Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1957)

directors released at a meeting in New York last week. Radio stations and newspapers began receiving service during the past year in Rio de Janeiro. Sao Paulo and other Brazilian cities, the report said. It added that there were "numerous additions'" to the list of radio station and newspaper subscribers in other parts of South and Central America. In East Africa, the report said, arrangements were completed to begin the news service to radio stations and newspapers in the Sudan, through interception at Khartoum. The first regular basic news service broadcast by an American agency was begun to the new nation of Tunisia last Jan. 1, according to the report. During the year new bureaus were established in Juneau, Alaska; Johannesburg. South Africa, and correspondents assigned to Tunis and Saigon and domestically, to Toledo. McAllen. Tex., and Montpelier, Vt. AP paid tribute to members who provide the news agency with coverage and observed that "the increase in news coverage by AP radio members is an encouraging development in that field.*' INS Increased Tv Facilities In 1956, Annual Report Notes EXPANSION in International News Services' facilities for television stations during the past year was highlighted by Kingsbury Smith, vice president and general manager of INS, in his annual report last week. Mr. Smith singled out for mention the opening of a new processing and shipping center in Los Angeles to speed up newsfilm service to West Coast clients; the expansion of newsfilm coverage to ABC-TV for the John Daly and John Cameron Swayze daily newscasts and the recently-inaugurated 35 mm television photo services. Mr. Smith said the latter service, produced through the facilities of International News Photos, provides a daily flow of mounted transparencies on news personalities for use by television stations as "an economical adjunct." He reported that during the past year INS and INP had gained a total of 169 newclients, including radio stations. The INS television division, he said, has expanded into 17 new outlets. He added that the INSTelenews daily newsfilm service is presented on 150 stations in the U. S. and abroad, and both the weekly INS-Telenews weekly newslilm review and its sports show.T/n's Week in Sports, are now programmed on tv stations in more than 50 markets. Mr. Smith said he felt the Telenews daily newsfilm service, produced by Hearst Metrotone News, had distinguished itself for coverage of top news stories. UP Boosts Service to Stations In Past Year, Officials State DURING the past year the United Press News Service for radio and television stations had a period of "unparalleled growth and development." John J. Madigan. radio news manager, reported at UP's annual meeting in New York last week. UP Service, he said, now is delivered by leased wire and radio printer to 2.018 U. S. and foreign clients, as compared with 1.902 stations a year ago. He listed the number of UP radio clients in the U. S. as 1.837 (covering radio and tv stations), said to be an increase of 105 over the figure of a year ago. W. R. Higginbotham. television manager, reported that UP-Movietone News now services 84 clients around the world. Including network use of the newsfilm in such countries as Britain and Italy. UP-MN newscasts appear on some 150 stations in the U. S.. Canada. Latin America. Europe. Australia and Japan, according to Mr. Higginbotham. Among the added services provided by UP-MN during the past year, he said, are a 15-minute sportscast: a 15-minute script of both news and sports cued to film sent during a given week; expanded regional coverage in New England, the Midwest and Pacific Northwest. Mr. Higginbotham noted an interesting expansion of service" was UPMN's extension into Eastern Europe, with its newsfilm carried in Poland and Eastern Germany. Marcy Quits NBC Sales Post To Join New Weaver Venture LEWIS M. MARCY has resigned as director of sales development and presentations for NBC to join Program Service, the new television organization the formation of which recently was announced bv Svlvester L. (Pat) Weaver Jr. [B»T. April 15]. Mr. Marcy will join Mr. Weaver's new enterprise May 13 in an executive sales capacity. Since February 1951, Mr. Marcy served successfully at NBC as supervisor of television sales planning, project manager of development, sales development analyst and supervisor of daytime sales. He played an important role in the successful re-building of the NBC daytime sales position. Prior to his NBC service, Mr. Marcy for five years was project manager and acting secretary to the board of directors of the Advertising Research Foundation. He earlier had been public relations director for the Cooperative Analvsis of Broadcasting (CAB). Smith Named by C-C Tv Firm PETER J. SMITH, formerly manager of NBC Tele-Sales, has been appointed vice president of Closed-Circuit Telecasting System Inc. Mr. Smith's appointment is part of an expansion program for the new closedcircuit company organized in December 1956. Mr. Smith supervised all NBC color closed-circuit telecasts for more than two years. Before joining NBC he was producerdirector for Fuller & Smith & Ross three vears. WAY OUT HUNT! ESTON J NIELSEN : NCS #2 1956 j ► <y PENETRATION OF COUNTIES^ [ /o IN COVERAGE | WSAZ-TV STA. B STA.< y 100»„ COVERAGE •) 1 y COUNTIES A. 1 \ 1 1 ! [ MORE THAN 75% AC Y COVERAGE COUNTIES *XJ 21 5 j [ MORE THAN 50»0 T COVERAGE COUNTIES jQ 30 [total counties <q coverage 50 i ARB: 8 out of TOP 12 "February 1957 CHANNEL M HUNTINGTON-CHARLESTON, W. VA. Affiliated with Radio Stations WSAZ, Huntington & WKAZ. Charleston LAWRENCE H. ROGERS, PRESIDENT Represented by The Katz Agency VOICE OF THE PEOPLE WSRS GREATER CLEVELAND'S NUMBER 1 STATION SRS "Radio-Active" MBS Broadcasting • Telecasting April 29, 1957 • Page 107