Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1959)

WDEF-TV Chattanooga, and Sue Johnson, national sales secretary, assume additional responsibilities for national and regional sales, following resignation of national sales manager, Richard Holloway, who has joined WFMY-TV Greensboro, N.C. • Theodore M. Wrobel promoted to assistant sales manager for WBZ-TV Boston. He has been with sales department since 1957. • Jim Rogers, account executive with Paul H. Raymer Co., radio and tv rep., appointed to head new Chicago office. • John C. Schulz, formerly account executive with NBC, to The Pulse Inc., as director of midwest operations for Great Lakes activities, with Chicago headquarters. • John M. Grubbs, formerly director of news and special events with WIBG Philadelphia, appointed program director of WJBK Detroit, both Storer Broadcasting Co. stations. • Jerry White appointed program director of WPEN Philadelphia. He was previously announcer with WNEW-AMFM and WQXR-AM-FM, both New York, as well as ABC. • Dan Allan, appointed station program director of WLOL-AM-FM Minneapolis-St. Paul, succeeding J. Peter Boysen who will devote his time ex clusively to air personality duties. Allen Royse, formerly account executive with Vance Pidgeon Adv., that city, joins WLOL sales staff, succeeding J. Warren Burke. Mr. Day Mr. Wellington • Del Day and Gil Wellington have formed DayWellington Inc., rep firm to handle regional and national radio and tv sales. Mr. Day formerly was west coast national sales manager for Midnight Sun Broadcasting Co., which operates KFAR-AM-TV Fairbanks, KENI-AM-TV Anchorage and KTKN Ketchikan, all Alaska. Mr. Wellington has been sales manager of KXA and KTIX, both Seattle, and previously was with Midnight Sun Broadcasting Co. for 14 years. New firm has offices at 424 Vance Bldg., Seattle. Telephone: Mutual 2-6535. • Syd Cassyd, founding member of Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and president of that organization in 1950, joins U. of California Exten sion staff as special consultant in edu cational tv. • Galen Fromme, radio news editor, appointed news manager of WBALAM-TV Baltimore. Mike Meise named assistant news manager of WBAL-AMTV. Al Quinn to WBAL-AM-TV as news specialist. • Ralph P. McCasky Jr., formerly account executive with Young Television Corp., Chicago, to Peters, Griffin, Woodward, that city, as tv account executive. • Shirley Dunham named publicity manager of WKRC-TV Cincinnati. Previously she was with KSJO San Jose, Calif. • H. L. (Hank) Foiles, formerly catcher for Pittsburgh Pirates, appointed promotion director of WVEC-TV Hampton-Norfolk, Va. • Jim Curtis, formerly with staff of WKBW-TV Buffalo, and John R. Sharpe, night news editor for WEBR Buffalo, named production director and assistant director of promotion, respectively, of WEBR. • William Small, news director of WHAS-AM-TV Louisville and newlyelected president of Radio-Tv News Directors Assn. has announced chairmen of RTNDA committees for 1960: James L. Snyder, chief of Westing UPPER STRATA STRATEGY! Friend of ours who always attends the sessions in the lecture halls, starts on the Fourth Floor with Production Items . . . and works his way down to Components on the First Floor. Says his feet tell him it's easier to come down than to go up! And he never misses a trick this way. Sounds like good engineering logic. Why don't you join him this year . . . and see if it doesn't work for you! PRODUCTION ITEMS INSTRUMENTS & SYSTEMS COMPONENTS COMPONENTS Show Manager SHOW REGISTRATION: ...... and we're set to handle even more of you in 1960 looking for NEW IDEAS in RADIO-ELECTRONICS! Yes, the IRE NATIONAL CONVENTION and RADIO ENGINEERING SHOW is growing bigger every year, and drawing more people— 950 exhibitors representing 80% of the productive capacity of your industry-60,052 registrants last year! Yet, it's one of the most well planned, well executed gatherings you'll ever see! There's room to move around, room to see all you want to see because the IRE takes over all 4 floors of the giant Coliseum in New York City to show what your huge, fast moving radio-electronics industry is coming up with. First and second floors for components; third for instruments and systems; and fourth for production items. Follow the engineers to the Coliseum for NEW IDEAS IN RADIO-ELECTRONICS, 1960! The IRE NATIONAL CONVENTION Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and The RADIO ENGINEERING SHOW Coliseum, New York City MARCH 21, 22, 23, 24 The Institute of Radio Engineers 1 East 79th St., New York 21, N. Y. <r~*> 110 (FATES & FORTUNES) BROADCASTING, December 14, 1959