Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

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Record Details:

Title:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Date:
Oct-Dec 1957
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Broadcasting Publications Inc.
Volume:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Leaf #:
0001151
Language:
English
Subjects:
radio and television periodical, Broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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OFFICIALS at the Nov. 14 groundbreaking for CBS Laboratories in suburban Stamford, Conn., buried a sound capsule to be opened in 2057 A.D. Ceremony participants (kneeling, 1 to r): John Christensen, chief engineer, CBS Labs; Dr. Peter Goldmark, president, and Dr. Frank Stanton, president of CBS Inc.; (standing, 1 to r) : Stamford Mayor Thomas Quigley; Daniel Hickey, chairman of the mayor's civic affairs committee; CBS technician Ciro Torchia, and Connecticut State Sen. Benton H. Grant. The new million dollar laboratory is to be finished by the summer of 1958. Long-play records, which CBS Labs' considers one of its most significant developments, were used to record sound capsule's historic contents. A radio-active substance in the capsule will enable researchers to find it in a thousand years by using a geiger counter. Chuck Martin, sales staff, KCMC-TV Texarkana, Tex., to KTBS-TV Shreveport sales staff. J. C. Long, formerly commercial manager, WRFS Alexander City, Ala., joins WKAB Mobile sales staff. Raymond D. Schneider, WEEK-TV Peoria, 111., to WIRL there as chief engineer. Gary Anderson, copywriter-announcer, WLAK Lakeland, Fla., to WOOD Grand Rapids, Mich., as copywriter. «r>wARD E.STARK HOWARD „Nts NEW YORK 22. N. * ]A11 Inquire* Confidential^ Henry Untermeyer, general manager, KCBS San Francisco, and Elaine Benioff were married Nov. 24. Robert Wayne Amsberry, 29, host of children's shows, KEX Portland, Ore., died Nov. 21 after being involved in automobile accident. REPRESENTATIVES .i^r ..•.vm.:.:. Hal Parks, account executive, WAGA Atlanta, named manager of new Atlanta office for Adam Young radio-tv representation companies. Robert J. McNamara, formerly account executive with Peters, Griffin, Woodward, appointed director of client services, H-R Representatives Inc. James M. King, formerly account executive, George P. Hollingbery Co., joins Chicago office of Peters, Griffin, Woodward, as tv account executive. James O. Parsons Jr., vice president of Harrington, Righter & Parsons, N. Y., station representative, married to Elizabeth Patricia O'Brien on Nov. 23. PROGRAM SERVICES mmmmmmmmmm S. Robert Roe, associate producer with Goodson-Todman, N. Y., 1950-51, rejoins company as production executive. MANUFACTURING : • « * • t. • s» v tmmm William J. Nagy, sales promotion manager, accessory division, Philco Corp., Philadelphia, named general sales manager. Jack Pyle, sales engineer, Sylvania Electric Products Inc., Semiconductor Div., L. A., appointed to similar post for division in Burlingame, Calif. Robert D. Browning, recording engineer, RCA-Victor, Chicago, to ORRadio Industries Inc., Opelika, Ala., research and engineering staff. TRADE ASSNS. Neva Elliott, past president, Women's Advertising Club of Portland, Ore., and member of legal firm of Sever & Elliott in that city, appointed general counsel of Advertising Assn. of West. EDUCATION • ••• • • Phil Johnson, news director, WCSH-AMTV Portland, to Nasson College, both Maine, as assistant to president. Ernest E. Phelps, assistant program director, WERS-FM Boston (Emerson College) to Endicott Junior College, Beverly, Mass., as radio-tv department head. John Schubeck Jr. formerly news staff, WUOM (FM) Ann Arbor (U. of Michigan), to WJR Detroit, news staff. INTERNATIONAL E. T. Gater to vice president in charge of sales and advertising of Sterling Drug Mfg. Ltd., Windsor, Ont. BILLY BANKS, President Like Hundreds of Broadcasters . . . President BILLY BANKS of WHAT Philadelphia, Pa. and General Manager DOLLY BANKS Selected STAINLESS TOWERS DOLLY BANKS, Gen. Mgr. LEARN WHY MANY BROADCASTERS CHOOSE STAINLESS TOWERS Call or Write for Informative Literature. St ai nless, inc. NORTH WALES • PENNSYLVANIA Broadcasting December 2, 1957 • Page 91