Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr - June 1951)

DR. ROY K. MARSHALL, currently handling The Nature of Things, NBC-TV, and previously director of Morehead Planetarium and professor of astronomy at U. of North Carolina, named educational director of WFIL-AM-TV Philadelphia. He will continue his NBC program. HARRY E. BATJM named program director WSSB Durham, N. C. BOB EVANS, program director WALD Walterboro, S. C, to WSSB as announcer. GORDON GRANNIS, assistant promotion and publicity manager KGO-AM-TV San Francisco, promoted to promotion and publicity manager. He replaces MAURY BAKER who joins BBDO, S. F.. radio and television department. Mr. Grannis DAVE KEES, technical director KPIX (TV) San Francisco, promoted to production manager. JACK SEBASTIAN appointed publicity director WCPO-TV Cincinnati. BOB PUGH, publicity director CKFH Toronto, named program director MARGARET IMRIE appointed publicity director. JOE GIRAND, WTHT Hartford, Conn., awarded plaque from Lullaby Club of Hartford for his children's program, Songs and Stories. THEY'RE FROM MILWAUKEE and THEY OUGHT TO KNOW... Renewed Six One Half Hours Weekly for Another Year with Ernie "The Whip" . . . Another Proof that WMRY Sells Goods in IS eiv Orleans' Vast Negro Market. "THE SEPIA STATION" WMRY NEW ORLEANS, LA. 600 KC John E. Pearson, Nat l Rep. THE ONE DIRECT APPROACH TO NEW ORLEANS' LARGEST MAJOR MARKET air-casters REGINA BESS, assistant promotion director and radio copywriter for Wiebolt Stores Inc., Chicago, to KCBQ San Diego as head of new promotion and merchanising department. LEA SHEPP, WNBW (TV) Washington, appointed film editor. LEE ADLER is his assistant. BILL RODDY, KNBC San Francisco announcer, returns to U.S. Maritime Service as radio operator. PHIL WALKER, KNBC relief announcer, succeeds Mr. Roddy. ROBERT C. MICHEL, announcer WSYR Syracuse, recalled to active duty in Navy. BILL SHOMETTE, program director WOAI-AM-TV San Antonio, in Mexico City last week covering meeting of International Federation of Agricultural Producers. MARJORIE PRICE, women's program director WILM Wilmington, Del., to WFIL-TV Philadelphia as "Peggy Towne" on women's program What's Cooking. MARY F. GRAHAM, CKY Winnipeg, to attend International Advertising Conference, London, England, July 7-13, as one of ten Canadian delegates. JOHN DUFFY, formerly with Progressive Broadcasting System, Hollywood, to KSFO San Francisco announcing staff. DON SIMS, producer CBC Toronto, resigns to move to Rochester, Minn., where his child is being treated at Mayo Clinic. "FOREMAN BILL" (Bill Mackintosh), disc jockey-composer, to Lincoln Dellar stations (KXOA Sacramento, KXOB Stockton, KXOC Chico and KDB Santa Barbara). NARCELLA C. KEUCHLE, pianist and actress, to WTAG Worcester, Mass., as special program assistant. NANCY GRAHAM, formerly of CJOR Toronto and freelance at Toronto, to announce staff of CFCF Montreal. DICK EWART, singer, signed as featured vocalist with Hoffman Hay ride on KGO-TV San Francisco. Mr. Ewart was named permanent member after winning five weeks' competition in "Sing Down" contest. DON MASON, CKEY Toronto announcer, to CKOY Ottawa. DWIGHT COOKE of CBS' People's Platform, Cross-Section USA, and You and the World, to Lisbon, Portugal, where he will broadcast series of special survey programs covering Portugal's economic and political conditions, and attend International Chamber of Commerce convention. BARBARA McKNIGHT, Santa Rosa Junior College, to KCBS San Francisco script department. WAYNE KEARL, public service editor KSL-AM-TV Salt Lake City, appointed stations' promotion manager, replacing SHERRIL W. TAYLOR, appointed sales promotion manager for KNX Los Angeles and Columbia Pacific Network. Mr. St. James PAUL KANE, WAAM (TV) Baltimore, named senior producer and studio production supervisor. ED SARROW named senior producer. KEN CALFEE promoted to director, and HARVEY JEROME and FRED WHEECEHAN become assistant directors. DICK LUSHER and ALLEN HOLMES added to camera crew KENN SMITH named staff projectionist. CLIFFORD ST. JAMES, disc jockey WVET Rochester, N. Y., and WTMA Charleston, S. C-, to KWK St. Louis as announcer. GORDON J. ALDERMAN, program manager WAGE Syracuse and radio and theatre producer, to WHEN •(TV) Syracuse as production m a nager in charge of all program functions and studio operations. PHIL WILSON, announcer-disc jockey WNOR Norfolk, Va., to WLEE Richmond as announcer-disc jockey. VIC ROWLAND, ABC publicity department, named acting head of network's Western Division publicity department during absence of JERRY ROSS, called into Air Force. BOBBIE FRANCIS replaces DARLIENE WEBER, resigned, in traffic department WIND Chicago. Miss Francis was transferred from music library. NORMAN McBAIN, CBM Montreal, and NORMAN W. EAVES, CBH Halifax, going to Korea to tape record interviews and actualities of Canadian troops in the Korean War for CBC JACK YOUNGS, commercial photographer, to WNHC-TV New Haven in promotion and merchandising department. TED MOORE, WDLB Marshfield, Wis., to KTRI Sioux City, Iowa, as sports director. NORMA SHEARER, continuity writer WCKY Cincinnati, resigns. JANICE GORDON, new to radio, to WCKY continuity department. HAZEL MARKEL, MBS women's commentator, presented U. S. Treasury Dept.'s Liberty Bell Award for ". . . . splendid service given in the promotion of U. S. defense bonds." GERALD LEWIS, WCSH Portland, Me., announcer, and Joan Steinberg j married June 6. PAT McCARRIE, "shopper" for Gim-' hel TV Shopper, WTMJ-TV Mil-' waukee, and William Manzer, married June 4. FRANK TAYLOR, WCKY Cincinnati" disc jockey, and Helen Todd of Maysville, Ky., married June 3. JEAN COLBERT, director of women's activities WTIC Hartford, and James M. Cleminshaw married. HOWARD MILLER, WIND Chicago announcer, and Barbara Spindler married May 19. BLOYCE (Blue) WRIGHT, KGO-TV San Francisco program director,^" father of girl, Martha Nell. U" x FRED GADETTE, KPIX (TV) San Francisco production staff, father of* girl, Jill. PAUL BARNETT, announcer WGCM't1 Gulfport, Miss., father of boy, Daniel1}* Andrew Ben. RALPH MANZA, comedian on Del Courtney Show, KPIX (TV) San Fran-; cisco, and independent producer, father of girl, Cvnthia. Mi STANLEY NOONAN, KCBS San Fran 01 cisco singer, father of boy, Timothy, xWallace. j.gr< RAY MITCHELL, announcer WNBW (TV) Washington, father of girl, Nancy Jean. DON OTIS, Hollywood disc m.c, father of girl. A/euri Bl Dei eeti BOB REDEEN, news director WOCAM-TV Davenport, Iowa, to International Broadcasting Div. of State Dept. (Voice of America), Washing;t\ ton. BOB FRANK, news staff WOC-ifi. AM-TV, named stations' news direc-;fw tor. JOHN WILBERT, WTTM Trenton,?' N. J., named news editor. MERLIN (Scoop) KENNEDY, Newl, Orleans raconteur and former newsL paper editor and author, to report L WMH means MILWAUKEE REPRESENTED BY FORJOE Page 84 • June 11, 1951 BROADCASTING • Telecasting