Broadcasting Telecasting (July - Sept 1952)

NARTB ASKED TO COMPILE EDUCATIONAL TV PROGRAMS NARTB urged by District 9 (111., Wis.) broadcasters to conduct survey of educational programming by commercial television stations. Winding up two-day meeting at Milwaukee Friday, district called for research project as answer to FCC's laxity in awarding video CP's to schools without showing of financial responsibility. Merrill Lindsay, WSOY Decatur, 111., presided at meeting as district director. Other resolutions endorsed plan to amend FCC operator rule requirements; encouraged NARTB membership drive; voiced appreciation to speakers and NARTB staff for services. Kenneth Carter, WAAM (TV) Baltimore, member of NARTB TV Board, conducted TV clinic Friday afternoon at studios of WTMJTV Milwaukee, serving as TV board representative at meeting. Others on panel were: Walter Damm and George Comte, WTMJ-TV; Leslie C. Johnson, WHBF-TV Rock Island, and Tom Wilson, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Washington attorneys. Over 70 delegates attended Milwaukee sessions. They were luncheon guests Friday of Miller Brewing Co. Two-day agenda included participation by President Harold E. Fellows; Richard P. Doherty, employe-employer relations director, and William T. Stubblefield, station relations director. PHILADELPHIA PROBLEM ON FOOTBALL TELECAST QUESTION whether Penn-Notre Dame game in Philadelphia last Saturday would be telecast locally, even though NCAA had given permission, was still up in air late Friday. Indecision was attributed to NCAA's collateral refusal to let that game and nationally telecast Columbia-Princeton game (NBC-TV) both be carried in Philadelphia area (early story page 64). NCAA also gave permission for Michigan-Michigan State game in Detroit to be telecast locally, in lieu of Columbia-Princeton contest, but because of baseball game commitments there, among other factors, it was deemed unlikely this permission would be used. SURGEONS CONSIDER DRIVE USE OF RADIO and television to aquaint public with its campaign against such medical practices as "fee splitting" and "ghost surgery" is under consideration by American College of Surgeons, authorities said Friday during its annual congress in New York. WRDW AUGUSTA ELECTS GROVER C. MAXWELL, operating 38 furniture stores in Southeast, elected president of WRDW Augusta, Ga., by board of d;rectors. Other officers: Allen M. Woodall, president of WDAK Columbus, elected executive vice president; Harry L. Jernigan, vice president; W. Ray Ringson, secretary-treasurer and general manager. VOTE COMMITTEES COMPLETE LINEUP of register and vote committees for all 48 states completed Friday with appointment of Roy Dabadie, WJBO Baton Rouge, as chairman of Louisiana committee. Campaign being conducted by NARTB in effort to bring out record vote at November elections. Page 118 • September 29, 1952 POLY-LINGUAL JUDGE TALK on radio freedom and salute to broadcasters of Colombia transcribed in Spanish by Judge Justin Miller, NARTB board chairman-general counsel. Message to be broadcast in connection with Colombia radio week Oct. 5-11 under auspices of Inter-American Assn. of Broadcasters. Business Briefly (Continued from page 5) of spots for Dunhill Cigarettes, that city, through Biow Co., also N. Y., and for General Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, through D'Arcy Adv., N. Y. GRAHAM AGAIN • Billy Graham Evangelistic Foundation, through Walter F. Bennett agency, Chicago, renews Hour of Decision on ABC radio from Nov. 2 for 52 weeks. Show, on for second year, is aired Sundays, 2:30-3 p.m. CST, and features Mr. Graham, evangelist. CAMEL SHOW • R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. (Camel cigarettes), will sponsor new weekly comedy-quiz show, Walk a Mile, on NBC radio (Wed., 8-8:30 p.m. EST), beginning Oct. 8. Agency: William Esty & Co., N. Y. CBS-TV UHF AFFILIATES TWO UHF television stations— WHUM-TV Reading, Pa., and KBTV (TV) Denver— will join CBS-TV this autumn. First station signed was WHUM-TV with Herbert V. Akerberg, network station relations vice president, and Humboldt J. Greig, president-general of station, handling negotiations. Station due to take air by mid-December with 260 kw visual power. Contract is for primary affiliation. KBTV (TV) joins network Oct. 12 as basic affiliation. It is authorized to Colorado Television Corp. (KVOD). SHOWS ON CANADIAN TV DuMONT's Johns Hopkins Science Review slated to start today (Mon.) on CBLT (TV) Toronto and CBFT (TV) Montreal as first U. S. network TV show regularly scheduled by new Canadian Broadcasting Co. stations, DuMont announced Friday. NBC OPENING SPECIAL "All Star Revue" featuring NBC top stars will mark formal opening of network's new Burbank (Calif.) television studios Oct. 4 (Sat., 8-9 p.m.), NBC announced Friday. "Revue" series sponsored by Pet Milk, Kellogg, and Del Monte canned products. RADIO PREFERRED SURVEY of local preferences among Richfield distributors disclosed that spot radio is major advertising medium used by distributors on local basis in cooperation with supplier, Richfield Oil Corp. of New York, officials said Friday. Runners-up in survey were newspaper advertising and spot movie ads in local theatres. PEOPLE.. DONALD R. SHAW, vice president and ac count supervisor of Pedlar & Ryan Inc., N. Y I to C. J. LaRoche & Co., same city, as membe of plans board and executive staff. JOHN H. BOYLE, director of television WAVE-TV Louisville, named director of tele vision and radio, advertising dept., Reynold Metals Co. He is succeeded by GEORGE PAT TERSON, WAVE-TV program manager, wh now holds title of television program an production manager. THOMAS C. BUTCHER, vice president, Wil liam Esty & Co., N. Y., to Lennen & Mitchek that city, as vice president and managemeri account supervisor. ALFRED F. HARRISON, special represents tive, United Press, and pioneer in developmen of radio news processing, is recuperating a his Washington home from slight cardia seizure suffered week ago. He originalk developed and sold first radio news service fo: Consolidated Press in twenties and afterwarr returned to UP to establish its first radk THEATRE TV, AT&T MEET MEETING between theatre TV interests ant AT&T scheduled for tomorrow at Washington headquarters of Motion Picture Assn. of America, it was announced Friday. Discussion will be on AT&T availabilities and costs of requirements requested several months ago by MPAA and National Exhibitors Theatre Television Committee, in preparation for Oct. 20 FCC hearing on accounting and engineering phases of request for theatre TV frequencies (see earlier story on page 73). ALABAMA FM CAMPAIGN NOVEMBER campaign to promote sale of FM receiving sets to be planned at meeting to be held Oct. 9 on U. of Alabama campus, Tuscaloosa. Henry P. Johnston, WSGN-AM-FM Birmingham, is broadcast chairman of state campaign committee. John H. Smith Jr.. NARTB FM director, who has guided series of state-city drives to promote FM sales, will take part in Tuscaloosa meeting. DENY WKOW PETITION PETITION to reconsider hearing order on whether WKOW Madison, Wis., abdicated license responsibility in management contract with Atlass Amusement Co. [B»T, Aug. 25, April 7; Nov. 12, 1951] was denied by FCC Friday. Comrs. Edward M. Webster and Robert T. Bartley dissented. Move to dispense with hearing was opposed by FCC's Broadcast Bureau. Earlier in week, Madison TV applicant WISC asked Commission to include WKOW renewal proceedings in hearings on competitive applications for uhf Channel 27. Both stations have been notified that their TV applications must go to comparative hearing. WBRY DISMISSED APPLICATION of WBRY Waterbury, Conn., for uhf Channel 53 was dismissed by FCC Friday upon petition of station w^hich said its dismissal would permit early grant of WATR's bid for that channel, hence bringing TV to city sooner than if competitive hearing were held. FCC last week also denied WBRY's petition to add uhf Channel 83 to Waterbury (see story page 57) . WBRY has indicated it will re-file later for amendment of rules to add Channel 83 there, at which time new TV bid would be tendered. BROADCASTING • Telecasting