Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

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PEOPLE CONTINUED will be responsible for engineering design and development of complete line of tvradio transmitters. Alvaro D. Biagi, senior project engineer, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. research center, to Federal Telecommunication Labs, Nutley, N. J., as executive engineer. •< Garth L. Johnson, Dallas area field and sales engineer, Collins Radio Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, named district sales manager, headquartering in Houston. Mr. Johnson will serve brodcasters in southern Texas. Seymour Winuk, sales engineer, Radio Receptor Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., promoted to assistant sales manager for selenium rectifiers, semiconductor division. Ernest L. Hall, formerly general manager of Du Mont tv division of Canadian Aviation Electronics to Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. as staff assistant to president. Frank Willis Munro, advertising manager, Ashland Oil & Refining Co., Ashland, Ky., died Oct. 13 following heart attack. OFFICERS of Colorado Broadcasters & Telecasters Assn. met informally with their congressmen in Denver in CBTA's first annual "thank you" luncheon for legislators. A major topic of conversation was Sen. George Smathers' bill to divorce broadcasters from BMI and the recording business. L to r: (front row) Sen. John Carroll (D); Robert Dolph, KFTM Fort Morgan, CBTA president; Rep. Wayne Aspinall (D), and George Cory, KUBC Montrose and the Colorado Network; (back row) Harry Hoth, KRDO-AM-TV Colorado Springs, CBTA vice president; Phil Mullin, administrative assistant to Sen. Gordon Allott (R); Rep. William Hill (R); Russel Shaffer, KBOL Boulder; Rex Howell, KREX-TV Grand Junction; Rep. Edgar Chenoweth (R); Robert S. Hix, KOA Denver-CBTA secretary-treasurer; Clayton Brace, KLZ-AM-TV Denver. Look Back! The man* you're looking for may be advertised in Broadcasting's Classified section right now. For personnel, jobs, equipment, services or stations to buy or sell, tell everyone that matters via the Classified pages of Broadcasting. * or job. PROGRAM SERVICES Don Estey, executive vice president and one of founders of Song Ads Inc., Hollywood producer of radio and tv jingles and commercials, has resigned. Future plans are unannounced. Sandy Sheldon, WRCA-TV New York, producer of Ask the Camera, to Sandy Howard Productions, same city, as executive producer of The Barry Gray Show (WMCA New York and WIP Philadelphia, Mon.-Sun. 12 midnight-2 a.m.) and Luncheon at Sardi's (WOR New York, Mon.-Fri. 12:15-1 p.m.). PROFESSIONAL SERVICES —-/••:—••;;• • Richard Kane, account executive with S. Jay Reiner Co., N. Y., contest and merchandising consultant firm, named vice president. TRADE ASSNS. ; . . Ralph Cohn, vice president and general manager, Screen Gems Inc., appointed chairman of Television and Broadcasting Industries committee for 1957-58 drive in behalf of Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. Other members of committee include Lester Gottlieb, CBS-TV; Reuben Jaufman, Guild Films; Charles Oppenheim, CBS-TV; Emanuel Sacks, NBC-TV, and Robert Weitman, CBS-TV. Page H2 October 28, 1957