Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1963)

WEEK'S HEADLINERS 1r. Eversman Mr. Clyne C. Terence Clyne, corporate executive VP of Maxon Inc., New York, elected chairman of agency's executive committee. W. George Eversman, senior VP of Maxon in Detroit, elected VP in charge of Midwest operations. Mr. Clyne joined Maxon in 1962 from McCann-Erickson where he was vice chairman of board. Mr. Eversman has been with Maxon for more than 20 years. Also announced by Maxon: Michael F. Mahony and Peter G. Levathes elected executive VP's and Hunter Hendee, senior VP, appointed director of creative services in Detroit office. George Ogle, supervisor on marketing services, elected VP in charge of product planning. He had been at Lennen & Newell on Colgate Palmolive account. Ray Stone, media director, elected VP in charge of media in Maxon's New York office. Robert F. Gibbons, VP, appointed head on agency's toiletries division of Gillette. Mr. Gibbons had been TV group head at McCann-Erickson and joined Maxon last June. Clark Grant, wood-am-fm-tv Grand Rapids, Mich., elected president of Broadcasters Promotion Association, succeeding Dan Bellus, wdok-am-fm Cleveland, at organization's eighth annual seminar last week in San Francisco (see story, page 92-B). C. George Henderson, VP and general manager of wsoc-tv Charlotte, N. C, elected board chairman of Television Bureau of Advertising, succeeding Gordon Gray, president of wktv(tv) Utica, N. Y., at TvB's ninth annual meeting in Chicago last week (story, page 56). Hendrik(Hank) Booraem, program executive at Lennen & Newell, New York, resigns to join wpix (tv), that city, in newly created post of VP in charge of programs. Mr. Booraem entered broadcasting field in 1937 as assistant to VP in charge of radio at Kudner Agency. In intervening years he has served as producerdirector at Young & Rubicam; VP in charge of radio-TV for Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, McCann-Erickson and C. J. LaRoche & Co., all New York, and as manager of national programs for Mutual Broadcasting System. Booraem For other personnel changes of the week see FATES & FORTUNES attitude of the new President. Mr. Johnson's No. 1 aide during the new President's service in the Senate and as Vice President has been Walter Jenkins who presumably will move to a key position on the White House staff. Mr. Jenkins has kept in close touch with the operations of the Johnson station properties. Several important figures in broadcasting have been close to Mr. Johnson. One of the new President's confidantes going back to Senate days is Frank Stanton, CBS president. Reportedly Dr. Stanton could be enticed to leave CBS only by the offer of a high government position. In a Johnson administration a cabinet job for Dr. Stanton would not be out of the question. Others from broadcasting who have worked with Mr. Johnson are John S. Hayes, president of the Post-Newsweek Stations and chairman of the Washington Post Co. executive committee, and Leonard H. Marks, Washington communications attorney. Mr. Hayes was radio-TV adviser to Mr. Johnson during the 1960 vice presidential campaign. Mr. Marks was active in the Johnson campaign financing. His firm, Cohn & Marks, also represents the station interests that the new First Lady, Mrs. Claudia T. (Lady Bird) Johnson owns. Cancel commercials, all entertainment Television and radio networks cancelled all commercials and all entertainment programs Friday afternoon for news and special coverage of assassination of President John F. Kennedy and related developments. CBS and NBC radio and TV networks said they would carry no commercial announcements or entertainment shows until after funeral. Mutual radio network said it would follow similar policy. ABC said its radio and TV networks would do so "indefinitely." Many affiliated and independently LBJ broadcast holdings President Lyndon B. Johnson is himself a broadcaster once removed. His wife, Mrs. Claudia T. (Lady Bird) Johnson, owns 57.49% of the LBJ Co., the licensee Of KTBC-AM-FM-TV Austin, Tex. LBJ Co. also owns 29.5% of Kwtx Broadcasting Co., licensee of kwtx-am-tv Waco, Tex. Kwtx Broadcasting Co. owns 50% of kbtx(tv) Bryan, Tex.; 80% ofKvn(Tv) Ardmore, Okla., and 80% of knal Victoria, Tex. The LBJ Co. holds an option to acquire 50% of TV Cable of Austin Inc., which holds a franchise to construct a CATV system in Austin, Tex. TV Cable of Austin is owned principally by local residents. Associated with Mrs. Johnson in the ownership of LBJ Co. are: J. C. Kellam, 5.95%; O. P. Babbitt, 1.19%; Paul Bolton, 2.9% and Warren Woodward, .34%. Both Johnson daughters, Lynda Bird and Lucy Baine, hold 13.6% each in trusts. operated stations similarly cancelled commercial programing. Date of funeral not set late Friday C but was expected to be held Monday or ] Tuesday. CBS cancellations include its regional coverage of collegiate football Saturday ^ and National Football League profes ,4 sional games Sunday. ABC-TV has i American Football League pro games whose coverage presumably would also be affected. Mutual said it would not L provide its regularly scheduled football \ coverage over weekend. Radio, TV stations sold in Guam, South Carolina Sale of kuam-am-tv Agana, Guam, _ by Phil Berg to H. Scott Killgore and ' associates for $650,000 was announced j Friday (Nov. 22). Killgore group owns kali San Ga ; briel, Calif., kudl Kansas City, kofy and kufy(fm) San Mateo, Calif., and Ii CP for kecc-tv El Centro, Calif. Kuam is 1 kw fulltime on 610 kc, B and is affiliated with MBS and NBC. F Kuam-tv is on channel 8. Broker was Blackburn & Co. Also on Friday, FCC announced approval of sale of wqxl Columbia, S. C, ., by Edgar Morris and associates to Henderson Belk for $225,000. Mr. Belk, Charlotte, N. C. department store chain owner, owns wist-am-fm there and word Spartanburg, S. C. Wqxl operates daytime only on 1470 kc with 5 kw. 10 BROADCASTING, November 25, 1963