Broadcasting Telecasting (July - Sept 1951)

in total share of Washington audience Ask your Blair man for the whole story *Pulse: May-June, 1951 WANTED! murder scripts Wanted — scripts adaptable for radio and/or TV. For more information on story requirements, payment rates, etc., write to — W. P. ROBINSON V. P. in charge of Programs W L W Cincinnati 2, Ohio allied arts CHARLES B. BROWN, director of television sales, Bing Crosby Enterprises Inc., L. A., appointed vice president in charge of sales. BASIL GRILLO, secretary-treasurer, named executive vice president. T. W. JOHNSON appointed secretarytreasurer, and HOMER DUERR appointed assistant secretary-treasurer. JOHN O'MELVENY appointed legal council and vice president. BALL & GRIER Public Relations Assoc. opening offices in Utica, N. Y. Partners in firm are GEORGE W. BALL and JOHN J. GRIER, who served on public relations staff University College of Syracuse U. WALLACE C. (Tony) ROBERTS, reporter Utica Observer-Dispatch, named account executive. ELLIOTT H. KELLY named director of labor and public relations Snader Telescriptions Corp., Beverly Hills. SUZANNE DALBERT, French stage and screen actress, signed by Jerry Fairbanks Inc. for major role in Recipe for Murder, latest in Front Page Detective television film series. AL JOSEPH named filmed director Superman Inc., L. A. He will direct half-hour film series, Superman, currently in production. THOMAS L. MILANA, national field representative Associated Artists, N. Y., to Sterling Television Co., N. Y., in similar post. RICHARD KROLIK, project supervisor March of Time, and MARY STUART, New York television actress, married Aug. 1 in New York. THOMAS G. CASSADY, partner in the Chicago investment firm Farwell, Chapman & Co., named chairman of Crusade for Freedom in Cook, Lake and DuPage counties. Group operates Radio Free Europe for areas behind the "Iron Curtain", and is currently working for enrollment of one and one-half million persons for contributions of $200,000 in the Midwest. EVERETT REIMER named principal in Willard Simmons & Assoc., New York research firm. He was with the Survey Research Center of U. of Michigan. JERI WALSH, assistant to producerdirector of Kraft Television Thatre, J. Walter Thompson Co., N. Y.. to MacLevy Studio N. Y., as assistant to the advertising public relations director. ASTATIC CORP., Conneaut, Ohio, announces production of new microphone, crystal model DK-1. Small microphone is designed for easy camouflage and to give audience better view of entertainer. GRAYDON AUSMUS, director of radio broadcasting services U. of Alabama, and vice president of National Assn. of Educational Broadcasters, appointed to four-man committee to administer Kellogg grant given association. WILLIAM A. NAIL, program director Radio Broadcasting Services and WUOA-FM U. of Alabama, named program assistant. Overseas Services Section, Voice of America. JOHN GROLLER, associate professor of radio education and director of radio workshop Ithaca College, appointed director of new radio and TV office created by Board of National Missions of Presbyterian Church in U.S.A. He was with CBS and McClatchy Broadcasting Co. HAROLD E. STASSEN, president, U. of Pennsylavnia, appointed chairman of 1951 Crusade for Freedom $3,500,000 fund drive. £quijament • • • HENRY ONORATI, assistant advertising manager and national production manager RCA Victor Records, appointed director of electronics advertising Crosley Div., Avco Mfg. Corp. Mr. Onorati will supervise all electronics advertising for Crosley. ROBERT E. GIANNINI, sales section, tube division, General Electric, Schenectady, appointed district representative for company's tube division with headquarters in L. A. EDWARD T. CONNOLLY, GE tube replacement sales, Schenectady, named district sales representative for tube division. He will make his headquarters in Cleveland. H. B. NELSON Jr., supervisor of cooperative advertising for GE electronics department's receiver division, appointed assistant to sales manager of replacement tubes for company's tube division. MANUFACTURERS ELECTRONIC SERVICE, Santa Monica, Calif, appointed by MAGNECORD Inc., Chicago, as its West Coast service station, under direction HARRY E. FETIG. All equipment used in new service plant is duplication of equipment used in Magnecord factory. Complete parts service is maintained Mr. Onorati along with repair and replacemen j service. Announces addition of pub blic relations department headed b; NONIE HUNTER. New Department will keep the recording and allien fields along with general public in' formed of developments in researc) and test laboratories, and of new hap penings in production department. GEORGE J. COSSMAN, Chicago dis trict manager and member of boar of directors and executive committed Graybar Electric Co., N. Y., retirin after 51 years service with companjj ALLEN B. DuMONT Labs, Cliftoij N. J., announces new model imag orthicon camera chain, mo del TA-124i:»E. It is designed for use in field, i ■) • studio, or for film pickup. Compan-^r also announced new improved videJIsre switching and mixing equipmen fo< > Equipment consists of nine-chanm-p m switch unit, mixer line amplifier an low voltage supply. "Technical • • • i i Mi EDMUND J. SMITH, chief studio er gineer WTMA Charleston, S. C, ei ters Capitol Radio Engineering Ii stitute, Washington, specializing i TV. J. W. ROLAND, supervising operate. CBV Quebec, to same position CBIV. FM Montreal. EUGENE LAJOIE, supervising oper:ll i is i Ec tor CBJ Chicoutimi, to same po: CBM Montreal. IAN STEPHEN, operator CBW Wit nipeg, to CBK Watrous, in same c; pacity. EDWARD J. CONTURE, engine( \ KECA-TV Los Angeles, father of gill July 16. J. HERBERT RATTIGAN, WBM I Boston, appointed chief engine(f WOTW Nashua, N. H., succeedirJ| ROBERT C. BINGHAM, now wil WLAW Lawrence, Mass. ; trtk ! il DEDICATION of RCA's two-way m i bile communication system designs HP, for police, fire and civil defense cor! 11 munications, was held in Philadelphia New center will serve as auxiliaiJ il radio station for control of cityfi: motorized police and fire department and control center during civil d jjr fense and general emergencies. Icglo 1300 KC. 5,000 Watts CBS MASON CITY, IOWA Page 82 • August 6, 1951 15th year of SERVICE to 63,740 rural-urban homes, with farm income $535,703,000; total retail sales $493,004,000. A Lee Station — represented by Weed & Company. BROADCASTING • Telecastin £7