Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1952)

D. E. (TONY) PROVOST, vice president and general manager of Hearst radio operations, elected director of KING AM-FM-TV Seattle. Hearst, through the Seattle Post Intelligencer, holds 25% interest in KING properties. NEAL SMITH, sales manager and account e:secutive, WLW Cincinnati, to WCOL Columbus, Ohio, as station manager. TOM GARTEN, commercial manager, WSAZ Huntington, W. Va., appointed station manager. JAMES H. FERGUSON, program director, moves to WSAZ-TV as director of sales. HUGH B. LARUE, sales manager. Aloha Network, Hawaii, named account executive at WNBC New York. WILLIAM KIEWEL appointed station manager at Mr. Smith KROX Crookston, Minn., replacing GARY FOX, who moves to station's sales department. PETER M. SOUTTER appointed an account executive in sales department of DuMont Television Network, N. Y. CLARENCE H. BRACEY, general commercial manager, WHOO Orlando, Fla., to staff of ABC Television Spot Sales. CHARLES BENNETT, program director, KCSB San Bernardino, Calif., promoted to station manager. HERBERT MARTIN, Jr. named sales manager, WSGN and WSGN-AM Birmingham, Ala.; B. W. RAND A appointed manager of general sales, and OTIS DODGE has been added to the station's sales staff. I to WINS NOW 50,000 WATTS Day and NIGHT! Now WINS offers a powerful 50,000 watts around the clock. This means still greater coverage an even better signal — another reason why . ; . 1010 WINS! wrns 50,000 WATTS DAY AND NIGHT . . . NEW YORK AL HORRIGAN, news editor, WBYS Canton, 111., named station manager succeeding the late BILLY RICHARDSON who was fatally injured in an automobile accident Dec. 10 [B«T, Dec. 24, 1951]. GEORGE P. MOORE, director of sales, WLWT (TV) Cincinnati, to WLTV (TV) Atlanta as general sales manager. PHIL BALDWIN, Westminster, B. C., vertising Club. assistant manager, CKNW New elected director of Vancouver Ad EDWARD BLEIER, program and audience promotion department, DuMont TV Network, N. Y., to local spot sales department of WJZ-TV same city, as account executive. Mr. Moore STUART V. WEISSMAN, assistant to sales manager, WOR New York, named to sales staff. Succeeding Mr. Weissman as sales manager's assistant is ROLLIN BOYNTON, WQXR New York. WILLIAM J. MARTIN, Look magazine sales joins NBC New York network sales department. representative, Phila., JOSEPH L. STANLEY, timebuyer, Raymond R. Morgan Co., Hollywood, to KFI Hollywood as account executive. F. W. H. WELLWOOD named executive assistant to GEORGE C. CHANDLER, president of CJOR Vancouver. Mr. Wellwood was formerly management consultant for a number of internationally-known companies including E. B. Eddy Co., Hull, Que.; Belding-Corticelli Ltd., Montreal; Canadian Marconi Co., Montreal; and Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York. WILLIAM H. DAVIS, assistant to sales manager, WGN-TV Chicago, to CBS Television Spot Sales, same city, as account executive. CAPT. GLENN GILBERT, formerly WGAR Cleveland sales staff member, shipped overseas with Air Force. Mr. Wellwood C. MERWIN TRAVIS, Howard G. Mayer & Assoc., Hollywood, to ABC Western Division as sales promotion manager succeeding JOHN HANSEN who moves to KECA same city, as account executive. BERRY LONG, sales manager of WNBC New York, to KLZ Denver as local sales manager replacing R. MAIN MORRIS who will devote full time to post of assistant manager. KNOX LaRUE, manager, San Francisco office, George P. Hollingbery Co., station representative, joins KONG Visalia, Calif., as general manager effective Feb. 15. He also will assist in KSTN Stockton management. GEORGE LINDMAN, manager, KPOA Honolulu, succeeds him as George P. Hollingbery Co.'s San Francisco manager. ROBERT WHITE has resigned as account executive at Mr. Long MBS New York. Future plans are unannounced. JOHN BRUBAKER, news editor, WCCC Hartford, switches to the station's sales staff. PAUL MARTIN, station manager, was incorrectly identified as having assumed this position. [B*T, Jan. 28] l^ationaU • • • JOHN PATTISON WILLIAMS, executive vice president of WING Dayton, WIZE Springfield and WCOL Columbus, Ohio, re-elected to the board of directors of Dayton Community Chest for three-year term. ROGER W. CLIPP, general manager, WFIL-AM-TV Philadelphia, named chairman of the radio-TV publicity committee for 1952 Heart Fund campaign in Philadelphia area. JOHN D. SCHEUER Jr., operations assistant to general manager of (Continued on page 56) CROSLEY BROADCASTING CORPORATION WJZ New York celebrated sixth anniversary fortnight ago of its Farm Neivs Program with Phil Alampi, WJZ farm news editor. Mr. Alampi, a past president of National Assn. of Radio Farm Directors, has missed only one broadcast during entire period of Monday-through-Saturday (6-6:30 a.m. EST) programs. WEOK POUGHKEEPSIE REPRESENTED BY D EVN E Y Page 52 • February 4, 1952 BROADCASTING • Telecasting