Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1963)

ABS officials meet in Washington Officers of the Association on Broadcasting Standards and other broadcasters who met in Washington last week (see story, page 87) are (seated 1-r) Frederick S. Gilbert, VP of Time-Life Stations; Jimmie Schiavone, general manager of wwj-tv Detroit; George Comte, VP and general manager of wtmj-tv Milwaukee (ABS VP); E. K. Hartenbower, VP and general manager of kcmo-am-fm-tv Kansas City (ABS president); Fred Houwink, VP and general manager of wmal-am-fm-tv Washington (ABS treasurer); Alex Buchan, VP of Air Trails Stations; John E. McCoy, VP of Storer Broadcasting Co.; and Andrew Haley, of Washington communications law firm of Haley, Bader & Potts (ABS general counsel). Standing (1-r) are John Cross, engineer consultant; Ben Strouse, president of wwdc-am-fm Washington; Charles Bevis Jr., ABS executive director; William B. Quarton, president of wmt-am-tv Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Jay W. Wright, engineering director for Crown Stations. Attending the meeting, but not available when the photograph was taken, are R. M. Fairbanks, president of wibc-am-fm Indianapolis; George C. Hatch, president of kall Salt Lake City; Allen M. Woodall, president of wdak Columbus, Ga.; and Lester M. Smith, general manager of kjr Seattle. executive in New York office of Storer Television Sales. He is being transferred from STS's Chicago office where he has served in same capacity. Robert D. Reeser appointed market and media research director in Los Angeles office of Erwin Wasey, Ruthrauff & Ryan. Mr. Reeser has been with EWRR for nearly three years as assistant market research director. John (Jack) Murphy, account executive with H-R Representatives Inc., New York based national spot sales organization, appointed radio manager for company's San Francisco office. Mr. Murphy joined H-R in 1960 in sales development department. Robert Stark, market research director for Foremost Dairies Inc., San Francisco, and former VP and research manager for Young & Rubicam, New York, joins Chesebrough-Pond's Inc., New York, as general manager of marketing research. 94 (FATES & FORTUNES) Mr. Phillips THE MEDIA Charles M. Phillips, for past four years program manager Of WEMP-AM-FM Milwaukee, elected executive VP and general manager of wylo Jackson, Wis. Licensed to Suburban Broadcasting Co., wylo has proposed on-air target date of early 1964. Station will operate on 540 kc, daytime hours only, with 250 w power. Thad M. Sandstrom, VP and general manager of wibw-am-fm-tv Topeka, elected president of Kansas Council of Economic Education. Organization, comprised of educational, business and labor leaders, seeks to improve understanding of American economic system. Everett N. Case, president of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and former president of Colgate University (1942-62), elected board chairman of National Educational Television (NET), New York, for 1964. Mr. Case succeeds Mr. Kraetzer George D. Stoddard, chancellor and executive VP of New York University, who will continue to serve on seventeen-member NET board. Edwin R. Bayley, director of information staff of State Department's Agency for International Development, appointed editor of public affairs programing for NET. Warren A. Kraetzer, since 1959 chief development officer of National Educational Television (NET), New York, elected executive VP and general manager of Whyy Inc., licensee of non commercial educational Philadelphia stations wuhyfm and wuhy-tv (ch. 25) and Wilmington, Del, non-commercial educational whyy-tv (ch. 12). Before joining NET, Mr. Kraetzer was director of office of radio-television at New York University. John J. McPartlin, formerly with wbbm and wbkb(tv) Chicago and onetime VP of wtvw(tv) Milwaukee (now wisn-tv), elected executive vice president of wciu(tv) Chicago. New UHF channel 26 outlet expects to be on air next month. Edward W. Wood Jr., former general sales manager of cellomatic division of Screen Gems Industrial Productions, elected president and general manager of Island Broadcasting System, licensee of walk-am-fm Patchogue and wriv Riverhead, both Long Island, N. Y. A. J. (Blondy) Stahmer, general manager of kmcs-fm, elected president of Greater Seattle FM Association. Other officers elected are Jim Wilke, operations manager of king-fm, secretary; Doug Setterburg, sales manager of keto-fm, treasurer; Courtland Clark, general manager of klsn-fm, director. PROGRAMING Rev. Richard R. Gilbert, of Princeton, N. J., appointed executive director of The United Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., Radio and Television Div., succeeding Rev. Lawrence W. McMaster Jr., who was named to new post of secretary in office of general secretary of Board of National Missions last July. Since January 1963 Rev. Gilbert has been on leave of absence as director of communications for denomination's division of Evangelism and serving as director of continuing education at Princeton Theological Seminary. David Bunim, New York City business consultant, and James H. Wiborg, president of United Pacific Corp., Seattle, elected to board of directors of Official Films Inc., New York. Allen Ash, for past two years Chicago repre BROADCASTING, November 11, 1963