Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1957)

STATIONS CONTINUED IT TAKES TULSA! 'WAMPUM" A BILLION DOLLAR MARKET Anyone for a billion dollars? It can be had by alert advertisers who realize the tremendous effective buying power of northeastern Oklahoma. Your key to this treasure chest is . . . KVOO-TV. Tulsa County alone is a s$500-million market, and Sales Management rates Tulsa both a better quality and a better productive market than either Boston or Baltimore! Yes, it's there for you . . . through Channel 2. When do you start? KV channel For current ova contact any off ilobilities f ] Ffice of BLAIR -TV warnings, gathering hundreds of rescue boats through direct appeals and coordinating relief reports. Staffers stayed on duty for double stretches. General Manager Robert Hyland personally directed spot coverage from flooded areas in suburban Valley Park and Sylvan Beach, broadcasting appeals for clothing, shelter and volunteers. In another suburb, Lemay, KMOX efforts helped" locate 38 tanks of explosive propane gas, for which St. Louis County police acknowledged KMOX's help. Other official commendations and private letters of thanks continue to pour in, the station reports. In the course of the week, 21,000 requests came in for a special tornado instruction card KMOX published after initial storms on Tuesday. ASCAP Members File Suit Against Owner of WRAY FOUR members of ASCAP have filed suit for copyright infringement against M. R. Lankford, owner of WRAY Princeton, Ind. They allege that copyrighted songs were performed by the station without authorization. The songs involved in the suit are: "True Love" by Cole Porter (plaintiff. Buxton Hill Music Corp.); "Well, Did You Evah?" by Cole Porter (plaintiff, Chappell & Co.); "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers (plaintiff, T. B. Harms Co.); "September in the Rain" by Al Dubin and Harry Warren (plaintiff, Remick Music Corp.); "To Be Loved by You" by loan Whitney, Alex Kramer and Hy Zaret (plaintiff, Remick Music Corp.). The plaintiffs are asking the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana to restrain the defendant from publicly performing the songs in the future and to award damages of not less than $250 for each unauthorized performance, together with court costs and attorneys' fees. Koessler to Be WPST-TV Manager WALTER M. KOESSLER, for the past three years managing director of WGBSTV Miami and veteran of 22 years in radio and television, has been appointed station manager of WPSTTV Miami, it was announced by George T. Baker, station president, last week. WPSTTV, ch. 10, will go on the air Aug. 1 as an ABC prime affiliate, broadcasting with maximum 316 kw from its 1,000 foot tower. H-R Tv is the national representative. XEM-TV Opens Sales Office A NEW Mexican tv station, ch. 3, XEMTV Mexicali, scheduled to start broadcasting on Aug. 15, has established sales offices in the Hotel Barbara Worth in El Centro, Calif., as Imperial Telecasting Co. Bob Kelley, former sales manager of KIVA-TV Yuma, Ariz., has been named general man MR. KOESSLER ager of XEM-TV, which expects to cover the Imperial, Mexicali, Yuma and Cochilla Valleys in California, Arizona and the Mexican states of Baja California and Sonora. Harlan G. Oakes & Assoc. has been appointed XEM-TV representative on the West Coast; National Time Sales will represent the station in the East and Midwest. The station is reportedly seeking an affiliation with a U. S. tv network. MR. KILPATRICK MR. GARTEN Page 88 June 24, 1957 Kilpatrick, Garten Promoted In Realignment at WSAZ-TV IN a realignment of operational functions at WSAZ-TV Huntington, W. Va., Leroy E. Kilpatrick has been appointed vice president and operations manager and C. Thomas Garten commercial manager. Mr. Kilpatrick has been vice president in charge of engineering since 1956. He joined WSAZ-AM 15 years ago as chief engineer, was instrumental in the construction of WSAZ-TV in 1948. In his new capacity he will be in full charge of daily operations of the television station. Reporting to him will be the heads of the program, engineering and accounting departments. Mr. Garten has been commercial manager and assistant general manager of WSAZ-AM. He joined the station in 1943. As commercial manager of WSAZ-TV he will have full charge of the promotion and sales departments, including the functions of advertising, publicity and merchandising. Mr. Garten is president of the West Virginia Broadcasters Assn. Both Messrs. Kilpatrick and Garten will report to Lawrence H. Rogers II, president of WSAZ Inc. WJJC Hits Air Today in Georgia WJJC Commerce, Ga., goes on the air today, operating on 1270 kc with daytime power of 1,000 and specializing in musicnews-sports and local community programs. The station is licensed to Albert S. Hardy, publisher of the Commerce News, and Grady Cooper is general manager. Foster, Creed Open Rep Firm FOSTER & CREED, regional radio-television stations representative firm, will begin operation luly 1 with headquarters in the Statler Office Bldg. in Boston, according to Robert C. Foster, owner of R. C. Foster Co.. and William A. Creed, vice president and manager of the Boston office of The Walker Representation Co. Inc. Broadcasting • Telecasting