Broadcasting Telecasting (July - Sept 1951)

CANADIAN POPULARITY American Programs Ahead FIRST 10 evening network programs in Canada in June were all piped in from the United States, according to national rating report of Elliott-Haynes Ltd., Toronto. Of 22 evening network shows, first 10 were Charlie McCarthy, rating 26.3, Radio Theatre 25.3, Our Miss Brooks 23.8, Amos V Andy 21.7, Twenty Questions 17.9, My Friend Irma 17.1, Aldrich Family 16.8, Suspense 16.1, Mystery Theatre 15.7, and Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts 14.7. Daytime first five of 13 network shows were also American, being Ma Perkins 15.6, Big Sister 15, Pepper Young's Family 14.2, Right to Happiness 13.2, and Life Can Be Beautiful 13.1. Of 19 French-language evening network shows first five were Un Homme et Son Peche 30.1, Metropole 27.7, La Pause Qui Refraichet 23.1, Jouez Double 20.9, Radio Carabin 20. Daytime French-language programs, 14 in number, were led by Rue Principale 21.6, Grand Soeur 21.5, Quart d'Heure de Detente 21.5, Jeunesse Doree 21.3, and Tante Lucie 20.6. Fellows Names Miller JUSTIN MILLER, NARTB board chairman and general counsel, has been selected as alternate delegate to the InterAmerican Assn. of Broadcasters by NARTB President Harold E. Fellows. Gilmore N. Nunn, president WLAP Lexington, Ky., and vice-president of IAAB, was named NARTB's delegate, representing American broadcasters, to the inter-American body in June. Sells ALL the Norfolk Metropolitan Sales Area for You! WTAR delivers more listeners-per-dollar than any other local station in Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Newport News, Virginia. Hooper and BMB prove it. Sell your product more profitably with WTAR. Nat'l. Rep.: Edw. Petry & Co. air-casters ERNEST HARTMAN, production staff WNEW New York, named production manager. JACK SHEFRIN appointed program director WMID Atlantic City. He was with WOAK Chicago, and KNAL Victoria, Texas. RAY PENNER appointed program director WCAV Norfolk. He was with WNOR and WLOW Norfolk. JOE GUIDI, announcer WXGI Richmond, appointed production director WCAV. DAN RUSSELL, program department KPWB Hollywood, named production director. GLORIA MARKOFF, program staff KLX Oakland, Calif., appointed assistant in charge of sales promotion and presentations WTO P-AM-TV Washington. MILLI WILLEFORD appointed director of women's activities WDVA Danville, Va., replacing JACKIE SHERRIN, resigned. JIM SILMAN Jr., announcer WINX Washington, to WTOP Washington, in same capacity. HERMAN HUTCHINSON, graduate Northwest Broadcasting School, Portland, Ore., to KCRE Crescent City, Calif., as announcer-engineer. GLEN ALLER, graduate, to KWIL Albany, Ore., as announcer-engineer. HOLLY BISHOP, graduate, to KWIE Kennewick, Wash. DON WATSON, graduate to KGON Oregon City, Ore. KEN CROES, news editor KERO Bakersfield, Calif., appointed program director. RUDY VON TOBEL, KCRA Sacramento, MEL YORK, KELA Centralia, Wash., and JIM McBRIDE, KBIS Bakersfield, appointed to announcing staff KERO. JEROME CRISWELL starts five weekly quarter-hour Crisivell Predicts on KFWB Hollywood. JACK LEFLIN, sports director WONE Dayton, to WHLI Hempstead, N. Y., as announcer. Mr. Leflin also has been appointed to faculty of School of Radio Technique, New York. EILEEN STULB named to sales and promotion staff WRFC Athens, Ga. She was with WBBQ Augusta. DONALD J. MARXEN to production department WHBF-TV Rock Island, 111. He was with WTCN-TV Minneapolis. JACKIE TATMAN broadcasting daily women's program on WHBP. She was with WDZ Decatur, 111. JANICE BURT named to traffic department WHBF. Sgt. LYLE SELIX, public information office Ft. Sill, Okla., father of daughter, Elaine Katherine. Sgt. Selix was with KGLO Mason City, Iowa. BERNIE HERMAN appointed to announcing staff WIRE Indianapolis. He was with WXLW Indianapolis. JANET GULES to WRDF Worthington, Ohio, as receptionist. HARRY L. TIMMINS Jr., research director KTTV (TV) Los Angeles, father of boy, Harry L., July 9. JOHN ST. LEGER, announcer WORAM-TV New York, father of boy, Robert A., born July 11. MARY BIDDLE, director of women's programs WIP Philadelphia, appointed to National Membership Committee as Eastern Area active member of American Women in Radio. Miss Biddie at the same time was also appointed president of southeast Pennsylvania section of American Women in Radio and Television. She also serves in the dual capacity of Chairman of the Philadelphia Branch of AWRT. FANNIE ENGLE, TV home economist and formerly food editor of MacFadden Publications, appointed by V. S. Becker Productions, N. Y., to head its expanding women's and children's programs. BOB KELLEY, sports announcer, and GUSSIE MORAN, tennis champion, start five weekly 10 minute Kelley and Moran sports program on KNBH (TV) Hollywood. JOSEPH BUSH, to announcing staff WIP Philadelphia, as summer replacement. He was with New Britain Broadcasting Co., and WTIC Hartford. HANS CONRIED, actor director, father of girl, Trilby, July 3. FATSO BERRY, disc jockey KSAN San Francisco, awarded cup at recent Cavalcade of Jazz for being top blues singing disc jockey in area. HUGH BRUNDAGE announces halfhour Sunday This Thing Called Life philosophic series on ABC. DELL O'DELL, magician, starts The Dell O'Dell Show audience-participation program on KECA-TV Los Angeles. It is a Television Assn. Productions package, show sponsored by Big 4 Chrysler-Plymouth dealers, L. A. Mauri • • • CHOC HUTCHESON appointed news director KCBD Lubbock, Texas. He was managing editor The Daily Pacifician, Army newspaper in Manila, P.I. DONALD T. DAVIS, assistant farm director WHAS Louisville, appointed farm director. HAROLD W. BAKER, head of news department, WOW-AM-TV dmi named director of news and spe events WSM-AM-TV Nashville. FRANK LaTOURETTE, head of n and special events ABC Western I named manager of news and spe 1 events for both radio and televii i for network. JACK OLSEN, news editor Wlj Washington, named winner i Scripps-Howard Story of the Mc| Award for June, for recent suit ' story appearing Washington D ' News. CLETE ROBERTS, Clete Roberts \ ports newscasts KLAC-TV Hollyw signed as top commentator for 1 1 Reporter summer television prog ,1 on CBS-TV Eastern network. Fil newscasts taken during Roberts' rei Alaska trip to be utilized on serie IRVING HAMLIN, press departo NBC Hollywood, resigns to beo West Coast representative of E) Israel National Airlines. No repl; I ment named. Mr. Hamlin became I father of a girl July 13. Artists7 Rates NEGOTIATIONS are now uru: way at Montreal and Toronto new rates for radio artists to , into effect Sept. 1. The new rs] will apply for both cities English-language live and tr scribed programs. Negotiating Assn. of Canadian Radio Art i (AFL), Assn. of Canadian Ad\ tisers, Canadian Assn. of Ad^ tising Agencies and represei tives of radio stations in b cities. New rates were to h gone into effect July 12, but h been postponed to Sept. 1. AC is understood to be asking roughly a 25% increase in rates a new arrangement on transc tions which would require fee p' ment every three months inst of annually as now for transcri spots. SONG with the largest radio audi? during the year July 1, 1950-June 1951, was "If," according to Peatman annual survey of popi music on network broadcasts. "Yo Just in Love," ranked second am the song hits of the past year, "Be Love — " third, "Tennessee Wa fourth and "All My Love" fifth rated by Peatman on the basis estimated audience size. carries the weight in the Oregon Mark* DAY -or NIGHT DAYT,ME *2ILv ' * ' U<*to« ° ■ ■ 29S.*1' Station O . • NVCHTT1ME REPRESENTED NATIONALLY BY EDWARB P6TSY & Page 86 • July 23, 1951 BROADCASTING • Telecasti