Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1955)

STATIONS REPRESENTATIVE APPOINTMENT WTAO Cambridge, Mass., names Robert S. Keller Inc., N. Y., national representative, effective immediately. Keller also represents WTAOTV. REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE Jay A. Whalen, salesman at Edward Petry & Co., to sales staff, N. Y. office of Venard, Rintoul & McConnell Inc. Norman Noyes, L. A. manager, Branham Co., Chicago, father of girl, Nov. 19. STATION PEOPLE Harold O. Parry, WSAI Cincinnati sales staff, appointed sales manager. Howard Eicher, former freelance radio-tv performer, to WSAI as account executive. Les Lindvig, account executive, KPHO-TV Phoenix, Ariz., appointed local television sales manager for that station. Willard W. Thomas, former sales manager, KEPR-TV Pasco, Wash., to KLEW-TV Lewiston, Idaho, as sales manager. Robert A. Loudon, salesman, KLER Lewiston, Idaho, to KLEW-TV Lewiston as combination salesmanproduction man. Tom Gregory, chief announcer, WPAT Paterson, N. L, appointed staff announcer for WABD (TV) New York. David Kittrell, former Atlanta manager, CBS Radio Spot Sales, to WTVD Durham, N. C, sales department. Jack Carney. KGUL Galveston, Tex., to KOOLTV Phoenix. Ariz., as announcer-director. Mrs. Dawna Banford to KOOL-TV as director of continuity. George Hack, disc jockey, WMID Atlantic City, N. L, to WSUX Seaford, Del., as program director, disc jockey. Jim O'Leary, disc jockey, KBIQ Avalon, Calif., to KCBQ San Diego. Jack Duane, former news and sports director, KFKA Greeley, Colo., appointed KVWO Cheyenne, Wyo., news and sports director. Bernard N. Lomberg, former freelance tv producer, to WIP Philadelphia as account executive. Pat Gardenhire, Ted Levy Agency and Daugherty Assoc.. Denver, to KBTV (TV) Denver as account executive. Shigeo Toyama to KHBC Hilo, Hawaii, engineering staff. Richard Kitson to KGMB-TV Honolulu, Hawaii, production department. Ernesto Cervera to KWKW Pasadena, Calif., as special consultant for Spanish language programs. Sid Hampel, sales manager, WPAT Patterson, N. J., to sales staff, WOV New York. Joan Weldon, Hollywood vocalist, signed to contract at KTLA (TV) Los Angeles. Roger Juveland and Lowell Johnson to KXJB WSDR Prevents 'Big Blow' A YOUNG man walked into a filling station in Rock Falls, 111., and ordered five gallons of fuel oil. Twenty minutes after the man left, the station attendant discovered that he had filled the can with high test gasoline, and notified Fire Chief Russell Maynard and Police Chief Glenn Keime of his error. The public officials asked WSDR, in nearby Sterling, to broadcast warnings every 10 minutes that the fuel "could cause a terrific explosion" if ignited in a furnace. The station also broadcast an appeal for volunteers to make a houseto-house canvass looking for the purchaser. Within an hour several hundred joined the search and two of them located the buyer, Andy Chambers. Mr. Chambers said that he had poured the fuel into his tank and "was just going to light it." TV Fargo, N. D., as cameramen; Rexford L. Watson to KXIB-TV Fargo, N. D., as film editor; Duane Chance to CBS Hollywood tape recording department; John Hart to KGEZ Kalispell, Mont., as announcer; Jack Hurlbut to WKOW-TV Madison, Wis.: Ronald Sang to WISN-TV Milwaukee as floorman; Paul L. Morgan to KWG Tulare, Calif., as announcerdirector; Robert K. Harmon to KGNC-TV Amarillo, Texas, as floorman; Mary Seidl to KGNO Dodge City, Kans., as commercial writer, and Edgar M. Engelen to WDAY-TV Fargo, N. D., as camerman. All are graduates of Northwest Radio & Television School, Portland, Ore. Margie Klain, Stephens College. Columbia, Mo., graduate, to continuity department of WIRE Indianapolis. Milton Slater, former program manager, WWLP-TV Springfield, Mass., to WHTN-TV Huntington, W. Va., as program director. He fills vacancy created by resignation of George Snell. Frank Introvatolo to WHTN-TV as studio engineer. Lloyd Hamlin to station as projectionist-photographer, and Jerry F. Cales to WHTN-TV as projectionist. Jerome Lipman to station sales department and Ted Wolfe to WHTN-TV announcing staff. Grady Cole, WBT Charlotte, N. C. agriculture editor, appointed chairman of Mutual Aid Division of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Civil Defense organization. Sig Sakowicz, disc jockey, WIJD Chicago, appointed to board of directors for United Cerebral Palsy Assn. of Chicago. Mary Merryfield, commentator. WMAQ Chicago, has departed for Near East trip to tape material for her Radio Journal. Barry Glass, disc jockey. WWIN Baltimore, married to Shirley Politzer Nov. 29 in Baltimore. Lloyd O. McFee, WEIC Charleston, 111., program director, father of girl, Sept. 28. Elton H. Rule, general sales manager, KABCTV Los Angeles, father of girl, Christi Ann, Nov. 17. Walter Smith. KYW Philadelphia, father of girl. Diane, Nov. 12. Ruth R. Borscher, WITH Baltimore, to be married to Mr. Alfred L. Hurwitz, Dec. 26. — PERSONNEL RELATIONS NBC, NABET Differ i Concerning Color Crew POSSIBILITY of a full-blown dispute betwee NBC and the National Assn. of Broadca Employes & Technicians (NABET-CIO), i; volving WNBQ (TV) Chicago and its currei color plans, hung in the balance Friday. The controversy arose over staffing requir ments for the operation of color tv equipmei at WNBQ and stemmed initially from a tw( and-a-half hour work stoppage at NBC WMAQ some weeks ago. NABET's Chicago office charged Thursda in a prepared statement, that the disagreemei emerged because of the network's demand f( "sub-standard staffing and wages" for operatir tv equipment and the alleged refusal to hone a joint union-management committee pact ( 1954. G. Tyler Byrne, NABET network dire tor, said NBC threatened to drop its color coi version program for WNBQ. announced by tf network Nov. 2 [B«T, Nov. 7]. Core of the dispute is how many techniciai should be assigned on color crews. NABE claims one should be assigned to each cole camera chain, whereas NBC was represented ; insistina on one for each two chains. In Chicago NBC officials declined commei inasmuch as the matter had been referred t New York network quarters. NBC in Ne York had no immediate comment, except -1 say Friday afternoon that company and unio were working toward a solution. NABE sources reported the dispute had been parti settled but that the "one-half disagreemeni could be important in any settlement. The question was raised in NBC Chicag quarters, however, as to whether NABET's ne work pact would apply to local color origin; tions which WNBQ plans to pioneer in Chicag( The NABET statement claimed that NB' originally had "insisted" that the color tv pr< gram be coupled "with another demand in radi which also represents a contract violation." blamed the brief stoppage at WMAQ on NBC "insistence" on this procedure. Birmingham Union Aqrees Not to Picket Advertisers A FEDERAL judge Thursday approved a agreement in which technicians of IBEW Loc< 253. promised not to picket advertisers c WAPI, WAFM (FM) and WABT (TV), a Birmingham, Ala., where a strike has been i progress since July 1. Approved by U. S. District Judge Hobai Grooms, the agreement was signed two day before a scheduled hearing on a petition by th National Labor Relations Board for a tempc rary injunction to halt alleged secondary boj cotting by the union. S. B. Teu, NLRB attorney, said the agreemer accomplishes the same purpose as that sougt in the petition for an injunction. The injunc tion hearing was postponed indefinitely. Th agreement provides that the union will nc picket any concern in an effort to force it t "cease doing business with Alabama Broadcast ing System Inc.," which operates the thre stations. It also was stipulated that the union will no seek to have employes of other companies re fuse to handle goods with the object of forcin such persons or companies to cease doin. business with Alabama Broadcasting. If th union is charged with violating the agreement it is provided that NLRB may call on its in junction petition by giving three days notice. About 20 technical engineers represented bj Page 98 • December 5, 1955 Broadcasting • Telecastinc