Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan - Mar 1951)

)AN HYDRICK Jr. appointed manager WDYK Cumberland, Md. ILLARD BOTLER, WFTL Ft. Lauderdale, to sales staff WEAT Lake iVorth, Fla. ^WINSTON S. DUSTIN, vice president in charge of sales WNOE New {Orleans, named to similar position KNOE Monroe, both owned by James Noe. AMES D. BAILEY, sales representative KTRF Thief River Falls, Minn., to WFHR Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., in same capacity. ACK MOHLER, account executive WOR New York, to active duty with ^jlArmy military intelligence as captain. WMC IS JOHN D. VELLER and BEN McKINNON appointed to local sales depart ment WBT-AM-FM and WBTV (TV) Charlotte. Mr. Veller was with WMRC Greenville, S. C, and Mr. McKinnon has worked in public relations field. PAUL GODT appointed to sales and advertising staff WIBV Belleville, 111. Was with KARK Little Rock. Mr. Veller WILLIAM SCHNAUDT, account executive WPTR Albany, N. Y., appointed local sales manager. GEORGE SUTHERLAND, sales manager, resigns. JOHN C. GILMORE named ■;jM account executive for station. A«Mfi/j • • • WILLIAM F. LUCEY, business manager Lawrence Eagle -Tribune and WLAW Lawrence, Mass., honored by friends and business associates in recognition of his appointment by Pope Pius XII as member of the " Assn. of Master Knights of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta • [Broadcasting • Telecasting, Feb. 19]. ... W. J. WARREN, assistant to president WITH Baltimore, father of boy. . . . JOHN D. SCHEUER Jr., operation assistant to general manager WFIL Philadelphia, will speak on "Radio and Television as Educational Media" at Hospital Standardization Conference of American College of Surgeons today (Monday), at Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia. . . . ERNEST L. SPENCER, president and general manager KVOE Santa Ana, Calif., 1 elected to board of directors Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce. . . . PAUL R. BARTLETT, president and general manager KFRE Fresno and secretary-treasurer California State Radio & Television Broadcasters' Assn., elected chairman Fresno Convention & Tourist Bureau. BENEDICT GIMBEL Jr., president WIP Philadelphia, named radio-TV chairman for Philadelphia's 24th Annual Educational Week for the Blind. ' Serving with Mr. Gimbel are: WILLIAM BANKS, WHAT; JOSEPH I CONNELLY, WCAU-AM-TV; DOUGLAS HIBBS, WTEL; JOHN J. | KELLY, WPTZ (TV); JULES RIND, WPEN; JOHN SCHEURER, WFIL-AM-TV; PATRICK J. STANTON, WJMJ; FRANKLIN TOOKE, KYW, and RUPE WERLING, WIBG. . . . MAX LEON, owner WDAS Philadelphia, elected to board of directors Philadelphia Opera Co. . . . RALPH HANSEN, account executive KING Seattle, appointed general chairman Seattle Advertising and Sales Club's annual awards committee "for the best locally produced advertising". . . . DANIEL W. KOPS, vice president and general manager WAVZ New | Haven, elected to board of directors of Quinnipiac Council, Boy Scouts of America. . . . JACK KENT COOKE, owner CKEY Toronto, chosen one of 10 best dressed men in Canada by directors of Canadian Men's Apparel Fair. JOHN F. NOONE, WPIX (TV) New York, serving as general chairman of advertising division, Cardinal's Committee of the Laity, in connection ' with New York Catholic Charities' 1951 fund appeal, which started last week. BERNARD C. DUFFY, BBDO, and JOHN C. KELLY, KellyNason Inc., are general vice chairmen. THOMAS H. SHANLEY, Warwick & Legler, is advertising agencies chairman. KARL O. WYLER, vice president-general manager KTSM El Paso, elected president of 1951-52 Southwestern Sun Carnival. . . . ART HARRE, general manager WJJD Chicago, named to public relations committee of American Cancer Society, Illinois division. BROADCASTING • Telecasting For over twenty-seven years, Radio Station WMC in Memphis has kept its programs attuned to the wants and needs of its market. This market awareness, this realization of the program preferences of Memphis and Mid-Southern listeners, has made WMC a favorite among the 800,000 radio homes in the Memphis market area. The Gene Steele Trio Another successful example of WMC's Memphis MarketMindedness! Gene Steele, durng the past thirteen consecutive years, has broadcast more than 3,380 programs for the same sponsor, Malone & Hyde, Incorporated, wholesale grocers. Five times a week, two hundred and sixty times a year, his program gets a fine reception in thousands of Mid-South homes. and here's what the sponsor thinks of it! "We believe Gene Steele is the most consistently popular local live radio personality now broadcasting in Memphis. Year in, and year out, Gene has sold the quality foods which we distribute. His record speaks for itself." Signed J. R. Hyde. Malone & Hyde Memphis, Tennessee NBC 5000 WATTS -790 MEMPHIS W M C F 260 KW Simultaneously Duplicating AM Schedule WMC First TV station in Memphis and the Mid-South National Representatives, The Branham Company Owned and Operated by The Commercial Appeal March 5, 1951 Page 49