Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

Two heads are better than one, except when the second one comas from a hangover. Merry Christmas ! WMT-TV CBS Television for Eastern Iowa Mail Address : Cedar Rapids National Reps: The Katz Agency TO COVERAGE— is the KOA-RADIO Route that takes your advertising message throughout the entire Western Market — reaching cities and towns, farms and ranches in 302 counties of 12 states! TO SALES — is the KOA-RADIO Route — the West's best way to sell your product to over 4 million potential customers! GET ON STAY ON* KOARADIO! It's the only station you need to route your product directly to the entire, rich Western Market. (*mosf advertisers dol) Represented nationally by Henry I. Christal Co., Inc. KO DENVER One of America's great radio stations 50,000 watts 850 Kc -«< Harold (Hap) Anderson, general manager, WDEF-TV Chattanooga, Tenn., to Founders Corp. (investment firm owning KPOA Honolulu, WFBL Syracuse, N. Y., and WTAC Flint, Mich., and holding 50% interest in KTVR [TV] Denver and in WSMB New Orleans as well as Mohican Stores Inc., chain of 65 supermarkets in New England and trading stamp company in New York), N. Y., as president. He succeeds John M. Shaheen, Founders president and majority stockholder (who remains as board member), as president. Otis H. Segler, WDEF ► TV commercial sales manager, succeeds Mr. Anderson as general manager. John Carroll, managing director of WKMH Dearborn, Mich., takes on additional duties as vice president of Knorr Broadcasting Corp., licensee of WKMH. Ed Tabor, KBAK-TV Bakersfield, Calif., promoted to general sales manager. Randolph H. Gretes, formerly general manager, KRPL Moscow, Idaho, to WWBZ Vineland, N. J., in similar capacity. Curt Sorbo, formerly sales representative of KFYR-TV Bismarck, to KMOT-TV Minot, both North Dakota, as station manager. John E. Barrett, formerly with KERO-TV and KBAK-TV, both Bakersfield, as sales manager, to KFRE-TV Fresno, both California, in similar capacity. ■M Russell McElwee, sales staff, WSOC-TV Charlotte, N. C, promoted to local and regional sales manager. Before joining WSOCTV last April, Mr. McElwee was with WXEX-TV Richmond, Va., as account executive. Robert B. Cheyne, for ► merly vice president in charge of sales. Allied Appliance Co., Boston, to WHDH-AM-TV Boston as director of sales promotion. Mr. Cheyne has been in sales and advertising work in New England for past 12 years. Alex M. Victor, radio-tv director, Francis D. Gonda Adv. Co., Hollywood, to KMLAFM Los Angeles as director of sales promotion. Duane Modrow, formerly salesman at Henry Field Aluminum Products Co. and at KFNF Shenandoah, Iowa, to KMA that city as promotional manager. He succeeds F. S. Nelson, resigned to become assistant advertising manager of Earl May Seed Co. Ron Schafer joins KSAN San Francisco as merchandising manager. ABOVE, Gardner Cowles (1), chairman of the board of the Cowles Broadcasting Co. and editor of Look magazine, is seen with Robert R. Tincher, vice president of Cowles and general manager of WHTN-AM-TV Huntington, W. Va., during Mr. Cowles visit to the station's newly remodeled studios. In addition to Mr. Cowles, Gen. Luther Hill, president of Cowles, toured the new radio and tv studios in Huntington. They also inspected the facilities in Charleston, W. Va., which are expected to be completed in the near future. Michael V. Secrest, formerly productionpromotion director of WTIX New Orleans and program director of KXYZ Houston, to Johns' Stations (WMIN Minneapolis-St. Paul, KMNS Sioux City, KIHO Sious Falls, S. D., and WOSH Oshkosh, Wis.) as national director of programming. ■< Clark Pollock, formerly operations executive with WLBR-TV Lebanon, Pa., and production-program director with WNBF-AMFM-TV Binghamton, N. Y., to KVTV (TV) Sioux City as program director. Douglas L. Sinn, local sales manager, WWJTV Detroit, to WMBD-TV Peoria, 111., as regional sales manager. Bob Carlton, announcer, and Robert Epstein, account executive, WMBD, join WMBD-TV as account executives. Louis O. Hertz Jr, formerly art director for WABT Birmingham and member of animation engineering staff of UPA Pictures 3 MILLION Montana visitors will have their car radios tuned to KGVO MISSOULA, MONT. plus all Western Montana • affiliated with KMSO-TV MOSBY'S INC. Page 84 • December 23, 1957 Broadcasting