Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1955)

Dist. 5— Earl S. Fullbrook, U. of Nebraska. Dist. 7 — E. L. Romney, Mountain States Athletic Conf. (Chairman.) Dist. 8 — Harvey Cassill, U. of Washington. Small Colleges (East) — J. Shober Barr, Franklin and Marshall College. Small Colleges (West) — Theodore Harder, Santa Barbara College. At-Large — Asa S. Bushnell, Eastern College Athletic Conference. At Large — Walter Byers, NCAA executive secretary. Engineers Study Papers PROPOSED papers for the 10th annual Broadcast Engineering Conference to be held April 16-18 during the NARTB convention at the Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago, were reviewed Wednesday at a meeting of the NARTB Engineering Committee's conference program group. Willard J. Purcell, WGY Schenectady, presided at the group session, held in Washington. Others attending were E. K. Jett, WMAR-TV Baltimore, convention liaison; Raymond F. Guy, NBC: Phil Hedrick, WSJS Winston-Salem, N. C; Frank Marx, ABC; C. G. Nopper, WMAR-TV Baltimore; Orrin W. Towner. WHAS Louisville; George Hag:rty. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.; A. Prose Walker. NARTB engineering manager; C. E. Arney Jr., NARTB secretary-treasurer; George W. Bartlett. assistant to Mr. Walker, and John F. Meagher, NARTB radio vice president. Moneyback guarantee CAT BROADCASTING TELECASTING If you send us copy before December 9, we guarantee to get your advertisement in the appropriate section of the Broadcasting (radio) Yearbook. No other 22nd consecutive issue of the Yearbook can make that promise! New NARTB Units Begin Meeting Series SERIES of meetings will be held during December and January by newly appointed NARTB committees. Starting off the series was the Insurance Committee which met last Tuesday in Washington. Plans for a group life insurance program covering employes of radio and tv stations belonging to NARTB will be submitted to the association's board at its February meeting, according to Gilmore N. Nunn, WLAP Lexington, Ky., Insurance Committee chairman. Attending the meeting besides Chairman Nunn were Carl J. Burkland, WAVY Portsmouth, Va.; Roger W. Clipp, WFIL Philadelphia; Robert W. Ferguson, WTRF-TV Wheeling, W. Va.; 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: Richard M. Allerton, research manager; Robert L. Heald, chief attorney; Joseph M. Sitrick, publicity-information manager, and Howard H. Bell, assistant to the president. NARTB meetings scheduled during the next two months follow: Dec. 6 — Am Committee, Washington; Grover C. Cobb, KVGB Great Bend, Kan., chairman. Dec. 7 — Community Antenna Committee, Washington; William Fay, WHAM-TV Rochester, chairman. Dec. 8 — Membership Committee, Washington; J. Frank Jarman, WDNC Durham, N. C, and Kenneth Carter, WAAM (TV) Baltimore, co-chairmen. Dec. 13 — Sports Committee, WaldorfAstoria, New York; George J. Higgins, KMBC-AM-TV Kansas City, chairman. Dec. 16 — Tv Viewer Reaction Committee, Washington; Ward Quaal, WLWT (TV) Cincinnati, chairman. Jan. 5 — Television Information Committee, Washington; Jack Harris, KPRC-TV Houston, chairman. Jan. 10 — Employe-Employer Relations Committee. Washington; Leslie C. Johnson, WHBF Rock Island, III., chairman. Jan. 12 — Tv Film Committee. Washington; Harold P. See, KRON-TV San Francisco, chairman. Jan. 12-13 — Radio Standards of Practice Committee, Washington; Walter E. Wagstaff, KIDO-TV Boise. Idaho, chairman. Jan. 26-27— NARTB Tv Code Review Board, San Francisco. Jan. 30-31 — NARTB board committees, San Marcos Hotel, Chandler, Ariz. Feb. 1-3 — NARTB combined boards, San Marcos Hotel, Chandler, Ariz. Frank Corbett Elected Head Of Tenn. Broadcasters Assn. FRANK CORBETT. WGAP Maryville, was elected president of Tennessee Assn. of Broadcasters at its meeting last week in Memphis. He succeeds Henry W. Slavick, WMC Memphis. Other officers elected were Carter Parham, WDEF-AM-TV Chattanooga, vice president and Jim Dick, WIVK Knoxville, secretary-treasurer. Elected directors were Mr. Slavick; Arthur Smith, WMTS Murfreesboro. and Irving Waugh, WSM Nashville. Radio management is cashing in on the medium's forte — immediacy, economy and; community service — and concentrating on local business, Ray V. Hamilton, partner in the' Blackburn-Hamilton Co. brokerage firm, told the meeting. He traced radio's present economic health to this type of alert management. "It is interesting to note that radio's re-emphasis on local markets in the last couple of years is beginning to again attract the attention of national and spot advertisers," he said, adding his belief that the depressed radio values of the early tv era have passed. Mr. Hamilton said that in every community there is "a vast resource of goodwill which may be obtained by any radio or tv station willing to work for it." Colorado Broadcasters Name Stepp First Exec. Secretary T. ELLSWORTH STEPP, U. of Colorado radio-tv director, has been named as the first executive secretary of the Colorado Broadcasters & Telecasters Assn., according to Elwood Meyer, KYOU Greeley, CBTA president. Mr. Stepp had been with KOA Denver for 10 years in production, sales and promotion. He set up the universiJt* ty\ radio production MR STEPP department in 1947. In announcing the appointment, Mr. Meyer said, "We feel that Mr. Stepp's close personal contacts and his knowledge of broadcasting activities make him the ideal selection for the position." RETMA Head Asks Relief For Acute Nickel Shortage RELIEF measures for the critical nickel shortage that threatens to curtail output of receiving tubes was asked Thursday by H. Leslie Hoffman, president of Radio-Electronics-Tv Mfrs. Assn. in a letter to Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce. Unless more nickel becomes available, Mr. Hoffman declared, "a severe cutback" can be expected in production of electronic equipment using receiving tubes. He submitted a report outlining the electronic industry's nickel requirements and describing techniques devised to save the metal through use of substitutes. He listed 1956 nickel requirements of the tube industry at 262,009 pounds a month and observed that the figure would be 600,000 pounds had it not been for ingenious conservation techniques. Demand for electronics equipment continues to expand, he said, particularly in the military field. WTAM Host to RAB Clinic WTAM Cleveland was host Wednesday to a northern Ohio sales clinic of the Radio Advertising Bureau Inc., attended by 60 persons. The clinic was conducted by RAB President Kevin B. Sweeney, who was introduced to the group attending the clinic by WTAM Sales Manager Harold W. Waddell. Page 62 • December 5, 1955 Broadcasting • Telecasting