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*420,000 TV Homes — 1956 N.C.S. No. 2
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WBBM-TV CHICAGO staffers reportedly created quite a stir with their elegant attire when they covered the opening affair of the Chicago society season for the station's CBS News special show. The occasion was the Consular Ball at the Hotel Conrad Hilton. Pictured here is WBBM-TV Women's Editor Lee Phillip, wearing a $300 evening gown, and sound engineer Bill Tyler (1) and cameraman Wesley Marks who are not exactly in their usual newsreel attire.
nouncer, Sandra Roth, tv traffic, resigns.
James B. Luck, general manager, WTVB Coldwater, Mich., to WOWO Fort Wayne, Ind., as public service director.
Joe Carpenter, copywriter, Carl Camenisch Adv., Louisville, Ky., to WAVE-TV, same city, as continuity director.
William D. Alford, assistant farm director, WLW Cincinnati, Ohio, to WMT Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as farm director.
Marty Roberts, disc jockey, WCKY Cincinnati, Ohio, to WDZ Decatur, 111., as farm director.
Walt Kavanagh, newscaster, KFAB Omaha, Neb., promoted to news director.
Jim Gerdes, engineer, WNBQ (TV) Chicago, to KHOL-TV Kearney, Neb., in similar capacity.
Lee Jensen, announcer, WHBY Appleton, Wis., named news editor, succeeding John Flynn who joins WBAY-TV Green Bay, Wis., news staff. Ken Farnsworth, WDUZ Green Bay, and Bob Baum join WHBY as announcers.
Winston Body, formerly with Houston newspaper, to KTBC-AM-TV Austin, Tex., as assistant news editor. Pat Fitzpatrick, U. of Texas, to KTBC-TV sales staff. Kay Woods, district promotion manager, Swin-Bak Corp., and Jess Glasshoff join KTBC as continuity writer and announcer, respectively.
Don Maclean, Washington (D. C.) Daily News reporter and feature writer, to WWDC Washington as weekend news editor.
Sheldon Karland, news writer at KNXT(TV) Los Angeles and former research editor of station's Eye-to-Eye interview series, resigned.
Jack Chaffee, assistant buyer, Macy's, S.F., to KFRC, same city, as national sales representative, succeeding James A. Ingram who joins Headley-Reed Co., station representatives.
William E. Devlin, advertising representative, Public Relations Institute, N. Y., to WCAX-TV Burlington, Vt., as central Vermont and eastern New York regional representative.
Doris Curda, department store advertising manager, Tacoma, Wash., to KTNT-TV, same city, as promotion-publicity writer.
John F. Beckman, announcer, WSJS-TV Winston-Salem, N. C, to WFGA-TV Jacksonville, Fla., in similar capacity.
Jess Barker, motion picture actor, signed by WCFL Chicago for daily 60-minute musical program.
Phil Bowman, formerly personality at KMOX St. Louis, Mo., to WMAQ Chicago as m.c. of late morning program.
Bob January, announcing staff, WISH-AMTV Indianapolis, to WSRS Cleveland as m.c. of Contact.
Hugh Roberts, disc jockey, formerly with WITH and WCAO Baltimore, Md., to WWJ Detroit as m.c. of his own show.
Jim McShane, formerly program director, WEEK Peoria, 111., to WBBM Chicago as disc jockey.
Eddie Williams, singer, to WBAP-TV Fort
Worth, Tex., as star of his own show.
Larry Craig, engineer, WTVJ (TV) Miami, named shipping receiving building maintenance and properties supervisor.
John E. Mayasich, who recently completed two years service in U. S. Army, to KSTP Minneapolis sales staff.
Franklin G. Bouwsma, operations committee, WTVS (TV) Detroit, and tv program director at Wayne State U., same city, named executive secretary of Detroit Educational Television Foundation.
Ruth Mime, public service director, KFMGTV San Diego, author of recently published novel Tv Girl Friday which has been published by Atlantic-Little-Brown Co.
Howard E. Stark
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