Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr - June 1951)

m f rigkt l So plai plan, the station would move to Channel 5 (76-82 mc). Its RCA transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill, a mile and a half by direct line of sight from Rochester Radio City. Antenna height is 497 ft. above average terrain, which the station says permits a strong signal over all parts of metropolitan Rochester and outlying areas. How well this signal has been received both as a commercial and public service operation in the homes of Rochesterians is attested by the estimated count of television receivers. When WHAM-TV made its debut, there were some 1,200 sets in the area. As of May 1, the Electrical Assn. estimated 81,417 sets or approximately 37% saturation of a potential 217,000 homes in the coverage area. m sTarionLj WHAM at, ml i profe: 9] Mannini ta iawlj : sfoij W iOTl|i Dg sti y art. rrombail: >osed in iargeji , seat" rw TTSI! Und SEEBACH NAMED i job. :r '". (0 loch m Ne" rrorice itpmH ill! By ATS Nominating Group JULES SEEBACH, program vice president of WOR AM FM TV New York, has been chosen as candidate for president of the American Television Society for the 1951-52 season by the ATS nominating committee, normally tantamount to election. Other officially proposed officers for the coming year are: Warren Caro, executive secretary, Theatre Guild, vice president; Claude Barrere, program representative, secretary; Arch Braunfeld, accountant, treasurer. For the board of directors the committee proposed: F. Ralph MacFarland, division commercial manager, AT&T; Glenn Gundell, director of advertising, National Dairy Products Corp.; Carl Haverlin, president, BMI; Eugene Katz, executive president, The Katz Agency; George Shupert, vice president, Paramount TV Productions; Chris J. Witting, general manager, DuMont TV Network; Jay Bonafield, executive vice president, RKO Radio Pathe; John Fox, president, Special Purpose Films; N. C. Rorabaugh, president, N. C. Rorabaugh Co.; Caroline Burke, NBC-TV producer; Sig Mickelson, director of public affairs, CBS. Election will be held June 15 with induction of the new officers and board members at a luncheon meeting June 18. ATLAS FILM CORPORATION ESTABLISHED 1913 CREATORS and PRODUCERS of TELEVISION COMMERCIALS 1111 SOUTH BOULEVARD Oak Park, Illinois CHICAGO: AUSTIN 7-B6ZO DAGMAR SUIT NBC-TV Star Is Sued FORMAL SUIT for damages against Dagmar (Jennie Lewis), of NBC-TV's Broadway Open House, begun in Chicago by Dagmar Blair, a burlesque queen, cannot be completed until the TV Dagmar visits Chicago and can be presented with a court summons. This is expected to be within the next few weeks, when she is scheduled to make a personal appearance at the Chicago Theatre. Miss Blair brought suit in Chicago Superior Court for $50,000. The owner of the Rialto Theatre, Harold Minsky, also is suing for an additional $25,000. Miss Blahcharges the television star has no right to the name, as she was not born with it and was given it by Jerry Lester, Broadway Open House comedian, whom Miss Blair described as a "friend." Dagmar Blair says she was born with Dagmar as her given name, and that both her mother and grandmother used it when appearing in vaudeville. She charges Miss Lewis was given the name Dagmar by Jerry Lester because of her "slight resemblance" to the burlesque dancer. The latter, however, charges the "dynamic medium of television" raised Jennie Lewis to stardom overnight and has caused the dancer "great confusion, embarrassment and loss of bookings." Mr. Minsky, who employed Dagmar the dancer in Chicago recently, is suing on the claim that attendance is affected adversely by public confusion. Miss Blair, described as a standard show business attraction, has appeared in night clubs, vaudeville and burlesque throughout the country. She claims the name Dagmar on a marquee "keeps the customers away" because they think she is the TV personality, "who is not as pretty or talented." SDG OFFICERS De Lacy Heads TV Council PHILLIPE DE LACY, KTTV (TV) Los Angeles director, was elected national president of the Television Council of the Screen Directors Guild of America at its annual meeting in Hollywood. George Cahan, KECA-TV Los Angeles director, was made first vice president, with Robert S. Finkel, KECA-TV director, elected second vice president. Elected secretary was George Giroux, assistant director, KTTV (TV) Los Angeles, with Arthur Thompson, KECA-TV assistant director, named treasurer. Messrs. De Lacy and Cahan automatically become members of SDG's national board of directors, representing TV. Elected to the council's board of directors were Joe Agnello, Robert Breckner, Bruce Saterlee, James S. Yurgaites, KTTV; Philip Booth, KECA-TV; Gordon Minter, KTLA (TV) Los Angeles; Seymour Berns, J. Walter Thompson Co. CHICAGO National Bank was host to its five-a-week show, Austin Kiplinger's News, when new bank quarters opened. L to r: G. J. Schnur, J. R. Pershall Agency; Chuck Phillips, stn. dir.; Mr. Kiplinger, Robert D. Mathias, bank pres., and Donald W. Krause, bank advertising mgr. BARRY BINGHAM (I), pres., WHAS Inc., Louisville, and Victor A. Sholis, vice president and director, WHASAM-TV, taste first birthday anniversary cake of WHAS-TV. Station marked milestone in March. N. W. Ayer & Son, marking 10th year in production of TV commercials, opened exhibit in Philadelphia. L to r: Donald R. Jones, motion picture expert; Clarence L. Jordan, exec, v. p., and Norman Tate, TV art dir. DON BILLSTONE (I), McCann-Erickson acct. exec; Barbara Britton, film star, and A. A. Dreyspool, Wamsutta Mills' v. p., chat at rehearsal for firm's Easter Parade over CBS-TV. PLANNING for 10th annual NBC-Northwestern U. Summer Radio-TV Institute in Chicago are Arthur Jacobson, NBC Chicago TV pgm. mgr.; Homer Heck, NBC Chicago radio pgm. prod, mgr.; Miss Judith Waller, NBC Chicago dir. of public affairs and education, and Donley Feddersen, chairman of radio-TV dept. at Northwestern's school of speech. Telecasting • BROADCASTING