Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1962)

ductor division, appointed divisional director, research and engineering. James H. Doolittle, board chairman, Space Technology Laboratories, Los Angeles subsidiary of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc.. Beverly Hills, retires, but will continue as board member of both companies and as STL consultant. He is succeeded by Dr. Louis G. Dunn, who has been president of Space Technology Laboratories since 1958. Dr. Ruben F. Mettler, STL's executive vp, elected to succeed Dr. Dunn as president and chief executive officer. William H. Weed, advertising and sales promotion manager, industrial components division, Raytheon Co., Lexington, Mass., promoted to divisional products sales specialist for mechanical components. Merle Worster, manager, tv operations for eastern division engineering department, ABC-TV, named director of technical operations for ABC-TV. ALLIED FIELDS F. Wallace Knudsen, associate market research manager, RichardsonMerrell Inc., New York, elected vp and director, Tv Surveys Inc., that city, division of Audits & Surveys Co. Alden Murray, for past nine years in production, operation and sales at WRCTV Washington, establishes own business management office at 4202 Oakridge Lane, Chevy Chase, Md. DEATHS Frank Fouce, 62, president, XETV (TV) Tijuana, Mexico (San Diego) Mr. Ranger and head of Spanish International Broadcasting Co., holder of cp for Spanish-language tv station on uhf ch. 34 in Los Angeles, died Jan. 1 1 following short illness. Harry P. Bridge Jr., 60, chairman, Harry P. Bridge Co., Philadelphia advertising agency, and author of Practical Advertising, died Jan. 13 at his home in Fort Washington, Pa. Richard H. Ranger, 72, president, Rangertone Inc., tape recording firm, and an inventor in field of communications electronics, died Jan. 10 at St. Michael's Hospital in Newark, N. J. Mr. Ranger is credited with developing first transoceanic wireless picture transmitter in 1924. He then developed a reedless, pipeless electronic organ, which in 1931 was acclaimed by many engineers as the most perfect musical instrument ever made. Among Mr. Ranger's other accomplishments were: electronic chimes, 1933; development of radar, 1938-44: airborne radio relay, 1942; magnetic recording, 1947, and development of synchronized tape for motion pictures. Bernard Hugo Berquist, 58, retired conductor of NBC orchestra on network's National Farm and Home Hour, and musician with NBC Chicago for 29 years, died Jan. 13 in Hollywood, Fla. Roy Shield, 68, retired composer, conductor and music administrator with NBC, died Wednesday (Jan. 10) in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He served as conductor, NBC Hollywood; conductor and manager of music division of NBC's Central Div., Chicago, and manager of orchestra personnel, New York. He retired in 1955. Booth Luck, 52, manager, Chicago office of Handley, Gross, Luck & Miller since last May, and earlier, for 18 years with Wade Adv., that city, died in auto accident Jan. 13 near Crystal Lake, 111. Mr. Luck once was character voice of such radio programs as Fibber McGee and Molly, hum and Abner and One Mans Family. Donald S. Anderson, 46, program director, KFH Wichita, Kan., died Dec. 28, 1961 in Wesley Hospital. Mr. Anderson joined KFH in 1950 from WLCX La Crosse, Wis., where he served as chief announcer. He was appointed program director in 1955. Donald Hempstead, 52, traffic engineer, RCA, New York, died Tuesday (Jan. 16) at his office at 44 Beaver St., Paterson, N. J. Mr. Hempstead joined RCA in 1946 and became traffic engineer in 1950. John W. Lozier Sr., 58, since August 1946 conducted own early morning programs, Trader Jack's Trading Post and Trader Jack's General Store, on KRIS and then KRIS-TV Corpus Christi, died of pneumonia Jan. 15 in Corpus Christi. Ernie Kovacs, 42, comedian-actor, died Jan. 13 in automobile accident in West Los Angeles. He recently completed taping new tv series that was to be shown in early February on ABCTV. FOR THE RECORD STATION AUTHORIZATIONS, APPLICATIONS As compiled by Broadcasting, Jan. 1 1 through Jan. 17, and based on filings, authorizations and other actions of the FCC in that period. EDWIN TORNBERG & COMPANY, INC. Negotiators For The Purchase And Sale Of Radio And TV Stations Appraisers • Financial Advisors New York-60 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. • MU 7-4242 West Coast— 1357 Jewell Ave., Pacific Grove, Calif. • FR 2-7475 Washington-1426 "G" St., N.W., Washington, D.C. • Dl 7-8531 This department includes data on new stations, changes in existing stations, ownership changes, hearing cases, rules & standards changes, routine roundup of other commission activity. Abbreviations: DA — directional antenna, cp — construction permit. ERP — effective radiated power, vhf — very high frequency, uhf — ultra high frequency, ant.— antenna, aur. — aural, vis. — visual, kw — kilowatts, w — watts, mc — megacycles. D — day. N — night. LS — local sunset, mod. — modification, trans. — transmitter, unl. — unlimited hours, kc — kilocycles. SCA — subsidiary communications authorization. SSA — special service authorization. STA — special temporary authorization. SH — specified hours. CH — critical hours. * — educational. Ann. — Announced. New tv stations ACTIONS BY FCC Largo, Fla.— WSTP-TV Inc. Granted vhf ch. 10 (192-198 mc); ERP 316 kw vis., 177 kw aur. Ant. height above average terrain 480 ft., above ground 536 ft. Estimated construction cost $1,406,331; first year operating cost $929,730; revenue $969,000. P. O. address 11450 Gandy Blvd., St. Petersburg, Fla. Studio location near St. Petersburg; trans, location Tarpon Springs, Fla. Geog 86 BROADCASTING, January 22, 1962