Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)
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Ralph Mitchell, previously in sales and merchandising posts with NBC and California National Productions, to sales staff of Screen Gems (Canada) Ltd.
Leonard H. Goldenson, president, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres Inc., N. Y., re-elected board chairman. United Cerebral Palsy Assns. Inc.
William Brendle, ABC press dept., N. Y., father of a boy, Brian Burke Brendle.
STATIONS •
Richard Rudolph, general sales manager, WITH Baltimore, to WTOW Towson, Md., as sales manager.
John B. Garfield, sales staff, WJW-TV Cleveland, Ohio, named local sales manager. Prior to joining WJW-TV in 1955, Mr. Garfield was sales manager at WGAR Cleveland.
David Polinger has resigned as general manager of WAPA-TV San Juan, P. R., and is being succeeded by Carlos Rivera, sales manager.
■< A. E. (Bill) Mickel,
sales manager, KOB Albuquerque, N. M., named station manager. Mr. Mickel joined Albuquerq u e Broadcasting Co. ;(KOB-AM-TV) in 1952 as promotion manager.
Edward Scherer, director, WTTG (TV) Washington, named production supervisor and Coral Long, assistant to station manager, promoted to national account correspondence-sales service coordinator.
John R. Porterfield, formerly with ABC-TV and previously general manager of WNET (TV) Providence, R. I., appointed station manager of WJMR-AM-TV New Orleans and elected vice president of Supreme Broadcasting Co., owner of stations.
M Jan Dellinger, regional sales manager, KCKT (TV) Great Bend, Kan., to KGFW Kearney, Neb., as general manager.
Bradley R. Eidmann, national tv sales supervisor, appointed sales manager of WGN-TV Chicago, succeeding Theodore Weber, resigned.
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JACKSON, TENNESSEE |
Channel 7 =
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half million § people in i the mid | South |
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'MAYBE I'M DEAD'
Maybe I'm Dead, a war novel by Joe Klaas, sales manager of KCBS San Bernardino. Calif., has been bought for filming by Cimarron Productions, Hollywood. The story, based on Mr. Klaas' own experience, is about a death march of 10,000 American prisoners of war across Germany in 40-degrees-below-zero weather. KCBS' sales manager, a fighter pilot with the RAF Eagle Squadron and the USAAF, was a prisoner for 25 months after being shot down in 1943. His novel was published in 1955 and sold more than 100,000 copies.
E. William George, formerly manager, KOME Tulsa, Okla., to KGER Los Angeles as general manager.
James A. McLoughlin, local sales manager, KOMO Seattle, Wash., promoted to commercial manager, succeeding King Mitchell who resigns to join KFKF Bellevue, Wash.
Jack Vaughn, formerly program director, WYZE Atlanta, Ga., to WNAX Yankton, S. D., as production director. He succeeds Roland E. Peterson, who becomes promotion manager.
Robert M. Light, promotion director, KHJAM-TV Los Angeles and Don Lee Broadcasting System has resigned. Duties have been divided between his two assistants, Russ Smith for radio, Bob Nelson for tv, Arrangements will last until conclusion of current negotiations for acquisition of West Coast regional network by MBS.
Harold J. Golstein, formerly promotion director, WWSW Pittsburgh, to KQV, same city, in similar capacity, succeeding Owen Simon who joins KDKA Pittsburgh as publicity director.
John Wrisley, WIS Columbia, S. C, named program director.
W. P. (Win) Baker,
program director, KLFYTV Lafayette, La., to WMBD-TV Peoria, 111., in similar capacity. WMBDTV is scheduled to commence operations in early January.
Gene Strul, news assignment director, WCKT (TV) Miami, Fla., named news director. Robert F. Justice, account executive and advertising manager, joins WCKT as account executive.
Stan Meyer, graduate of Iowa State College, joins KFBB-AM-TV Great Falls, Mont., as farm director.
M Bob Wormington, staff director, WDAF-TV Kansas City, Mo., promoted to production manager. Mr. Wormington joined the station in 1949.
Robert L. Stone, vice president and general manager, WABC-TV New York, father of fourth child, Mary Patricia, in New York Hospital, Nov. 4.
WDBJ
for 33 years
OUTSTANDING
in
ROANOKE
and Western Virginia
RADIO
by any measurement!
According to N. C. S. No. 2, WDBJ has more than TWO TIMES the DAILY N. C. S. Circulation of Station "B"; more than THREE TIMES the circulations of Stations "C" and "D".
In the latest Roanoke Metropolitan Area Pulse Report. WDBJ has a 47% share of total morning audience, 43% share of total afternoon audience, and 38% share of total evening audience. Tune-in same periods is high: 21.6, 23.8, 18.8. All figures are Monday through Friday averages.
Ask your Peters, Griffin, Woodward "Colonel".
WDBJ
AM • 960 Kc. • 5000 watts FM • 94.9 Me. • 14,600 watts
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA
Broadcasting
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