Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr - June 1951)

JULIUS SCHEPPS, director in various Dallas companies, elected vice president of Variety Broadcasting Co., operator of KIXL Dallas. KEN HILDEBRANDT, account executive KYA San Francisco, promoted to sales manager. MARY LOU STONE to sales staff WCOG Greensboro. fteti&naLi • • • GENE WILKEY, general manager WGCO Minneapolis, elected to board of directors Advertising Club of Minneapolis. . . . DONALD NORMAN, sales manager, and RICHARD EISIMINGER, advertising and promotion manager KNBH (TV) Hollywood, in New York for conferences with NBC-TV executives on fall plans. They also will confer with agencies in that city, Cleveland and Chicago before returning to Hollywood June 25. . . . ROBERT H. TETER, sales manager KYW Philadelphia, received outstanding individual acting award from Temple's Community Theatre Festival for his role as Elwood P. Dowd in "Harvey." LESLIE C. JOHNSON, general manager WHBF-AM-TV Rock Island, 111., nominated for reappointment to board of aeronautical advisors in Illinois Dept. of Aeronautics. . . . MACK ARNETTE, local time salesman WWNC Asheville, N. C, took first place in Asheville Citizen-Times golf tournament. BOB DUMM, vice president and general manager Lincoln Dellar stations (KXOA Sacramento, KXOB Stockton, KXOC Chico and KBD Santa Barbara), appointed by GRANTLAND RICE, chairman of National Sports Committee for United Cerebral Palsy, as member of California committee. . . . STANLEY BELL, salesman WRC Washington, elected treasurer Washington Advertising Club. Mr. Sarnoff NEW NBC V.P. Robert Sarnoff Elected ELECTION of Robert W. Sarnoff, director of NBC unit productions in the NBC television network, as a vice president of NBC was announced last week. Mr. Sarnoff currently is responm^iL^^^^ sible for several special production units in connection with NBCT V's Comedy Hour, Four Star Revue, Saturday Night Revue, and Kate Smith Hour, and also is in charge of a special unit in the production of a TV history of the Navy beingmade in cooperation with the Navy Dept. NBC President Joseph H. McConnell announced Mr. Sarnoff's election as a vice president, which occurred at a June 1 board meeting. Mr. Sarnoff, son of RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff, joined NBC-TV as an account executive in January 1948, and subsequently became assistant to the national program director, production manager for NBC-TV, and manager of program sales before being named director of NBC unit productions last Jan. 22. He formerly was assistant to the publisher of Look magazine and before that was with the D e s Moines Register & Tribune in a similar capacity. He was in the Navy for 3% years as a lieutenant, and earlier served in the office of Gen. William Donovan, Coordinator of Information, Washington, D. C. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from Harvard College. WOODS NAMED Heads Fresh Air Fund MARK WOODS, ABC board vice chairman, will head a committee of TV and advertising executives formed to coordinate radio-TV phases of the New York Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund's 75thyear campaign this summer. Other committee members for the fund, which seeks $350,000 to provide country vacations for 10,000 underprivileged New York City youngsters, include: Niles Trammell, NBC board chairman; Frank White, MBS president; Lawrence W. Lowman, CBS vice president; Chris Witting, DuMont Television Network general manager; Bertram Lebhar, WMGM New York director; Nathan Straus, WMCA New York president; Stanley Resor, J. Walter Thompson Co. president; Bruce Barton, board chairman of BBDO; Thomas D'Arcy Brophy, board chairman of Kenyon & Eckhardt, and Harrison Atwood, McCannErickson executive committee chair As Good As His Tools! 99 YOU will find the best in recording apparati comes from the Reeves Soundcraft Laboratories. Magnetic tape with ten distinct features that contribute to its higher efficiency and fidelity; an assortment of recording discs to answer every requirement — a sensational line backed by the greater integrity and experience of the Reeves name, for twenty years a foremost manufacturer of recording and electronics accessories. Soundcraft tape is made in all types and lengths to accommodate all tape recorders. Soundcraft recording discs available in a variety of sizes, single and double face. REEVES— "20 YEARS WITH SOUND RECORDING MEDIA" Export— Reeves Equipment Corp., 10 East 52nd St., New York 22, N. Y. BROADCASTING • Telecasting June 11, 1951 • Page 55