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I ernment appreciate it because it was a very important change." Gov. Stratton also lauded Mr. Haverlin for his contributions to the State of Illinois' historical library. Harold Safford, WLS Chicago, served as official greeter for the governor. In Chicago last Friday. Carl Fox, comanager, KYTV (TV) Springfield, Mo., spoke on "Behind the Scenes in Your Studio" and traced the development of the station's production staff over the past four years in a geographical area with untrained personnel. He related that the station trained young people interested in such work and absorbed many into the station's operation, with each member equipped to perform a multiplicity of production functions. Mr. Fox said the station tries to make its sets "real" by using actual shrubbery, flowers, a mail box, a locker room for the sportscaster etc. He also said the station has made effective use of various techniques, such as rear screen projection, mirrors and various camera angles. Barry Gray Show Syndicated NATIONAL syndication of the Barry Gray Show, a celebrity interview program currently seven nights a week on WMCA New York, has been announced by Sandy Howard Productions, New York. The Howard organization will handle both recording, packaging and sales of the show, featuring Mr. Gray, a columnist for The New York Post. the portable recorder you specified the new AMPEX 601 duction; James J. Killian, program manager WAAM-TV Baltimore, traffic control; Glover Delaney, vice president and general manager, WHEC-TV Rochester, film programming; John Q. Quigley, operations manager, KAKE-TV Wichita, public service programming, and Marshall Pengra, general manager, KLTV (TV) Tyler, Texas, local programming. In Chicago, at the Sheraton-Blackstone, Ward L. Quaal, vice president and general manager of WGN-AM-TV that city, was in charge of Thursday morning sessions on program and promotion, station integration with the community and public service topics. Carl Haverlin, BMI president, presided over the two-day clinic and also was Thursday luncheon speaker, with Illinois Gov. William Stratton, addressing the Friday luncheon. George Comte, manager of radio-tv for the Miliwaukee Journal stations (WTMJAM-TV), warned the program clinic that "instruments of communication are worthless unless the public tunes in" and that "when people aren't watching and aren't listening, we aren't being of public service." He reported on policy at his stations whereby public service is integrated in all phases of commercial operation and programming. "We must offer public service material the public desires or at least that the public will accept," he asserted, citing various fields of activity. He indicated the practice of placing public service fare in sustaining time periods does not itself assure it will meet the standards of public interest. Mr. Comte claimed that with pre-audience building and established personalities, public service messages can be integrated in regular programs "to advantage." He noted that talks for fund-raising and other drives brought greater results when shortened from separate 15 minute segments to five-minute interviews within commercial shows claiming good listener or viewer loyalty. WTMJAM-TV handles all major-fund campaigns in such fashion, he reported. William Fay, vice president of Transcontinent Television Corp. and general manager of WROC Rochester, N. Y., reported on his proposed national citizens council to advise broadcasters. He urged midwest tv operators to compile evidence of promotion projects related to public service and pass them along to the FCC and to meet regularly with clergymen, educators, lawyers, parent teacher organizations and other groups. The contention that the "true magic of television" is not realized in routine network or film fare but in station-community integration through local news, weather, sports and special events was held by Otto Brandt, vice president and general manager of KING-AM-TV Seattle. He reported on activities in those fields. Gov. Stratton told BMI delegates: "You have made us sharpen our government skills and shorten our speeches" and credited the tv industry with stimulating public desire for briefer oratory. He lauded radio-tv as helping to achieve a major reapportionment of legislative districts in Illinois and observed, "we in gov Broadcasting • Telecasting The new 601 combines all the superb performance characteristics of the famed Ampex 600 plus these new professional features designed to fit your professional recording needs exactly: New Low Impedance Output . . . 600 ohms, 1.23 volts. Balanced or unbalanced (from tapes recorded at program level). 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