Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1956)

STATIONS Illinois Supreme Court Will Review Duggan Case CONTEMPT CITATION against Tom Duggan, commentator at WBKB (TV) Chicago, has been scheduled for review by the Illinois Supreme Court, it has been announced in Springfield. The court has agreed to consider a petition for writ of error in which Mr. Duggan (Thomas Duggan Goss) claims 41 errors in his conviction by a Cook County Superior Court last December [B«T, Dec. 19, 1955]. He subsequently was fined $100 and sentenced to 10 days imprisonment. Mr. Duggan claims the conviction violated the first or "free speech" amendment to the Constitution. In ruling contempt, Superior Court Judge Daniel A. Covelli described the case as "precedent-setting" in his court because it was faced for the first time with "remarks passed on television." Mrs. George Clough Dies HELEN DEAN WALDRON CLOUGH, 64, a pioneer with her husband, Galveston Mayor George R. Clough, in radio broadcasting in the Galveston area, died Jan. 13 after suffering a heart attack. In 1923 Mrs. Clough helped her husband start KFLX (now KLUF) Galveston in their home and took an active role in the station until her death. KNX-CPRN Billings Up COMBINED billings for KNX Los Angeles and the Columbia Pacific Radio Network were higher in 1955 than any year during the past five, according to Donald M. Ross, KNX-CPRN general sales manager. KNX business was up 16% over 1954 with local billings showing a 24% increase. CPRN registered a 12% overall increase. REPRESENTATIVE APPOINTMENTS WGEM-TV Quincy, HI., appoints Young Television Corp. as its national advertising representative, effective immediately, and its radio affiliate, WGEM, will be represented by Adam Young Inc. REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE Stephen R. Rintoul Jr., merchandising department. Time Inc., N. Y., to Venard, Rintoul & McConnell Inc., N. Y. STATION PEOPLE 'William R. Craig, program director, WHAP Hopewell, Va.j appointed manager of station, succeeding John Sadler, resigned to leave field. Julius Schainblatt, operations manager, KTVI (TV) St. Louis, promoted to general manager. He has been with station since August 1953, when it went on air. Jack M. Murdock, production manager, KTVI appointed program director, succeeding Ted Westcott, to Chicago office of D'Arcy Adv. •Co., St. Louis, as radio-tv department head. Ed Dahl, general manager, KNCM Moberly, Mo., to KLIK Jefferson City, Mo., as general >Page 74 • January 23, 1956 CPAIG THESE bow-tied and boutonniered men, among those present at a party given in WKZO-AM-TV Kalamazoo, Mich., marking the 25th anniversary of its radio operation, are (I to r): seated, Bill Harms, Avery-Knodel; Carl E. Lee, vice president, Fetzer Broadcasting Co. and managing director, WKZO-AM-TV; J. W. (Bill) Knodel, Chicago manager, Avery-Knodel; John E. Fetzer, president, Fetzer Broadcasting Co., and Ray Niehengen, Avery-Knodel; standing, Bob Alexander, Roger O'Sullivan and Hub Jackson, all AveryKnodel. Approximately 500 attended the celebration. manager. Bill Cannady, news director, KNCM to KLIK as news director. He will be succeeded at KNCM by John Steele, former news director, WFBR Baltimore. R. T. Carlsen, former account executive, KSFO San Francisco, appointed general sales manager, KGDM Stockton, Calif. Ted L. Snider, station manager, KOAT-TV Albuquerque, appointed general manager, KXOC Chico. Calif., by new owner Jack O. Gross, with whom he was formerly associated at KFMB-TV San Diego. James A. Washburn, producer-director, KONA (TV) Honolulu, appointed program manager of new All Islands Television Network (KONA and KMVI-TV Maui). Martin F. Rohde, film producer formerly with KFMB-TV San Diego, to KONA sales staff. Helen O'Connor, WFJL Chicago, to KONA as promotion assistant. Doug Muir, KUOW (FM) Seattle, U. of Washington station, named graphic arts director, KONA. Charles W. Curtin, promotion and public relations director, WEAT-AM-TV West Palm Beach, Fla., named to additional post of sales manager, WEAT. Philip A. Roewe, WKDA Nashville, Tenn., to KPDQ Portland, Ore., as sales manager. Bill Brown, manager, KDKD Clinton, Mo., to KLEE Ottumwa, Iowa, as commercial manager. Tom Adams, announcer, KDKD, to KUDL Kansas City, Mo., as announcer. Robert Lindley, KTSM-TV El Paso, Tex., to KBST-TV Big Spring, Tex., as production man WASHBURN ager. John McMinn, WFAA-TV Dallas, Tex., to KBST-TV as sales manager. Ben Summers, staff announcer, WKLE Washington, Ga., appointed program director. Edwin J. Coles, WTIK Durham, N. C. appointed program director, WSTC-AM-FM Stamford, Conn. Bill N. Yancy art director, WOAI-TV San Antonio, Tex., appointed promotion manager of WOAI-AM-TV. Randall Clay, sports director, WOAI-AM-TV, named merchandising manager in addition to present duties. Norrie West, Bay Area publicist, to KOVR (TV) Stockton-San Francisco, Calif., as publicitypromotion director, replacing Gordon Grannis who has shifted to station's sales staff. Kenneth R. Kurtz to WBBQ Augusta, Ga., as news director. Deen H. Brooks, former production manager, WKWK Wheeling, W. Va., to WSAZ-TV Huntington, W. Va., as coordinator of color production. Peter B. Kenney, executive vice president and general manager, WKNB-AM-TV New Britain, Conn., named "outstanding young boss in business" by New Britain Chamber of Commerce. Hazel Reed, secretary to Bill Bennett, sales manager, KTRK (TV) Houston, Tex., married to Jimmie Smith, Jan. 13. Jack West, assistant sports director and staff announcer, WJDX-WLBT (TV) Jackson, Miss., father of girl, Michaele Dawn, Jan. 3. Jack Annon, producer-director KGMB-TV Honolulu, Hawaii, married to Lei Becker, Dec. 31. Wayne Muller, national sales manager, KBIG Catalina, Calif., father of girl, Elizabeth Gail, Jan. 3. Bob McVay, sports director, KYOS Merced, Calif., father of boy, Steven Brown, Jan. 5. Broadcasting • Telecasting