Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

CHANNEL 4-SIGHT Yes ... be wise! When you buy television in the great Golden Spread, use Channel 4 -Sight. Over 100,000 TV sets Nearly $200,000,000 in Retail Sales Power: Visual 100 KW Aural 50 KW Antenna Height 833' above the ground KGNC-TV I CHANNEL 4 I AMARILLO, I TEXAS CONTACT ANY KATZ MAM NETWORKS MR. BUNKER MR. JAMIESON MR. SHAKESPEARE MR. WALT CBS-TV Appoints Bunker V.P.; Others Named in Changes Edmund C. Bunker, general manager of CBS-owned WXIX (TV) Milwaukee, last week was named vice president and director of station relations for CBS-TV, replacing Edward P. Shurick, who has resigned to join Blair Tv as executive vice president. Mr. Bunker's appointment is effective immediately. The change was announced by William B. Lodge, CBS-TV vice president of station relations and engineering, who also reported that Robert F. Jamieson, manager of CBSTV sales service, has been elevated to the newly-created position of manager of station contacts. Mr. Jamieson will report to Carl Ward, national manager of station relations. Mr. Bunker's replacement as general manager of WXIX will be Frank Shakespeare Jr., general sales manager since 1954 of CBS-owned WCBS-TV New York. His appointment is effective today (Monday). In turn, Mr. Shakespeare will be succeeded at CBS-TV by Norman E. Walt, an account executive for CBS-TV Spot Sales in New York. Mr. Bunker began his broadcasting career at WCSC Charleston, S. C, while a student at Charleston College. He later served as an announcer with WTOC Savannah, Ga., and in sales posts with WIS Columbia, S. C and with WCSC. From 1945-48 he was an account executive with Avery-Knodel, station representative, and from 1948-49 he served in a similar post with ABC Radio. He joined CBS-TV's sales department in 1949 and in 1952 was promoted to general sales manager of KNXT (TV) Hollywood and the Columbia Pacific Television Network. He was named general manager of WXIX in November 1954. Mr. Shakespeare began his broadcasting career in 1949 as assistant to the sales manager of WOR New York. Subsequently, he joined CBS-TV Spot Sales in New York as an account executive and in 1954 he was named general sales manager of WCBS-TV. Mr. Walt became associated with CBS-TV Spot Sales in July 1953. Earlier, he had been with KOLN-TV Lincoln, Neb., and with Harrington, Righter & Parsons, New York, in sales capacities. Mr. Jamieson joined the network in June 1951 as manager of CBS-TV sales service. Earlier he had been with the DuMont Te^vision Network as director of station rela tions, manager of operations and assistant general manager of WABD (TV) New York. At the same time, the appointments of George Zurich as manager and Robert L. Pike as assistant manager of CBS Television Sales Service were announced by William H. Hylan, CBS-TV vice president of sales administration. Mr. Zurich, who has been assistant sales service manager since April, succeeds Mr. Jamieson. Mr. Pike has been a sales service representative for the past two years. MGM Stockholder Meet Holds Up MGM-TV Conference With ABC-TV A scheduled meeting of top-level ABCTV and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Tv Div. officials, scheduled for last Monday, was postponed at the request of MGM, which is facing a special stockholders meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) in New York. That meeting may decide management control. The ABC-TV and MGM-TV meeting was to discuss a possible production tie-up for studio facilities. To be explored: properties to be filmed for ABC-TV by MGM, or use of MGM facilities by ABC-TV to film its own shows [At Deadline, Oct. 7]. The conference may be held this week. MGM President Joseph R. Vogel originally had called the special stockholders meeting in a showdown battle with insurgent Florida financier Joseph Tomlinson. a major stockholder and a board member. WKXL Is 31st Yankee. Affiliate WKXL Concord, N. H., became the 31st full-time affiliate of the Yankee regional network last week. The announcement was made by George W. Steffy, executive vice president of the station which is owned by Capitol Broadcasting Corp. The contract was signed by Joe Close, president of WKNE, a sister station in Keehe, N. H., which also is a Yankee affiliate. WDXI-TV % I JACKSON, TENNESSEE E Channel 7 = Covering | half million | people in | the mid I South | = Represented by Venard, Rintoul & McConnell, Inc. = Page 88 • October 14, 1957 Broadcasting