Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1956)

' FILM nounced addition of new, 15-minute weekly sports round-up script to CBS Newsfilm service and also added WMAL-TV Washington, and KTVI (TV) St. Louis to its station clients. Screen Gems Inc., N. Y., commercial film department, has eliminated its sales force and will concentrate on servicing present clients and those who buy tv films syndicated by Screen Gems. Commercial film department's creative staff now will work directly with client and agency representatives. FILM PEOPLE Garland C. Misener, manager of professional motion picture services, Ansco Div., General Aniline & Film Co., Binghamton, N. Y., to Capital Film Labs. Inc., Washington, D. C, as director of laboratory operations. Everett M. Jess, formerly with Philip Boyer Organization, N. Y., advertisingsales promotion consultants, appointed account executive in slidefilm division of Transfilm Inc., N. Y. \ Howard E. Johnson, manager of design and creative operations, NBC Pacific Div., to Four Star Productions Inc., Culver City, Calif., as art director. MR. MISENER TRADE ASSNS. NARTB TO STUDY RADIO-TV CODES AT BOARD GATHERING NEXT WEEK Possible revision of ethical standards, remote control for more radio outlets, tv circulation project, membership campaigns, and wide variety of other industry topics will be discussed by association meetings in Chandler, Ariz., beginning Jan. 30. THE two NARTB codes of ethics — Radio Standards of Practice and Tv Code — face revision as well as the prospect of stronger industry impact when NARTB's combined boards meet next week at the San Marcos Hotel, Chandler, Ariz. After preliminary board committee meetings starting Jan. 30, the Tv Board will meet Feb. 1 under chairmanship of Clair R. McCollough, Steinman stations. The Radio Board will meet Feb. 2, under Henry B. Clay, KWKH Shreveport, La., with the joint boards winding up the proceedings Feb. 3. Radio interest will center, too, around NARTB's proposal that all stations be permitted to use remote control equipment. Over 700 stations might use such facilities were FCC to extend its remote ruling which now is limited to 10 kw non-directional outlets. NARTB has conducted extensive tests, under Prose Walker, engineering director, which show the feasibility of operating 50 kw equipment and directional gear with automatic devices. The long-pending plan to set up a television circulation project, with industry financing, will be reviewed by the Tv Board. Field tests have been conducted and the three-year project may TO CLEVELANDERS... ALL Business is LOCAL BRIGHT CLIENTS Advertise and Sell with WSRS SMART PEOPLE Enjoy Listening and Buying with WSRS Owi /t THittwt Sat* fin GREATER CLEVELAND'S NUMBER 1 STATION MORE MUSIC. . . MORE NEWS . . . MORE OFTEN John E. Pearson Co., National Representatives The Community Information Station with the AL!-'A^^-LcAfi Family Appeal emerge from the board meeting ready for action. President Harold E. Fellows will head the NARTB staff from Washington headquarters. Thad H. Brown Jr., tv vice president, and John F. Meagher, radio vice president, will attend along with Joseph M. Sitrick, manager of publicity and informational services, and other department heads. Reports will be submitted on legislative and regulatory developments and the joint boards will go over plans for a membership campaign that started this month and runs to April 1. A financial report will be submitted by the Finance Committee of which William D. Pabst, KFRC San Francisco, is chairman. Other topics include the 1956 NARTB convention to be held April 15-19 in Chicago, copyright and legislative matters and employeremploye relations. Co-chairmen of the Convention Committee are E. K. Hartenbower, KCMO Kansas City, and Campbell Arnoux, WTAR-TV Norfolk, Va., radio and tv board vice chairmen, respectively. The Freedom of Information Committee, headed by Robert D. Swezey, WDSU-AM-TV New Orleans, will review progress in promoting access for radio-tv at public proceedings. Judge Justin Miller, NARTB consultant and former board chairman, will report on freedom of information with emphasis on access to legal proceedings. Judge Miller and Vincent Wasilewski, NARTB government relations director, will represent NARTB at the Colorado Supreme Court hearing on courtroom coverage, starting Jan. 30 in Denver. Main interest in the report of the Sports Committee, headed by George J. Higgins, KMBC-AM-TV Kansas City, will center around proposal of the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. to continue its general format of closely controlled football telecasts. A summary of resolutions adopted at the eight NARTB regional meetings held last autumn will be submitted. In reviewing state broadcaster association activities, the directors will go into plans for the first state association presidents' dinner to be held Feb. 21 in Washington. Other reports to be considered include work of the new Assn. for Professional Broadcasting Education; findings of the joint Industry-Government Tall Structure Committee of the Air Coordinating Committee (NARTB did not vote pending board action), and recommendations to the joint board for a group life insurance plan covering the industry. Mr. Meagher will report for the Am Radio Committee, proposing a National Radio Week (tv members have advocated a National Television Week). Grover C. Cobb, KVGB Great Bend, Kan., is committee chairman. The committee is interested in a plan to ask FCC for a blanket increase in station power. It has showed interest, too, in tv survey techniques, as developed by NARTB and now in the testing process. The committee's concern centers around adaptation of tv methods to radio. Another radio discussion will be based on a recommendation that the autumn regional meetings be limited to two days instead of three. One of the main topics coming before the Radio Board centers around plans to implement the Standards of Practice. A series of recom Page 50 • January 23, 1956 Broadcasting • Telecasting