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will gel you. There is nothing "chicken" about the way WTAR-TV dominates its market. Buy the one and only "V" Station for five of Virginia's busiest cities, all well within WTAR-TV's "Grade A" Signal. Combined, they make America's 26th Market. 5.MPTON iEW>ORT NEWS j NORFOLK PORTSMOUTH IN FOOD SALES, for example, The Bureau of the Census (Preliminary Report) shows that WTAR-TV's total coverage area had total Food Sales of over $161,628,000. And here are food sales by cities: NORFOLK $96,031,000 HAMPTON $16,419,000 PORTSMOUTH $23,344,000 WARWICK $ 9,717,000 NEWPORT NEWS $16,117,000 CHANNEL 3 NORFOLK.VA. Represented by Edward Petry & Co., Inc. For a real Sales KNOCKOUT in the Detroit area CKLW-TV channel 9 325,000 WATTS 1 Adorn Young 7«/«vition Corporation National Rep. 50,000 WATTS TRADE ASSNS. Tv Code Board, Networks To Confer on Continuity FIRST meeting of NARTB's Tv Code Review Board with tv network continuity acceptance directors will be held during the March 21-22 session of the code group, to be held in New York. The board also will study the proposed new affiliation type of membership which has been suggested for producers and distributors of tv film. G. Richard Shafto, WIS-TV Columbia, S. C, tv code board chairman, said the meeting with network representatives "is another indication of the major role played by the tv networks in the industry's ever-growing program of selfregulation." Network participants in the code meeting will be Grace Johnsen, ABC-TV; Herbert A. Carlborg, CBS-TV, and Stockton Helffrich, NBC-TV. IRE Convention Program Set A SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM on "Color Television Tape Recording" will be among highlights of 1956 Institute of Radio Engineers Convention, which is expected to attract some 45,000 engineers and scientists to New York March 19-22, IRE spokesmen said in releasing the convention program. A color tv tape recording session is slated the evening of March 20. Other subjects, among scores to be considered during the four-day convention, include tv equipment trends, color tv receivers, tv transmitting equipment and techniques, broadcast and tv receivers, antennas and propagation, design approaches with printed wiring, "new horizons" in broadcast transmission systems, U. S. earth satellite program, medical electronics, nuclear effects on communication systems and air traffic control. Oklahoma UP Group Formed FORMATION of Oklahoma United Press Broadcasters in Lawton has been reported. Leo Morris, KSWO Lawton, presided at the organization meeting which elected an executive committee that will meet at a later date to elect officers. The committee includes T. M. Raburn, KGYN Guymon; Frosty Troy, KSWO; Bruce Palmer, KOMA-KWTV (TV) Oklahoma City; Ray Van Hooser, KNED McAlester, and Jack Morris, KTUL-KTVX (TV) Tulsa-Muskogee. Ky. Assn to Hear Chandler GOV. A. B. CHANDLER will be luncheon speaker at the March 22 meeting of the Kentucky Broadcasters Assn., to be held at the Brown Hotel, Louisville. Gov. Chandler will receive the Kentucky Mike award for service to the industry. He recently signed into law a libel bill affecting broadcasting. FCC Comr. Robert E. Lee also will speak at the banquet. KBA President Gilmore Nunn, WLAP Lexington, who is recuperating from a broken leg, is expected to attend the meeting. Music Fee Facts Wanted QUESTIONNAIRES covering the amount of money spent for music license fees have been sent all stations by NARTB to develop a reservoir of information on industry music licensing practices. Stations answering the questionnaire will be supplied total figures but individual returns will be confidential. The survey was directed by the NARTB Copyright Committee at its Feb. 14 meeting. Questionnaires are returnable March 17. Page 64 • March 12, 1956 Broadcasting • Telecasting