Broadcasting (Oct - Dec 1949)

KPRC HOUSTOH in hooper « Inthesouth'sS first market To sell Houston and the great Gulf Coast area Buy KPRC FIRST in Everything that Counts! RALPH SAWYERS, former commercial manager of KYW Philadelphia, returns to industry as account executive for WMBM Miami Beach, Fla., after serving as radiotelegraph officer on merchant ships and in the Navy. PETER THOMAS, former KJR Seattle announcer, is now commercial manager for KENI Anchorage, Alaska. DEAN SHAFFNER, with Biow Co. as radio and television research director for past five years, joins sales presentations department of ABC as writer. Previously he had been with C. E. Hooper Inc. and Crossley Inc. ADAM J. YOUNG Jr. Inc., New York, appointed national representative for KLEE Houston. Firm has been representing KLEE-TV Houston since January of this year. WAYNE KEARL, news editor of KSL Salt Lake City for past three years, named account executive for KSLAM-TV, ROBERT B. DONOVAN, former sales promotion manager of WNAX Yankton, S. D., and before that assistant promotion manager for WLS Chicago, joins sales department of WNAX. MELCHOR GUZMAN Co., New York, appointed U.S. and Canadian representative by YSU-YSUA, Radio Mil Cincuenta, San Salvador, El Salvador. Appointment is effective Jan. 1, 1950. JACK ENGLAND, formerly with Armed Forces Radio Service in Munich, joins KONP Port Angeles, Wash., as time salesman and announcer. Effective Dec. 15, when he finishes his studies at U. of Washington, he will become fulltime staff member of KONP. JIM WILLIS and ARDELL GARRETSON, of sales staff of WKY Oklahoma City, join sales force of WKYTV. ALFRED W. NICHOLAS, former assistant manager of the general accounting officer of Triangle Publications Inc., joins WPIL Philadelphia staff as office manager. KVI Seattle moves its Tacoma offices to Winthrop Hotel. WNBC Food Drive WNBC New York for the third successive year set aside Thanksgiving Day for an all-day appeal for CARE by every local program and personality, Thomas B. McFadden, station manager, announced. Theme for the day was that America's plenty should be shared with Europe. Listeners were urged to pledge contributions by phone or to send checks to a special post office box number set up for the WNBC drive. Last year, listeners contributed enough to ship 11 tons of food while the year before the appeal yielded seven tons. WWBZ PROPOSAL Zoog Cleared of Complaint PROPOSED decisions have been announced by FCC to grant WWBZ Vineland, N. J., switch to fulltime operation with 1 kw on 1360 kc, directional night, and to grant new station at Pleasantville, N. J., on 1400 kw with 250 w fulltime to Pioneer Broadcasters Inc. Seaside Broadcasting Co., seeking same 1400 kc assignment at Atlantic City, received proposed denial. In both cases the Commission cleared A. Harry Zoog, part owner of WWBZ and former part owner and officer of Pioneer Broadcasters, of complaint filed by Rev. Percy B. Crawford of Philadelphia, conductor of Young People's Church of the Air, religious program aired on a number of stations. The Commission originally had approved the applicant's request to grant the WWBZ application without hearing, but the bid was redesignated for hearing after complaint by Rev. Crawford had been filed in effect charging Mr. Zoog with misappropriation of funds. FCC preferred Pioneer's application over that of Seaside on the basis of Sec. 307(b) of the Communications Act requiring equitable and efficient distribution of radio services. The decision concluded Pleasantville should receive its first AM outlet rather than add an additional station to Atlantic City, now with three stations. The decisions explained that Zoog Advertising Agency, owned by Mr. Zoog, had been retained by Rev. Crawford to place the Young People's Church of the Air and pay the various stations for the time. The decision showed that Rev. Crawford solicited funds on this program and that from 1944 to 1946 some $443,000 was spent on radio time. Rev. Crawford charged that he had forwarded this amount to Mr. Zoog but that the latter failed to disburse about $17,000 to the stations, FCC indicated. However, Mr. Zoog counter-charged that Rev. Crawford owed him some $35,000 in agency commission rebates which funds were to be used to build a station to be jointly owned by Mr. Zoog and Rev. Crawford. FCC concluded that the charges against Mr. Zoog "have not been sustained. It is apparent that there is here involved a private controversy which the Commission would not be disposed to adjudicate or attempt to settle." The WWBZ decision continued, "Accordingly, on the basis of the evidence adduced in the further hearing, . . . and in the absence of an official report of a court of competent jurisdiction evidencing a conviction of Zoog for the unlawful conversion of funds, as charged herein by Reverend Crawford, the Commission does not find A. Harry Zoog unqualified. . . ." NABET Pay Talks NABET began reopening wage negotiations Nov. 18 with RCA Victor Div. for more than 100 recording engineers and operators at RCA Victor recording studios in New York. The day before, NABET began negotiations with Muzak Corp. for its recording engineers. MAX ROBY, assistant news editor for KSL Salt Lake City, and before that news editor of KFBI Wichita, Kans., appointed news editor for KSL. SHEELAH CARTER, formerly commentator on Mutual and ABC, begins seven-day-a-week news and commentary program on KJR Seattle. CHET RANDOLPH, farm director of KGLO Mason City, Iowa, will narrate NBC-TV telecasts from International Livestock Exhibition in Chicago. Dr. E. W. ZIEBARTH, news analyst for WCCO Minneapolis, included in 1950 edition of Who's Who in the Midwest. DICK JOY, CBS Hollywood newscaster, is recovering following recent emergency appendectomy. FRANK SANDERS, newscaster and news editor of KFGO Fargo, N. D., is the father of twin daughters, Jill and Jean. ^ Page 52 • November 28, 1949 BROADCASTING • Telecasting