Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1958)

STATIONS CONTINUED Programmed for the housewife . . . the buyer for the family WISH Indianapolis CBS Represented by Balling A CORINTHIAN STATION KOTV Tulsa • KGUL-TV Houston WANE & WANE-TV Fort Wayne WISH & WISH-TV Indianapolis ON THE SPOT RECORDING ^ I TAPE • FULLY TRANSISTORIZED • LIFETIME BATTERY • FLAT TO 10,000 CYCLES Where you go, Minibtape goes, with its own power and precision recording unit in one compact aluminum case. Sports, crime, special events ... no other recoider can do the job of Minitape. Quality equal to finest ACoperated units. Get all the facts about Minitape today! STANCH-HOFFMAN CORP. 921 N. Highland Ave. • Hollywood 38, Calif. will become vice presidents of the new corporation. They are Mr. Wooten's sonsin-law. The Cowles organization, which a year ago sold WNAX Yankton, S. D., and ch. 9 KVTV (TV) Sioux City, Iowa, to Peoples Broadcasting Corp. for $3 million, announced at that time it would seek replacement properties. Other Cowles stations: KRNT Des Moines and 60% of KRNT-TV Des Moines; WHTN-AM-TV Huntington, W. Va. Gardner Cowles, president of the Register and Tribune, also is publisher of Look magazine. WREC-TV is on ch. 3. WREC is on 600 kc with 5 kw, directional antenna with different patterns day and night. Both stations are affiliated with CBS. KVLF to Have Weather Station An official U. S. Weather Observation Station now is in operation at KVLF Alpine, Tex., it has been announced by Gene Hendryx, president of the station. Apart from the initial equipment, the observation post does not cost the federal government anything to operate as it is manned by specially-trained KVLF staffers, Mr. Hendryx said. WISH Names Petry Rep. WISH Indianapolis has appointed Edward Petry & Co. as national sales representative, effective Dec. 1, it has been announced by Robert B. McConnell, vice president and general manager of WISHAM-TV, and Bob Ohleyer, manager of WISH radio. The station is owned by Corinthian Broadcasing Co. First Day Sell-Out for WVCG-FM WVCG-FM Coral Gables, Fla., went on the air Nov. 16 with a sell-out, presidentgeneral manager George W. Thorpe, reports. From 6:30 a.m. to sunset, WVCG-FM duplicates WVCG's programs; after this time, up to midnight, it sells and originates its own shows. For the rest of the fm outlet's first week, Mr. Thorpe says, it sold more than 60% of available time. WVCGFM is on 105.1 mc. Stereophonic broadcasts are aired twice weekly by the stations. WBC Sends McClay in for Israel At WJZ-TV, Mathiesen to KYW-TV lohn L. McClay, general manager of Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.'s KYW-TV Cleveland since this past summer has been MR. McCLAY MR. MATHIESEN transferred to a similar post at the WBCowned WJZ-TV Baltimore, it is being announced today (Dec. 8) by WBC President Donald H. McGannon. Mr. McClay succeeds Larry H. Israel, named general manager of the newly-formed Television Advertising Representatives Inc., Westinghouseowned station representative organization [Stations, Dec. 1]. Mr. McClay's post in Cleveland will be filled by George H. Mathiesen, since 1954 assistant general manager of KPIX (TV) San Francisco, also Westinghouse-owned. Mr. McClay has been in broadcasting since 1939. In 1956 he joined WBC as assistant to the vice president in charge of KYW-AM-TV Cleveland, being named to his last post on July 12 this year. Mr. Mathiesen began as a transmitter engineer at KSFO, remained with the station through 1948 when he joined KPIX (TV). He has been with the San Francisco Westinghouse operations since that time. NEXT SUMMER KMOX St. Louis will move into its $750,000 headquarters [Stations, Nov. 3]. The 15,500 sq.-ft. plant is the first building by CBS in 20 years to accommodate one of its radio outlets exclusively. Page 90 • December 8, 1958 Broadcasting