Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Date:
Oct-Dec 1959
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Broadcasting Publications Inc.
Volume:
Broadcasting
Leaf #:
000600
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:
June 27, 2024
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Looking ahead • Planning for NAB's 1960 convention has begun as the Engineering Conference Committee met last Wednesday (Oct. 28) in Washington to consider more than 100 technical papers offered or suggested for presentation at the annual Broadcast Engineering Conference. Approximately 20 papers will be selected. Attending the committee meeting were (seated, 1 to r) Russell Pope, KHSL-AM-TV Chico, Calif.; George Hixenbaugh, WMT-AM-TV Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Warren Braun, WSVA-AM-TV Harrisonburg, Va. (committee chairman); A. Prose Walker, NAB engineering manager; George W. Bartlett, NAB assistant engineering manager; (standing, 1 to r) Harold E. Fellows, NAB president; James D. Parker, CBSTV; Raymond F. Guy, NBC; Frank Marx, ABC; J.R. Livesay, WLBH Mattoon, 111.; and Allan T. Powley, WMAL-AM-FM-TV Washington, D.C. 1960 convention will be held April 3-7 in Chicago. I sted County Bcstg. Co. John Grandy is president and W.E. McLenahan is general manager. WPCF is owned and operated by Bay County Bcstg. Co. E.L. Dukate is president and general manager. KCKC is owned and operated by M.V.W. Radio Corp. Raymond T. McKenzie is president and Clair A. Weidenaar is vice president. Paschall plaque • The late Walter Goode Paschall of WSB-AM-TV Atlanta, Ga., who died May 5, is commemorated on a plaque given by the city to be placed in one of Atlanta's housing projects. Mr. Paschall was active in slum clearance activities. WBIC getting set • WBIC Islip, N.Y., due to go on-air soon, has completed its transmitter building. The new daytimer will be on 540 kc with 250 w. Studio for KIVA (TV) • KIVA (TV) Yuma, Calif., has inaugurated new 37x 50 ft. studio-production facilities. Features are sliding rear doors providing access for automobiles, scenery, etc.; technical equipment for live and projected programming in the master control room, a dark room, conference room and clients' viewing area. KVI moves * KVI Seattle moved Sept. 14 into its new $100,000 facilities in the Tower Bldg. at 7th and Olive Sts. KYA-FM hours • KYA-FM San Fran80 (THE MEDIA) cisco now is on the air 7 p.m.-l a.m. every evening with unduplicated programming. At French Lick • Indiana Broadcasters Assn. adopted revised dues structure for members and heard industry speakers at its fall meeting in French Lick Oct. 910. Joseph Higgins, WTHI -AM -TV Terre Haute, presided as IBA president over conference, which drew about half of organization's membership. Among speakers: John F. Box Jr., managing director, Balaban Stations; Charles Tower, NAB manager of broadcast personnel and economics, and John L. McClay, general manager of WJZ-TV Baltimore, Md., Westinghouse station. WDXI (TV) fulltime • Ch. 7 Jackson, Tenn., has started operating from 10 a.m.-midnight, Monday-Saturday. WDXI (TV) formerly signed-on at 2 p.m. WAFM (FM) on air • WAFM (FM) has commenced operation. It's on 93.1 mc, with 17.5 kw. Reaching out • WGAN-TV Portland, Me., after a period of extensive testing, Friday (Oct. 30), officially began full-power, full-time transmitting from its new 1,619-foot tower, said to be tallest in the world, according to Creighton E. Gatchell, vice president and general manager of Guy Gannett broadcasting services. Reception from the ch. 13 CBS-TV outlet was excellent as far away as 70 miles, Mr. Gatchell said. Nominations due • National Conference of Christians and Jews, N.Y., reminds that nominations for the seventh annual Brotherhood media awards must be submitted by Nov. 24. Winners will be named during Brotherhood Week, Feb. 21-28, 1960. Among the categories: advertising campaigns (national and local) : radio programs and television programs (both series and single broadcasts eligible). Entry forms may be obtained from NCCJ headquarters at 43 W. 57th St., New York 19. Visitor from Thailand • American Broadcasting Co., in cooperation with the National Educational Exchange Service of the State Dept., is hosting Pichai Vasanasong, tv producer-director from Thailand, who arrived in New York Oct. 26. The visit resulted from the five-week tour of Australia and Southeast Asia made last month by Leonard Goldenson, president of ABPT Inc., and Oliver Treyz, ABC-TV president. Mr. Treyz invited Mr. Vasanasong to New York to observe and study tv programming and technical operations. The government of Thailand operates two stations in Bangkok and is planning to build three more in that country, it was learned. BROADCASTING, November 2, 1959