Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

STATIONS CONTINUED ductions, owner of KTLA (TV) Los Angeles. KTLA on Oct. 1 launched a series of horror movie telecasts under the generic title, Nightmare, with a broadcast of "Frankenstein," made 26 years ago with Boris Karloff and Miss Clarke as stars. In connection with the tv program, Miss Clarke charges, KTLA employed actress Ottola Nesmith, who impersonated Miss Clarke in such manner as to imply that she is "a broken-down, has-been actress, poverty stricken, slovenly attired and ill," thus damaging Miss Clarke's professional reputation. Sctlk Named to Corinthian Post Robert H. Salk, for two years director of sales for Screen Gems Inc., has been appointed director of programming of Corinthian Broadcasting Corp., according to C. Wrede Petersmeyer, president. Prior to his association at SG, Mr. Salk was associated for 10 years with the Katz Agency in programming, film buying, research and sales. Corinthian stations include KOTV (TV) Tulsa, KGUL-TV Galveston, WANE-AM-TV Fort Wayne and WISH-AM-TV Indianapolis. MR. SALK DATELINES WASHINGTON— NBC-TV, after months of preparation, utilized over 100 technicians and program staffers to televise the arrival of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Thursday morning and the highlights of their visit here. NBC had 1 1 cameras along the arrival parade route, with one stationed atop the Lincoln Memorial. Four NBC-TV staffers described the scene: Merrill Mueller, Jinx Falkenburg, Bill Henry and David Brinkley. For NBC Radio, narrators were Bryson Rash, Ben Grauer and Miss Falkenburg. NBC-TV circuits fed the picture live to the Canadian Broadcasting Co. MOUNT VERNON — WMIX Mount Vernon, 111., and cooperating hams have collected and broadcast a series of taped Sputnik signals, showing changes from hour to hour and day to day since the satellite was launched Oct. 4. Chief Engineer Ed Howell and radio amateur Bill Lance picked up the news break from nonbroadcast facilities Oct. 4, before media began playing the story. They immediately set up monitoring facilities and established an aroundthe-clock monitor system with hams. HARTFORD — A 16-year-old ham operator, Beldon Morgan of Glastonbury, Conn., taped Sputnik signals Oct. 6 purely "for the Newsworthy News Coverage by Radio and Tv fun of it." But he happened to mention it over his home wireless to a ham friend, Bob Eaton, son of Tom Eaton, news director of WTIC Hartford, Conn. Mr. Eaton and son lost no time driving to Glastonbury to pick up the recording and returned it to WTIC for the first available newscast. BOSTON — WBZ Boston covered the Russian satellite launching from the International Geophysical year angle, at the same time taking part in an IGY sighting. The Air Force used WBZ to send a signal which activated three cameras as Sputnik passed over the Cambridge Research Center. After doing its part, WBZ broadcast interviews with experts, who described the tri-cornered photography. WICHITA — A direct report of an early naked-eye sighting of Sputnik over Alaska went out over KFH Wichita, Kan. George Doyle, station news director, telephoned Dr. Gordon Little at the U. of Alaska geophysical station near Fairbanks Oct. 7 for a recorded version of how his staff tracked the man-made moon. MOBILE — Two off-duty staffers of WALATV Mobile, Ala., brought in the sound of Sputnik on their home radio rigs and telephoned WALA radio to put the signals on the air. The local newspaper credited them with being the first in Mobile to make radio contact with the satellite. PHILADELPHIA — The mobile reporting unit of WFIL Philadelphia last week joined a pre-dawn raid on a local narcotics ring. By the time WFIL came on the air at 5:30 a.m., it was able to broadcast highlights direct from the scene. When its sister outlet, WFIL-TV, came on at 8 a.m., film was all set to run on Breakfast Time. PITTSBURGH — KDKA here set up a shop in City Hall to monitor live negotiations of a crippling transit strike and conducted onthe-air news conferences with Mayor David L. Lawrence and officials from both management and labor. The station said it provided the only first-hand coverage. MILWAUKEE — The World Series may be only a memory for most of the U. S., but not for Milwaukee and WTMJ-AM-TV there, which fed NBC Radio and NBC-TV plus some 25 additional radio stations in the U. S. and Canada. WTMJ-TV reported last week mail is still arriving on its camera work and other coverage. The Milwaukee station had a 24-man crew at the ball part at 6:30 a.m. each morning of games while both stations originated numerous feature feeds in addition to games. Locally, WTMJ-TV considered its biggest production problem that of covering the return of the Braves the night after the final game and used multiple film crews to shoot five-minute "takes" in addition to a 45-minute live show. WBBM Chicago followed up its coverage Programming is more v-a-r-i-e-d with the big "P" SECTION of the SESAC Transcribed Library • Polkas, obereks, czardas, laendlers, rheinlanders and mazurkas. • Complete program notes. • Saleable script service. • All at its best at low monthly fees. Write, right now . . . SESAC INC. The Coliseum Tower 10 Columbus Circle New York 19, N. Y. Page 110 • October 21, 1957 Broadcasting