Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1963)

Adamson to VOA post Keith Adamson, career foreign service officer with U. S. Information Agency, appointed deputy director of USIA's broadcasting service, Voice of America, succeeding Arthur W. Hummel Jr., who has been named deputy assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs. Since joining USIA in 1942, Mr. Adamson has served in Cairo. Egypt: Ankara and Istanbul. Turkey, and for past two years as public affairs officer in Bogota. Colombia. Bryan Vaughan, Vickers & Benson Ltd.. Toronto, elected secretary-treasurer. Derek Lamp joins Halas and Batchelor Ltd.. cartoon film producers. He will be attached to television advertising section of company's London studio. Mr. Lamp worked with cartoon unit of National Film Board of Canada for six years as an ideas man. creating story boards and directing animation. Lord Windlesham appointed chief program executive for Associated-Rediffusion Ltd.. London, effective Jan. 1. He is currently head of features and executive producer with company. George Skinner, technical director of ckos-tv Yorkton. Sask., appointed assistant general manager of station. J. V. Birt, ckos-tv sales representative, promoted to sales manager. Geraldine Peppier named program supervisor. Peter Heneker appointed public relations officer of Television Audience Measurement Ltd., London, new post, responsible for all press and PR work for company. He was formerly with Institution of Electrical Engineers. Don Harker joins Rank Organization. London, as information controller attached to marketing department. He has been in charge of press and public relations for Granada TV Network Ltd. for past sLx years. Harold Hatheway, regional supervisor of public affairs department for Canadian Broadcasting Corp. at Halifax, N. S., named manager of new outlet, cbz Fredericton. N. B. Guy Theriault, formerly of Canadian Broadcasting Corp. at Moncton. N. B.. named manager of cbaf and cbaft (ch. 11), that city. Richard Martin, public relations executive at Leedex Ltd.. joins Southern Television Ltd.. London. England, as press officer, succeeding Geoffrey Winnington, who resigned. Arthur Murphy, announcer, program host and inter BROADCASTING. November 11. 1963 viewer with Telefis Eirean. Irish TV network, named continuity announcer at Southern Television Ltd. Ken Seymour, for past three years on staff of Women's Mirror, joins STL as special production assistant Harvey Kirck, director of news department at cfto-tv Toronto, joins CTV Television Network's newscasring team at cjoh-tv Ottawa, effective Dec. 1, replacing Baden Langton, who resigned to join Washington news bureau of ABC-TV. Mr. Langton has been with CTV national news since it began in September 1962. Patricia Coleman joins BBDO. Toronto, as copywriter. M. L Thomas, promotion manager of Radio Sales Bureau, Toronto, appointed market research and sales promotion director of All Canada Radio and Television Ltd.. that city. FANFARE Chet Ettinger, formerly head of his own Cedar Rapids, Iowa, advertising agency, appointed promotion and public relations director of kob-am-tv Albuquerque. N. M. Tom Mahaffey, advertising and promotion director of wjxt(tv) Jacksonville, Fla.. elected VP of Jacksonville chapter of Florida Public Relations Association. Conrad Kaminski to assistant promotion manager of wrn-Tv Milwaukee. DEATHS George Reynolds. \~P-technical director and member of board of directors of Wsm Inc. (wsm am TV Nashville. Tenn.1. died Nov. 1 of heart attack. Mr. Reynolds joined wsm in 1928 as transmitter and studio operator. He was appointed technical supervisor in 1932. chief engineer in 1942. and elected VP and technical director in 1950. Charles Lowell Bigelow, 47, VP and San Francisco manager of Marplan. division of Communications Affiliates, and former research director of McCann-Erickson in Los Angeles and San Francisco, died Nov. 1. George T. Baker. 62. founder of National Airlines, died of heart attack in Vienna. Austria. Nov. 4. He was president of airline when it owned WPST-TV Miami on channel 10. Station's license was revoked when Mr. Baker and others were charged with making off-therecord contacts with then FCC Commissioner Richard A. Mack. Mr. Reynolds [12] CHATTANOOGA CALL . rafi NOW! EQUALIZED TURNTABLE PREAMPLIFIER The Model TT-20A is a compact, low distortion, transistorized Turntable preamp for VR cartridges, with built-iii XAB equalization. Design ingenuity reduces residual noise level to better Than 65 db below output Small current requirements p 6 volt dry cell battery operation, elin ing AC hum worries Response, 30-15,000 cps ± 2 db output — 12 dbm, 600 ohm emitter follower distortion under 1% at double rated output . . . size, 2hi s 2 fa s 5Ja*. Priced from $46.50; transformer output and power supply available. Also available as a nat amplifier Model BA-20A. Write or wire for eomnlete details. BROADCAST ELECTRONICS, 8S00 Brookville Road Silver Spring, Marvland INC. 97