Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1957)

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Jones Takes Over KELP, KILT (TV) RICHARD E. JONES last week assumed Control of KELP-KILT (TV) El Paso with FCC approval, and changed the tv outlet's •all to KELP-TV. Mr. Jones along with Joseph Harris and Norman Alexander purchased the two staions from Gordon B. McLendon for a reported SI million, leaving Mr. McLendon .-ontrol of the old call letters. KILT. Ed Winton and Herb Golombeck remain is station managers for KELP tv and radio, espectively. Ludden to Direct WCBS Programs ALLEN LUDDEN. manager of program Planning and development for NBC. has ieen named program director for WCBS \e\\ York, it was announced last week by Sam J. Slate. WCBS general manager. Mr. bidden succeeds Mr. Slate as program di■ector and will assume his new post next Monday (May 13). Prior to his NBC as.ignment. Mr. Ludden served in various ;apacities in radio production for a number )f years and at one time was continuity director at WTIC Hartford. Conn. 3urris Heads KSAN Staff ROBERT C. BURRIS. sales executive with San Francisco stations, has been appointed general manager of KSAN there. He succeeds Lennox T. Cinnamond. w'ho died in a highway accident [B»T. April 22]. The new general manager formerly was on the sales staffs of KJBS and KSFO. both San Francisco. MR. BURRIS 3aul Promoted at WERE EDWARD PAUL last week was named national sales manager of WERE Cleveland, but he will continue as m e r c h a n dising manager, a post he has held since 1951. according to Richard M. Klaus, station president. Before joining WERE in 1950, Mr. Paul was news and sports director for WMRN Marian, Ohio, and before that was with WCOL Tolumbus. STATION SHORTS KFWB Los Angeles appoints CarsonRoberts Inc., same city. KAVE-TV Carlsbad, N. M., to be interconnected on CBS-TV by July 1. WBUF (TV) Buffalo, N Broadcasting MR. PAUL CHANGING of the guard at WKJG-AM-TV Fort Wayne. Ind.. is shown as VVKJG Inc. takes over from Northeastern Indiana Broadcasting Co. Principals are (1 to j): Walter Beardsley, president of Miles Laboratories and board member of WKJG Inc.; Geoffrey Wade of Wade Advertising Agency, Chicago, also a board member; John F. Dille Jr.. publisher of Elkhart Truth and president of WKJG Inc.: Edward G. Thorns, general manager of the am and tv properties, who continues in that capacity, and Clarence Schust. president of the now-dissolved Northeastern Indiana Broadcasting Co.. which sold the facilities for Si. 9 million. power to 1 mg. effective on or about Aug.l. KUAM-AM-TV Agana. Guam, has established business office in Manila. P. I. Address: 324 Natividad Bldg.. Escolta. Manila. Telephone: 3-89-68. REPRESENTATIVE APPOINTMENTS KAMQ Amarillo. Tex., will be represented nationally by Venard. Rintoul & McConnell and in South by Clarke Brown & Assoc., effective May 1. The all new 1957 TelePrompTer MOD V! imnn V TelePrompTer equipment.. Mow's ,h. «"EJtJSi consols ond ,ndUS„, Y., to increase Telecasting 31 1 West 43rd St., New York 36, N. Y. • JUdson 2-3800 HERBERT W. HOBLER. V. Pres. Sales JAMES BLAIR, tqpt. Sales Mgr. LOS ANGELES • CHICAGO • WASHINGTON, DC • PHILADELPHIA DETROIT ♦ MIAMI • TORONTO • LONDON Max 6, 1957 Paae 99