Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan - Mar 1951)

■ front office FRED S. HEYWOOD appointed sales promotion manager WCCO Minneapolis-St. Paul, succeeding Tony Moe [Broadcasting • Telecasting, Jan. 15]. He was manager of advertising, promotion and publicity WBAL-AM-TV Baltimore, and ^ also directed news and special events operations for WNBC New York. H. G. FEARNHEAD, vice president and treasurer Yakima Broadcasting Co., Washington, named general manager and treasurer KYA San Francisco, replacing GIL PALTRIDGE, resigned. ROBERT BALFOUR named vice president in cnarge of sales promotion Forjoe & Co., station representative, coincident with return from special assignment as lieutenant with U. S. Pacific Fleet. WILLIAM R. WYATT, general manager Forjoe Chicago office appointed vice president in charge of sales for Midwest Division. ELAINE SKINNER, Mr. Heywood formerly with Paul H. Raymer Co., Joseph Katz Co. and Ruthrauff &] Ryan, named office manager Forjoe's Chicago Midwest Division. PHILLIP WATERS, account executive KXL Portland, Ore., namec manager KOOS Bay, Ore., replacing HAL SHADE [Broadcasting • Telecasting, Jan. 29]. PAUL MULVIHILL, Toronto, and RADIO TIMES SALES, Montreal, will represent CKTB St. Catherines, effective April 1. JIM SZABO, WWRL Woodside, N. Y., to sales staff Adam J. Young Jr. Inc., N. Y. ROBERT C. WIEGAND appointed to sales staff WJMO Cleveland. Mr. Waters GEORGE BAKER, general manager Cincinnati division Hugh-Peters Inc., appointed administrative assistant in charge of hard goods sales WLWT (TV) Cincinnati. CHARLES L. SCOFIELD, station manager, and JAMES CARSON, com-r| mercial manager KRJF Miles City, Mont., to reopen and operate KWBM| Williston, N. D., as partners. THE BOLLING Co. Inc., N. Y., appointed national representative fori KXLW St. Louis. © © SAN FRANCISCO © LOS ANGELES CHICAGO ©' DETROIT NEW YORK ST. LOUIS © CHARLOTTE O © MEMPHIS Q ATLANTA O © DALLAS Jjf Branham offices representing Radio and Television Stations THE BRANHAM COMPANY SALES PROJECT NBC Sets Meeting Tour SCHEDULE of meetings in which NBC officials will show the neta work's new radio sales presentation to its affiliates throughout the country was announced last week. The sales presentation was first shown to members of NBC's Stations Planning and Advisory Committee in mid-February, and is being taken on the road at the committee's request [Broadcasting • Telecasting, Feb. 19]. Five showings are scheduled, all in March, starting Thursday and Friday at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, where representatives of 32 stations are expected to be on hand. Other showings: Schedule March 13, Shamrock Hotel, Houston, 20 stations; March 15, Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, 37 stations; March 21, Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, 35 stations; and March 23, Drake Hotel, Chicago, 37 stations. NBC officials making the four week tour will be Charles R. Denny, executive vice president; Carleton D. Smith, vice president in charge of station relations, and Norman E. Cash, director of radio station relations. r Feature (Continued from page 18) the Cal Crim Detective Bureau Inc., to advise grocers on how to guard against dishonest customers, employes and check utterers. Further impetus is given WSAI advertisers through a display of sponsors' products in a modern shelving plan. Refreshments are served — usually sponsors' products. WSAI talent provides entertainment. Page 48 • March 5, 1951 BROADCASTING • Telecastin