Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1957)

STATIONS MUSE KNIEST ZELLNER SALONITES LOWEN FIVE MEN have been added to the staff of the Katz Agency, national station representative, three assigned to New York and two to the new St. Louis office. James Edward Muse, formerly commercial manager of WGEM-TV Quincy, 111., joins the St. Louis television sales staff. Thomas E. Kniest, formerly radio salesman with KXOK St. Louis, has been added to the Katz radio sales staff there. Gordon George Zellner, previously account executive with WATV (TV) Newark, N. J., will work with the New York television sales staff. Stephen M. Salonites, formerly with the media department of Benton & Bowles, joins the New York tv sales development staff, and Jesse Lowen, formerly with WM AZ-AM-TV Macon, Ga., is added to the promotion-research department there. WIP to Get Birthday Citation From City, Chamber of Commerce WIP PHILADELPHIA today (Monday) starts a week-long celebration of its 35 th anniversary, to be highlighted Friday by a luncheon at the Barclay Hotel, where the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Philadelphia will present a special award to Benedict Gimbel Jr., president-general manager of WIP. The citation salutes WIP's "unique contributions to the economic and civic progress of the region." It will be presented by Alfred Blasband, chairman of the chamber's special projects committee, and Fredric R. Mann, director of commerce for the city. Featured luncheon speakers will be Comr. Robert E. Lee of the FCC and Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth. WIP, born in the corner of the piano dedepartment of Gimbel Bros, store, officially marked its 35th anniversary on March 16, when an atomic battery at the International Atomic Exposition & Nuclear Congress at Philadelphia's Convention Hall was used to trigger the station's signal. ARB proves ••• KFSA-TV your BEST buy in Fort Smith Arka n s percentage of tv homes station viewed station viewed MOST before 6 pm MOST after 6 prr KFSA-TV (UHF) Station B (VHF) Station C (VHF) 59 17 12 63 21 9 ARB 1957 METROPOLITAN AREA COVERAGE STUDY (A to Z) The only SUCCESSFUL UHF in the Great Southwest Represenied by John E, Pearson Company Fort Smith Arkansas Affiliated Management KFSA Radio ♦ Ft. Smith Times-Record • Ft. Smith Southwest American Chicago Radio-Tv Newsmen Ask City Hall Facilities REQUEST for inclusion of permanent broadcast facilities in new Chicago City Council chambers, filed with Mayor Richard J. Daley by radio-tv station news directors, is being considered by a City Hall special committee. Construction of booths in City Hall, which was damaged by a fire March 21, would permit radio-tv-newsreel coverage of council activities without interference and eliminate one of the more frequent objections raised against media — the presence of cameras, microphones and other equipment, according to station news chiefs. Modern electronic reporting would be better served along lines of the example set by the United Nations' General Assembly, it was contended. Chicago stations generally have been unsuccessful in getting permission to cover council proceedings in recent years. Sam J. Slate Succeeds Ward As WCBS-TV General Manager SAM J. SLATE, director of programs at WCBS New York for 5Vi years, has been named general manager of the CBS Radio station, it was announced last week by Jules Dundes, CBS Radio vice president in charge of station administration. Mr. Slate succeeds Carl S. Ward, promoted to manager of station relations, CBS-TV. Prior to joining WCBS in 1951, Mr. Slate was program director for British Broadcasting Corp.'s New York office for six years, producing shows for both the domestic and overseas service of BBC. Before that Mr. Slate's work included radio public relations work during World War II and earlier program promotion and merchandising for Phillips H. Lord Inc., program packager. MR. SLATE Page 110 • April 22, 1957 | Williams Heads WSM-AM-TV News 1 BILL WILLIAMS, morning editor, WSM Nashville, and newscaster for WSM-TV, has been named director of news and special events of WSMAM-TV. He succeeds Harold Baker, who becomes news director of WFGA-TV Jacksonville, Fla., May 1. Mr. Williams, in the radio-tv news field for 12 years, is son of the late Billy Williams, former NBC writer and manager of KOA Denver. Broadcasting • Telecasting MR. WILLIAMS