Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

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PEOPLE CONTINUED joins WBRB as bookkeeping assistant-traffic director. Gustavo Feist Moran, manager, XEGM Tijuana, Mexico, to KALI Pasadena, Calif., as Spanish program advisor. Gene Piatt, formerly with KELO Sioux Falls, S. D., to WOW-AM-TV Omaha, as announcer. Dave Drew joins WJEM Valdosta, Ga., as disc jockey-salesman. Arch Andrews joins KOWH Omaha as announcer. David Barker, formerly with WARE Ware, Mass., and Don Skylar, formerly with WPAM Pottsville, Pa., join WOKO Albany, N. Y., as announcers. Millard Hansen, disc jockey-newscaster, WKRS Waukegan, to WREX Rockford, both Illinois, as announcer. C. L. (Chet) Thomas, vice president-general manager, KXOK St. Louis, Mo., elected vice president, Goodwill Industries of Missouri. Don Mozley, news director, KCBS San Francisco, elected to president, Northern California Chapter, Sigma Delta Chi. BUI Diehl, motion picture editor-entertainment columnist, St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, takes on extra duties as disc jockey at WDGY Minneapolis. REPRESENTATIVES • David Scott, national sales manager, WNBC (TV) New Britain, Conn., to NBC Spot Sales as New England division manager. He joined WNBC (then WKNB) in 1946 as program director. PROGRAM SERVICES Jack C. Harenberg, chief engineer, United Press News-Pictures Central Div., named division communications manager, succeeding late Thomas A. Johnson. Bruce M. Johns, promotion director, WCHSTV Charleston, W. Va., to Tv Guide, Cincinnati, as Southern Ohio and West Virginia promotion representative. Vernon J. Ballard, formerly merchandising manager Atlanta Journal-Constitution, to Tv Guide, Atlanta, in similar capacity for Georgia and Alabama. Robert L. H. Brazy, 40, president, Pan American Broadcasting Corp., L. A. (background music service), and president, Fm Development Assn., died Nov. 29, at his home in Palm Springs, Calif. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES William Nallan, formerly with 20th Century Fox, to chief engineer in charge of operations, Sound Recording Inc., N. Y. Page 112 December 9, 1957 J. William Chapman ► Jr., office manager, Stone Mfg. Co., Greenville, S. C, joins Paul H. Chapman Co. (station broker), Atlanta, Ga. Harry Landon, vice president, Olmsted Sound Studios, N. Y., married to Pamela Wilson Dec. 7. MANUFACTURING m wmmmmmmmmmmmm ■< Irving E. Russell, formerly partner-general manager, All-State Distributing Co., Newark, N. J., to Bell & Howell, Chicago, as central states tape recorder sales manager. Richard L. Snyder, various supervisory posts in Radio Tube Div., Sylvania Electric Products Inc., named manager, Semiconductor Div., Woburn, Mass. William J. Lehner, in charge of machine development, Sylvania Electric Products Inc., N. Y., named automation engineering manager, radio-tv division, succeeding Carl Carlzen who resigns. Pearl Montvid appointed public relations contact at Admiral Corp., Chicago, replacing Martin Sheridan, resigned to join New England Industrial Council. GOVERNMENT William H. Watkins, assistant chief, frequency allocation-treaty division (office of chief engineer), FCC Washington, named engineering assistant to Comr. T. A. M. Craven. INTERNATIONAL ••• Bruce McLean appointed vice-president of Needham, Louis & Brorby of Canada Ltd., Toronto, Ont. Dick Thibodeau, research manager and French-language sales director, Broadcast Advertising Bureau, Toronto, Ont., to CHRC Quebec City, Que., as national salespromotion manager. Mary Cardon, media director, Kenyon & Eckhardt Ltd., Montreal, Que., to J. Walter Thompson Co., Montreal, as director of media and research. Jack Brickenden, formerly of radio news desk, United Nations department of public information, appointed supervisor of publicity of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Toronto. Alex Davis, assistant press-information representative of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Halifax, N. S., named supervisor of audience relations at Toronto. Douglas Leiterman, parliamentary correspondent, Southam News Service, Ottawa, to CBC-TV, Toronto, editorial staff of Close-Up, its Sunday evening national opinion program. Broadcasting