Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1955)

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Record Details:

Title:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Date:
Jan-Mar 1955
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Broadcasting Publications Inc.
Volume:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Leaf #:
0001008
Language:
English
Subjects:
radio and television periodical, Broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
June 13, 2024
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erage for active personnel. The committee agreed to continue its support of state groups seeking enactment of laws relieving broadcasters of absolute liability for defamation. Over half the states now have such laws. Nearly 600 stations now have tower insurance written as a result of NARTB's program, with hundreds of others having more favorable rates. A study is being made of business interruption coverage. Attending the meeting besides Chairman Nunn were Carl J. Burkland, WAVY Portsmouth, Va.; Roger Clipp, WFIL Philadelphia; Robert W. Ferguson, WTRF-TV Wheeling; C. T. Lucy, WRVA Richmond, Va., and Robert T. Mason, WMRN Marion, Ohio. Taking part for NARTB were President Harold E. Fellows; John F. Meagher, radio vice president; Thad H. Brown Jr., tv vice president; Vincent Wasilewski, chief attorney; Howard H. Bell, assistant to the president; Joseph M. Sitrick, manager of publicity and informational services, and Mr. Allerton. Industry Feres VOD Winners In Washington, Williamsburg FOUR WINNERS of the annual Voice of Democracy contest were feted by the industry and by official Washington last week, receiving college scholarships, tv sets and trophies at the awards luncheon Wednesday in Washington. Awards were presented by U. S. Commissioner of Education Samuel M. Brownell on behalf of the Office of Education, NARTB, RadioElectronics-Tv Mfrs. Assn. and U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. Theodore F. Koop. CBS Washington director of news and public affairs, was m.c. of the luncheon. The winners FOUR Voice of Democracy contest prize winners presented President Eisenhower wi a gold transcription of their scripts at the White House Wednesday. L to r: Dwight Dav Walker, Oskaloosa, Iowa; Judy Abramson, Yuba City, Calif.; the President; Catherir Styles, Minneapolis, and Avron Maletzky, Schenectady, N. Y. were received at the White House Wednesday by President Eisenhower. Over the weekend the four appeared on CBS-TV's Youth Takes a Stand. The previous weekend they had taken part in ceremonies at I THE BUFFALO EVENING NEWS STATION CBS BASIC WBEN-TV WBEN-TV LEADS THE WAY 1 st on the air ... 1 st in know how ... 1 st in experience. WBEN-TV, Buffalo's favorite station, is also 1 st in Niagara Falls, Olean, Jamestown, Lockport and other Western New York communities. WBEN-TV has high penetration in Toronto and Southern Ontario. Trained and experienced personnel of Buffalo's 1st station are equipped to interpret and handle your advertising needs. . . . colonial Williamsburg, Va., in the anr Democracy Workshop. The four were pic | from 1.5 million contest entries. They Judy Abramson, Yuba City, Calif.; Avron seph Maletzky, Schenectady, N. Y.; Cathei, Esther Styles, Minneapolis, an exchange stud from New Zealand, and Dwight David Wall Oskaloosa, Iowa. James D. Secrest, VOD committee chairrr presented tv sets on behalf of RETMA. which he is executive vice president. RET! also presented state winners with receiving s Advertising Executives Club Formed in San Francisco Are SAN FRANCISCO BAY area public relatic sales and advertising executives have forn a limited membership organization called Advertising Executives Club, Ad Fried, nev. elected president, has announced. Besides Mr. Fried, owner of the Ad Fi Adv. Agency, officers elected were: Lowell Trautman. owner of Trautman Apparel ( vice president; Jack deMello, sales manai KROW Oakland, secretary, and Al He Berkeley Daily Gazette advertising direci treasurer. Named to the board of directors were: D aid M. Murphy, public relations director, Lu> Stores; Raymond B. Giles, business devel ment director. Pacific Coast Engineering ( Dalton Gautreaux, Small & Gautreaux A Agency; Clayton Snyder, president, Sny Publications and Joseph Wright, advertising rector, Oakland Tribune. Sportscasters Elect Dunphy DON DUNPHY. freelance sports announ and commentator, last week was elected pn dent of the Sports Broadcasters Assn. for 19 succeeding Dean Miller, sports editor of Uni Press Radio. Others named in the annual t loting: Jim McKay, CBS-TV, first vice pn dent; Les Keiter, WINS New York, second v president, and Frank Litsky, UP Radio, sec tary. Len Dillon, WFAS White Plains, N. was re-elected treasurer. Get the WBEN-TV Story from HARRINGTON, RIGHTER & PARSONS, INC. Page 82 • February 28, 1955 Broadcasting • Telecasti