Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1957)

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FOR SALE FOR SALE — (Cont'd) RADIO Stations For sale: Kilowatt am in northwest college town. Full price $50,000.00, $10,000.00 down, balance terms. Write Box 798K, B»T. Need additional financing to apply for vhf television in choice location. Will be at NARTB Convention. Box 905E, B»T. For sale in Texas: Absentee owners willing to sell 250 watt fulltime independent in fast growing industrial and oil center. $25,000 down and 5 year terms. Contact owners at Box 939E, B«T. Kentucky small market station showing profit. $80,000. Terms. Paul H. Chapman Company, 84 Peachtree, Atlanta. Another station in this general area showing smaller profits and priced lower. Outstanding VHF Television. Southwest. A single station market, not dominated by any other station. Nearest competitive TV more than 110 miles distant. Owner states market in excess 140,000. Dry, healthful year-round climate. Offered for private sale to qualified principals. Details available upon written requests only. Requires $50,000 cash down. Ralph Erwin. Broker. Tulsa. Southwest AM. Diversified market 70,000. Combination operation. Year-round aquatic resort area. Present owner retiring. Requires $25,000 cash down. No information by telephone. Ralph Erwin. Licensed Professional Broker. 1443 South Trenton. Tulsa. The Norman Company, 510 Security Bldg., Davenport, Iowa. Sales, purchases, appraisals, handled with care and discretion, based on operating our own stations. Write now for our free bulletin of outstanding radio and tv buys throughout the United States. Jack L. Stoll & Associates, 6381 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. Equipment RCA TT-5A high band transmitter, factory converted to air cooling. Box 263E, B«T. lkw fm Western Electric 503-B2 transmitter; Hewlett Packard modulation and frequency monitor; RCA ISO-coupler; 320 feet 1% inch coaxial cable; GE four bay antenna. Equipment now in service. Box 849E, B»T. RCA BTA-5F 5000 watt am transmitter complete with two sets of tubes, 5 years old. $7,950.00. Box 893E, B-T. Moving to transmitter! Will sell Gates RDC-10 remote control unit, two years old, for $900.00 cash! Contact Hugh Neeld, KERC, Eastland, Texas. For sale: One General Electric NKW fm amplifier, model 4BF3A1, with four GL 5518 tubes. Price in Sacramento: $2,800.00. Also, one Collins 37M4 side mount ring antenna. Price : $700.00. For information contact KGMS, Hotel Sacramento, California. For sale: Collins 21 A broadcast transmitter . . . good condition. KLPM, Minot, North Dakota. For sale — used 1850-^ iconoscope tubes. Still have plenty of operating hours left, if you are not too critical. $25.00 each, F.O.B. L. A. Pierce, WBBM-TV, Chicago 11, Illinois. 375 ft. Blaw-Knox self supporting tower. CAA lighting consisting of 2 Code beacons and 8 hazard lights. Also 8-bay W.E. clover-leaf fm antenna. Now standing. Excellent condition. Available immediately. Will consider any reasonable offer as is or dismantled and bundled. WDBJ-FM, P.O. Box 150, Roanoke, Virginia. DuMont 247 'scope. Daven h-693 att. net. Fairchild 539-G disc recorder. Sorenson 5 kw electronic regulator. Int. Diesel 10 kw gas engineer generator. Comm. Prod. #46 auto dryair. REL 646 fm receiver. W.E. 54A 6 section cloverleaf. RCA BF12B bay pylon. Guy C. Pauer, WEJL, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Mobile broadcast studio. Converted airline bus. Completely equipped. Reliable range 20 miles. WEOK, Poughkeepsie, New York. Mobile recording and sound truck. 1956 Volkswagen panel truck with Onan 2 kw 60 cy generator (pushbutton start), Vornado 3,i ton air conditioner, Rek-O-Kut B-16H turntable with Pickering arm and holes drilled for Livingstone stereo-binaural arm, Berlant BR-1 tape recorder, 96 pair broadcast patch bay with patch cords, fluorescent lighting, acoustical tile ceiling. Truck insulated with fiberglass and above equipment is installed in angle iron frames but without audio or power wiring. The value of the equipment alone, not including partial installation already completed, is over $4,000. Will accept first offer over $3,150. Russell Cowles, 2318 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Equipment 1 Gates BC-1J transmitter been in use sixteen months and 1 new Gates BC-5P transmitter with two 1270 crystals and two 960 crystals never been used just tried. Prefer Collins transmitters. Write or call D. C. Stephens, Prestonburg, Kentucky, Telephone 2716. WANTED TO BUY Stations Will purchase all or part interest in local or regional station or CP. No brokers. Write fully in confidence. Box 904E, B-T. Equipment 10 kw fm transmitter — preferably Western Electric in good condition. Also need recording lathe — state age, price and condition first letter. Box 930E, B'T. General Electric 3kw fm amplifier with power supply. State year, condition and price. Box 940E, B«T. Fm frequency and modulation monitor. Must be unmodied and in good operating condition. M. D. Buchen, KFSG, Los Angeles, California. Fm transmitter, 1-3-5-10 kw, associate equipment Edwin Kennedy, WILM, Wilmington, Delaware. 250 watt transmitter, speech console, peak limiting amplifier, turntables, microphones. Good condition. Harry Layman, 3132 North 15th Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona. Wanted immediately, 50,000 watt used transmitter. Complete details, price, terms, make, age, condition. Also wanted 2 360-ft. towers. Write Box 8, Beverly Hills, California. INSTRUCTION FCC first phone in 12 weeks. Home study or resident training. Our schools are located in Hollywood, California, and Washington, D. C. For free booklet, write Grantham School of Electronics, Desk H-B, 1505 N. Western Avenue, Hollywood 27, California. FCC first phone license. Start immediately. Guarantee coaching. Northwest Radio & Television School. Dept. B, 1627 K Street, N. W., Washington, D .C. FCC first phone license in six weeks. Guaranteed instruction by master teacher. Phone FLeetwood 2-2733. Elkins Radio License School, 3605 Regent Drive, Dallas, Texas. RADIO Help Wanted Salesmen WANTED By Radio Station CHUM Toronto, Canada Salesman who can sell time to Retailers. Toronto, Canada, is a market of one and a half million and is served by four local stations. CHUM— 1050 kc is now a 1,000 watt daytime station but is switching to a 24-hour operation at 2,500 watts May 1st next. A good salesman who will work can make real money in this market. Apply by letter, to Edd Harris, Radio Station CHUM, 250 Adelaide West, Toronto 1, Canada. Give age, experience, marital status, and other information. SALESMAN Experienced, dependable National Radio Salesman wanted by leading 50 KW — Clear Channel station in Midwest. Excellent base salary plus a realistic incentive plan. Experience in National Sales and record of sales performance are of primary importance. Send resume with photo to Box 921E, B'T Help Wanted— (Cont'd) Announcers NEGRO DJ— SALESMAN Progressive station in major midwest market with large Negro population looking for well experienced DISC JOCKEY who can sell and service his own air time. Must be forceful air-personality, good salesman, working hard long hours. Experience in announcing and selling essential. Opportunities unlimited — right man can earn over $15,000. Mail full particulars and audition tape to Box 911E, B-T J MORNING MAN WANTED * Air salesman, family man with good habits, f knowledge of pop music and experience. * Civic-minded personality preferred. Rush J tape and picture, plus expected starting * salary to Ray Starr, Radio Station WJAN, * Spartanburg, S. C. Technical ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★A* £ ENGINEER * £ First class engineer for routine mainte jf -fc nance of 250 watt station plus servicing of 4. ■jc wired music accounts and supervision of ■fc installation of new wired music accounts, jf M $100 salary plus car allowance. Send appli * ■¥ cation to Jt + Box 956E, B-T * ★★*★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★*★★★★★★★★★★ Situations Wanted AT CROSSROADS— WHICH WAY? Managerial, sales and/or Talent 14 years experience in radio and TV both local and network. Emcee, Producer and Packager. 7 years in radio and 7 years in television. Desire permanent future with a progressive station or station group that affords opportunity to grow. Finest references. Presently situated in Chicago. Will happily go where future lies. College, married, 31. Bos 908E, B«T. ADVERTISERS-AGENCIES Help Wanted TV AD MANAGER Nat'l cosmetic infr. located in N. Y. seeks man with thorough knowledge and experience in all aspects of spot TV — time buying, mkt. research, station statistics, script writing and film production. State experience and salary desired. Box 938E, B*T COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER Outstanding opportunity for man experienced in communications range from 2 to 30 megacycles. Power from 250 watts to 50 KW. Permanent. Advancement. Enjoy the opportunities of small midwest city. Send complete details and recent photo to Personnel Director, Gates Radio Company, Quincy, Illinois. Broadcasting • Telecasting March 18, 1957 • Page 115