Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

WESTERN MARKET. Immediate availability. 640 million acres, cultivated by 33-year-old radio station. Ideal for increasing sales in 302 counties of 12 states. Market furnished with 4 million year 'round listeners. Purchase includes top network programs and popular local shows. A really outstanding time buy! Represented nationally by HENRY I. CHRISTAL CO., INC. KO DENVER One of America's great radio stations 50,000 Watts 850 Kc n/57 MY MOMMY LISTENS TCT^Vj KITE More Mommies and Papas in St3u* flAtfanUQ-' Listen Daily to KiTE Than to Any Other Station* dcs #2 Call Avery-Knodel, Inc. PEOPLE CONTINUED TWO vignettes illustrating a tour of Radio Free Europe installations: Robert K. Richards (1), public relations counsel for NARTB, records impressions for broadcast over RFE; Donald H. McGannon (r), president of Westinghouse Broadcasting Corp., receives a replica of the Berlin Freedom Bell, symbol of the Crusade for Freedom, from West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. Messrs. Richards and McGannon were among 60 Americans on the RFE tour, sponsored by Crusade for Freedom, the private American organization which supports RFE broadcasts to five Iron-Curtain countries. Merle Edwards, sales manager, WMIN Minneapolis-St. Paul, named general manager. Harold Greenberg, salesman, succeeds him. -< Jack Cosgrove, local sales manager, WTCN Minneapolis, promoted to general sales manager. Mr. Cosgrove has been in radio since 1936 and with WTCN for past three years. Jack Kelly, formerly manager, WRFW Eau Claire, Wis., to WBIZ, same city, as sales manager. He is also handling several personality shows. Robert F. Baltrano, formerly in sales departments of WWCA Gary, Ind., and KVOA-AM-TV Tucson, Ariz., to WHFC Chicago as sales manager. ■< Richard H. Gravett, ac *f!^pliwu count executive, KNBC San Francisco, named sales manager. Before joining KNBC in 1955, Mr. Gravett served on sales staffs of KXKX San Jose, Calif., and KJBS and KFRC, both San Francisco. Keith R. Oliver and George F. Hancin to WJIM-AM-TV Lansing, Mich., as sales manager and promotion-publicity director, respectively. ■< Proctor Jones, assistant sales director, Yankee Network, promoted to national sales manager of WNAC-AM-TV BostonLawrence, Mass., and Yankee Network Div. of RKO Teleradio Pictures. He joined Yankee Network in 1950. Dan Curtin, formerly in sales department, WTRY Albany, N. Y., and Robert B. Griffin, formerly public information officer, City of L. A., to KWKW Pasadena, Calif., as sales manager and public relations director, respectively. Carson Rennie, account executive, WQAM Miami, named local sales manager. Bernie Whitaker, sales staff, WSTS-TV Winston-Salem, N. C, to WRAL-TV Raleigh, N. C, as regional and local sales manager and Fred Uzzle, director, WRAL-TV, promoted to production supervisor. John Leslie, sales staff, WEEK-TV Peoria, 111., named local and regional sales manager. Al Evans, account executive, WOKJ Jackson, Miss., named manager succeeding William Anderson who joins KOKA Shreveport, La., as manager. Keith Kerby, radio-tv consultant, to KDOT Reno, Nev., as manager, succeeding Naum Healy who has resigned. ^Grahame Richards, production director, KOWH Omaha, Neb., to Intermountain Network as regional director of programming for seven of its stations (KALL Salt Lake City; KIMN Denver; KLO Ogden, Utah; KGEM Boise, Idaho; KLIX Twin Falls, Idaho; KOPR Butte, Mont., and KM ON Great Falls, Mont.). Warner Tidemann, formerly program manager, WJBC Bloomington, 111., to WBLNTV, same city, as news-program director. WBLN-TV is now off air but is expected to BUY SOUND-FACTOR PLAINT WSRS GREATER CLEVELAND'S NUMBER 1 STATION SRS "Radio-Active" MB S Page 108 • October 28, 1957 Broadcasting