Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

FOR HIGHER SCORES Be sure to buy WWLP, Springfield and WRLP, Greenfield, Mass. In Western New England Nearly Everyone Watches WWLP Channel 22 Springfield-Holyoke, Mass. WRLP Channel 32 Greenfield, Mass. PEOPLE CONTINUED count executive, Campbell-Ewald Co., Chicago, died Nov. 25. FILM Dean Coffin named vice president, Great Lakes sales office, Wilding Picture Productions Inc., Chicago. Lawrence Young and Quinn Short appointed Cleveland and Pittsburgh managers, respectively. ■< Jay Berry, vice president-assistant to president, Brooke, Smith, French & Dorrance, N. Y. and Detroit, named vice president-general manager, Alexander Film Co. (commercials), Colorado Springs. Christian Herfel appointed studio managerassistant director of Transfilm Inc. (tv commercials-industrial films), N. Y. He formerly was studio manager for ATV Film Productions, Long Island City, N. Y. Mort Stein, sales manager, Frazen Tv Commercial Productions, Hollywood, resigns. George Hankoff, sales representative, Screen Gems Inc., Baltimore-Washington-Philadelphia area, transferred to company's national sales department, N. Y. Marvin Fraum, who has been covering upper New York State, assumes Mr. Hankoff's former territory, and William Hart, sales representative, takes over Mr. Fraum's sales area. Tony Rizzo, Advertising Results Inc., N. Y., to Guild Films, as sales representative, covering midwestern states from Kansas City office. Harry Reasoner, CBS news reporter, promoted to staff correspondent. Jack Ruggiero, formerly film editor, MetroGoldwyn-Mayer, to chief film editor, Lawrence-Schnitzer Productions Inc., Hollywood. Milton Krims, scriptwriter, Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., Burbank, Calif., to TPA L. A., as writer-producer of its Air Line Hostess series. David Suskind of Talent Assoc. will produce new tv series, Too Young to Go Steady, to be filmed early in 1958 at Screen Gems in Hollywood. G. Ralph Branton, 61, vice president, Allied Artists Corp. and president of Allied's tv production-syndication subsidiary, Interstate Television Corp., Hollywood, died in L. A., Dec. 2 of heart ailment. NETWORKS i M Michael J. Minahan, systems specialist, internal audit department, ABN, named business manager, succeeding Stephen C. Riddleberger who joins ABC-TV as vice presidentcomptroller, and as assistant treasurer of parent company, AB-PT. Kirk H. Logie, networks program supervisor, NBC Central Div., appointed man 19 Join NBC 25-Year Club Nineteen employes joined NBC's 25-Year Club of New York Dec. 3 in ceremonies at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. New members, who were presented with certificates and watches, are James Anderson, Joseph Arnone, Ruth Barrett, Erick Berglund, Edward Bertero, Eva Boudreau, Odgen Bowman, Donald Castle, Doris Crooker, Edwin Costello, Edwin Dunham, E. Dudley Goodale, Laverne Heuer, Alfred J. Patkocy, Alfred Protzman, Carey Sweeney, Helen Thompson, William Yoost and Hollis Young. ager of tv network programs, NBC-TV, Chicago, succeeding James Troy, resigned. Jay Royen, public relations director for NBC's WRC-AM-TV Washington, appointed to similar capacity with Committee for National Trade Policy there. STATIONS mmmmmmmmmmmm Gene Tibbett, president-general manager, Dixieland Stations Inc., Atlanta, Ga., to WRMA Montgomery, Ala., as executive vice president-manager. Charles Trainor, formerly manager, Forjoe & Co., Atlanta, succeeds him. ■< Bill Swanson, commercial manager, KTUL-TV Tulsa, Okla., named station manager. Mr. Swanson joined station in September 1954 as sales manager. Bob Norris, operations ► director, KTUL-TV Tulsa, named assistant station manager. Mr. Norris joined station in November 1956 as program manager. Paul Reid, formerly part owner, WGOW New Bern, N. C, to WBHB Fitzgerald, Ga., as manager. Mike Pelton and Bill Pack, both with WOOW, to WBHB as chief engineer and disc jockey respectively. Robert F. Klein, in charge of national sales, KFRE-AM-TV Fresno, Calif., named manager of KFRE. Prior to joining stations, Mr. Klein was manager, KNGS Hanford, Calif. Allan Bengtson, station ► relations department, NBC, to WTRY Troy, N. Y., as general manager. Charles R. Thon, general manager, WGLV (TV) Easton, Pa., to WEEX-AM-FM there AMARILLO TEXAS Page 110 • December 9, 1957 Broadcasting