Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

You're headed in the right direction with Plough, Inc., Stations! Charles Mertz, formerly disc jockey, WTNS Cochocton, to WMRN Marion, both Ohio, as announcer and music librarian. John McCullough, formerly manager of Navy Armed Forces Radio Service in Philadelphia, to WNDU South Bend, Ind., announcing staff. Jack R. ReVoyr, formerly with WHA-AMTV Madison, Wis., to announcing staff of WTMJ-AM-TV Milwaukee. Al (Jazzbo) Collins, disc jockey, WRCA New York, to KUTV (TV) Salt Lake City, Utah, and its affiliate KALL in that city. Roger Sheldon, formerly with KGIL San Fernando, KFMU (FM) Glendale, both California, and KRHM (FM) Los Angeles, to KFMB San Diego. Bob Adams, sales manager and store manager, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Wichita, Kan., to KFH, same city, sales staff. Mack Sanders, formerly with KMA Shenandoah, Iowa, to KFH as m.c. of Chow Time. Guy H. Popham Jr., farm director of KGUL-TV Galveston, Tex., to KNOE-TV Monroe, La., service and promotion department. Howard James, formerly on news staff of WJIM Lansing and news director, WDMJTV Marquette, to WOOD-AM-TV Grand Rapids, all Michigan, news staff. Robert Hyland, general manager, KMOX St. Louis, elected to board of directors, Municipal Theatre Assn., same city. Rollie Thomas, sports director, KFI Los Angeles, shot 145 (1 over par) Sept. 29 to win senior golf championship of state of Nevada. REPRESENTATIVES ■< George C. Castleman, tv new business development manager, Peters, Griffin, Woodward, named vice president in addition to his present, post. Before joining PGW in 1955, Mr. Castleman was with CBS Spot Sales for four years and also was vice president of Bermingham, Castleman & Pierce. ■< William C. Brearley, radio sales, George P. Hollingbery Co., N. Y., named eastern sales manager. Mr. Brearley has been with Hollingbery for past six years. George B. Hager, sales staff, American Can Co., to John Blair & Co., S. F., as account executive. Don Staley, Pacific Coast manager, Weed Television, S. F., and Andrew K. Leach, tv sales service representative, NBC Network tv department, to Katz Agency, N. Y., tv sales staff. Clifford Hahne, assistant manager, KIXL Dallas, to Katz radio sales staff in that city. PROGRAM SERVICES mmmmmmmmmmmmmm David D. Lewis, United Press, Atlanta staff correspondent, appointed bureau manager of newly-opened UP bureau in Mobile, Ala. Bureau will take over coverage of southern Alabama and coordinate coverage activities in three-state gulf coast area including parts of northwest Florida and Mississippi. Mrs. Clement Brooks Botchford, in charge of personnel and assistant to comptroller, ASCAP, N. Y., died Sept. 29 after brief illness. Mrs. Botchford began her employ with ASCAP in 1919. Her duties included supervision of distribution of royalties to members. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES mmmmmrnmrnmrnm Frederick George Horan, formerly associated with Sun Oil Co., to Endorsements Inc., N. Y., as account executive. TRADE ASSNS. • Stanley Raiff, public relations consultant in San Francisco and New York, has joined NARTB public relations staff. MANUFACTURING •• ...r .. • George I. Long Jr., president, Ampex Corp, Redwood City, Calif., to ORRadio Industries Inc., Opelika, Ala., board of directors, succeeding late Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick. Woodham W. Cauley, certified public accountant, Whatley & Cauley, Opelika, Ala., to ORRadio Industries Inc., same city, as comptroller. G. W. Duckworth, manager of cathode ray and power tube market planning, RCA, named marketing manager of industrial tube products activity, electronic tube division. Other appointments: C. F. Nesslage, manager of controls and standards, cathode ray and power tube operations becomes administrator, operating financial controls; E. E. Spitzer, manager of cathode ray and power tube engineering, named engineering manager, and E. M. Woods, manufacturing manager, cathode ray and power tubes, appointed production manager. ■< William G. Fockler, previously assistant engineering manager of technical products division, Allen B. DuMont Labs, named manager of technical products engineering, succeeding Arthur J. Talamini, who resigned to join Electro Tec, South Hackensack, N. J. Hugh H. Engelman manager of advertising administration, Motorola Inc., Chicago, promoted to manager of tv advertising and sales promotion. Represented nationally by RADIO-TV REPRESENTATIVES, INC. NEW YORK . CHICAGO • BOSTON . SEATTLE ATLANTA • LOS ANGELES . SAN FRANCISCO Kansas is FREE When You Buy KMBC in Kansas City, Missouri BUY KMBC— 5,000 watts on 980 kc, to reach 2,340,560 people; $3,945,000,000 spendable income; $2,949,000,000 retail sales. GET KFRM— 5,000 watts on 550 kc— for the state of Kansas FREE! It's your bonus market of 1,927,150 population; $3,115,468,810 spendable income; $2,321,148,648 retail sales. KMBC-KFRM, the only bonus-buy radio stations(in the Heart of the Nation. For choice availabilities, call your colonel from Peters, Griffin, Woodward, Inc. DON DAVIS, President JOHN SCHILLING, Executive Vice-President GEORGE HIGGINS, V.P. and Sales Manager DICK SMITH, Manager, KMBC-KFRM KMBC o£ Kansas City KFRM /fit* the State of Kansas in the Heart of America HOOPER — PULSE — NIELSEN KOSI— S.« Forjot KOBY — See Petry Broadcasting • Telecasting October 7, 1957 • Page 123