Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1959)

Advertisement Reduced Miniaturized by the exigencies of rateholding, Mr. WSLSTV took it all with good grace. He said: "My model fee's the same no matter what size picture you use." So's our market: 448,001 tv homes in our 58-county coverage area. WSLS-TV • Channel 10 • NBC Television • Mail Address: Roanoke, Va. National Representatives: Blair Television Associates WSYR Delivers 85% More Radio Homes Than The No. 2 Station In an area embracing 18 counties, 402,670 homes, 1.5 million people with a $2.5 billion buying-power ... WSYR DELIVERS MORE HOMES THAN THE NEXT TWO STATIONS COMBINED Top programming Top facilities^ Top personalities make the difference. 17 All figures NCS No. 2, weekly coverage Represented Nationally by THE HENRY I. CHRISTAL CO . INC. vp for company's branch distributing division. Both are newly-created posi • Raymond G. Johnson, controller and assistant treasurer of General Precision Labs, Pleasantville, N.Y., elected vp. • Philip J. Koen appointed director of planning for Hoffman Electronics Corp. Formerly he was management consultant with McKinsey & Co., L.A. • William L. Wray, district managerdistributor sales, for Sylvania Electronic Tubes (division of Sylvania Electric Products) in Burlingame, Calif., named distributor sales manager for Southern California district, Los Angeles headquarters. • Frank A. Comerci, formerly in charge of communications and acoustics section at New York naval shipyard in Brooklyn, to Audio Devices Inc., as senior project engineer at firm's Stamford, Conn., lab. • Rudoplh J. Napolitan, formerly general sales manager of ARF Products Inc. and assistant general sales manager of Permoflux Corp., appointed general manager of National Electronics Conference, international forum held annually in Chicago. • William Robinson appointed chief engineer of paper and film capacitors, filters and pulse networks of CornellDubilier Electric Corp., with headquarters at New Bedford, Mass. • Malcolm O. Campbell named chief of Raytheon's new receiving tube parts and sub-assembly facility in Pawcatuck, Conn. He held similar post at Raytheon's Newton, Mass. plant. • Warren Dalbke promoted to midwest regional manager, equipment sales of CBS Electronics. Previously he served as district manager. • E. P. (Ted) Atcherley appointed Pacific region distributor sales manager for Sylvania Electronic Tubes effective Jan. 1, succeeding William G. (Pat) Patterson who retires on that date. Mr. Patterson, with Sylvania since 1934, remains as consultant. Government • Charles E. Grandey, FTC director of bureau of consultation, to assistant general counsel for voluntary compliance. He joined FTC in 1935, was named assistant chief examiner in 1946, acting chief, bureau of antideceptive practices, Division of Investigation, in 1951, and was named consultation bureau director in 1954. International • Douglas Saunders, chairman of London office of J. Walter Thompson, will retire at year's end. He will be succeeded by William Hinkle, London managing director for many years. Thomas Sutton, of JWT's Frankfurt office, will become managing director of what is described as Great Britain's largest agency. • Douglas Annett, Toronto investment dealer, named president of TransVideo Productions Ltd., Toronto, with Guy Herbert, retired vp of AllCanada Radio & Television Ltd., that city, named managing director. Joe Dunkelman, former president of Trans-Video Productions, joins Canadian Film Industries Ltd.. Toronto. • Donald Hyde, previously executive with Gross-Krasne, Ltd., British subsidiary of Gross-Krasne Inc., opens own independent production organization in London. • Murray T. Brown, general manager of CFPL-AM-FM-TV London, Ont., to director of London Free Press Printing Co. stations' owner. • Charles E. S. Curmi, formerly of Quebec Le Soleil newspaper advertising staff, Toronto, to sales staff of Interprovincial Broadcast Sales Ltd., that city. • Frank C. Murray, formerly of Stovin-Byles Ltd., Toronto, Ont., station representative firm, appointed manager of CJBQ Belleville, Ont. J. H. MacDonald named assistant manager and advertising director of CJBQ. • Marilyn Stonehouse named director of sales services of Robert Lawrence Productions (Canada) Ltd., Toronto. • John Funston, formerly manager of CHNS Halifax, N.S., named assistant manager of CFCF Montreal. Deaths • Walter Compton, 47, MBS Washington commentator, died Dec. 10 after long illness. He was originator and moderator of Double or Nothing quiz HARVEY HAS AMPEX Equipment and Parts For Immediate Delivery HARVEY, RADIO CO., INC. 103 W43rd ST.NEW YORK 36, N.Y.JU 2-6380 118 (FATES & FORTUNES) BROADCASTING, December 14, 1959