Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

STATIONS CONTINUED AN 18-day European "Dream Holiday" for two was launched Oct. 27 by KONO San Antonio, Tex., in conjunction with a local department store, Wolff & Marx. In addition to free transportation and accommodations, winners will receive $250 expense money (a sales slip from the store will double it). Over 1,400 announcements are scheduled to run in the 45-day promotion and entries are expected to approach the 200,000 mark. Discussing the contest are (1 to r) Marcus Cohen, executive vice president of Wolff & Marx; Bob Johnson, vice president of Brooks Adv.; John Kimberly, W&M advertising manager; Jack Roth, KONO's manager, and (seated) Norman Netter, W&M president. WKAR-TV Carries Home Game Taking advantage of a new provision written into television rules by the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. last spring, WKARTV East Lansing, Mich., televised the Saturday game between Notre Dame and Michigan State U. in Michigan's Spartan Stadium. The rule that allowed Michigan U.'s noncommercial station to carry the game says, "Any game which is a sellout may be telecast by the home college's institutionallyowned educational television station provided it operates entirely on a noncommercial basis." WNDU-TV South Bend, Ind., also telecast the game. TRANQUILIZE your clients with amazing results by buying proven =1 TV station (KJEO-TV) in fabulously rich Fresno and San Joaquin Valley market. Consult your Branham man now for further fascinating details. We GUARANTEE you'll save your energies . . . get more for your monies ... on KJEO-TV Fresno. ACT TODAY! Page 88 • November 11, 1957 INTERNATIONAL Six New Ams, Two Tvs Requested From CBC There is a light agenda for the Dec. 6 meeting of the board of governors of the CBC at Ottawa, with only six new radio and two new tv station applications. A number of stations are asking for power increases and frequency changes as well as the right to make share transfers. New tv stations are being asked by CHAB Moose Jaw, Sask., and CJBR-TV Rimouski, Que. CHAB is requesting a tv license on ch. 4 with 54 kw video and 27 kw audio power and antenna 830 feet above average terrain. CJBR-TV is asking a license for a satellite station on ch. 70 with power of 45.1 w video and 27.55 w audio and directional antenna 123.4 feet above average terrain. The satellite will be at Estcourt, Que. This is the second uhf satellite application in Canada. New radio stations are being asked for Drumheller, Alta., 1 kw on 910 kc by Dinosaur Broadcasting (1957) Ltd.; for Burnaby, B.C., 5 kw on 730 kc by Burnaby Broadcasting Co. Ltd.; for Kitimat, B.C. (new aluminum smelting center 400 miles north of Vancouver), 1 kw on 1140 kc by Malcolm M. Keeble; for Saanich, B.C., 1 kw daytime on 810 kc by Ellison Queale; for Kitchener, Ont., 1 kw on 1320 kc by Alan G. Hodge; and at Schefferville, Que. (site of iron ore mining community 300 miles north of the St. Lawrence River), 250 w on 1230 kc by Hollinger Ungava Transport Ltd. Power increases are being requested at this meeting of the CBC board of governors by CHUM Toronto, Ont., from 2.5 kw to 5 kw day and 2.5 kw night on 1050 kc; by CKLN Nelson, B.C., from 250 w on 1240 kc to 1 kw on 1390 kc; by CKNW New Westminster, B.C., from 5 kw to 10 kw and change of frequency from 1320 kc to 730 kc; by CKLG North Vancouver, B.C., from 1 kw on 1070 kc to 10 kw on 730 kc; by CJAV Port Alberni, B.C., from 250 w on 1240 kc to 1 kw day and 500 w night on 730 kc; by CJOY Guelph, Ont., from 250 w on 1450 kc to 5 kw on 1430 kc; and by CKRB Ville St. Georges, Que., from 250 w on 1400 kc to 5 kw day and 1 kw night on 1250 kc. CFOS Owen Sound, Ont., is asking for a change in frequency from 1470 to 560 kc with power of 1 kw. Eight radio and a television station are requesting the right to make share transfers, while CFJC Kamloops, B.C., is requesting right to transfer ownership from Kamloops Sentinel Ltd. to Inland Broadcasters Ltd. New Caribbean Link Opened International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., New York, has opened a new overthe-horizon microwave link between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The 238-mile link is the world's third such system, according to IT&T, which also installed O/H links between the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia and Minorca and between the U. S. and Cuba. The Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic link pro Broadcasting