • This attractive three color quality map shows AM-TV stations in United States, its possessions, and Canada— by city, county, state, territory, province . . . time zones. O You'll use these maps all year round to demonstrate coverage . . . plot netv/ork and national spot campaigns . . . for translating complex problems into simplified sales pictures. 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