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tion Oct. 1, with enough left to cover poll headquarters and a suburban campaign. With direct lines to voting centers, WERE was prepared to report an early wind-up which marked the landslide victory of incumbent Mayor Anthony Celebrezze.
For its trouble, WERE received an unqualified testimonial from Ben C. Green, chairman of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, who said, "While WERE has always done a good job of election reporting, it provided the most complete and thorough coverage of this year's primary election, with direct lines to the various headquarters. WERE was the only station with a direct line to the Board of Elections." WERE salesmen who had news experience were enlisted to augment news regulars for the primary job.
ST. LOUIS — While KXOK's Bob Shea was at home relaxing, he heard an explosion and rushed to investigate. As a result, the station reports it was able to give a running news story of service and information to its audience during a $56,000 fire-explosion at the Imperial Refineries Corp. in Olivette, Mo., Mr. Shea phoned KXOK's newsroom and gave an account of the disaster for immediate broadcast, long before the local papers were on the street, KXOK says.
WSAN Transmitter Shot At
Reuel Musselman, joint operator of WSAN Allentown, Pa., had a close brush with a bullet Sept. 29 but escaped injury. He was filling in for a vacationing operator at the WSAN transmitter when a bullet entered the window over his head at 1:50 a.m. The shot was fired from a car which pulled away quickly afterward. Mr. Musselman said he thought his assailant intended only to frighten him.
WITH FCC approval of the merger of Transcontinent Television Corp. and the WGR Corp. out of the way [B»T, Sept. 30], Paul A. Schoellkopf Jr. (1), Transcontinent's chairman of the board, and George Goodyear, WGR chairman, shake on the deal. Mr. Goodyear will be elected to the Trans j continent board under terms of the | agreement, which involved a consideration "in excess of $5 million." Transcontinent stations are WROCTV Rochester, WGR-AM-TV Buffalo, both N. Y., and 50% of WSVA-AMFM-TV Harrisonburg, Va.
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