Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1963)

Quaal greets board of Broadcast Pioneers' new chapter Ward Quaal (center), executive VP-general manager, wgn-am-tv Chicago and past president of Broadcast Pioneers, greets board of Southern California chapter, elected at organization meeting Dec. 4 in Hollywood (Broadcasting, Dec. 9). Shown in photo (1 to r) : Georgia Fuller, kmpc Los Angeles; Ken Carpenter, announcer; Loyd Sigmon, kmpc VP and general manager; Lyle Sheldon, Los Angeles County Fair; Virginia Mansfield, kfi Los Angeles; Calvin J. Smith, kfac Los An geles; Mr. Quaal; William Beaton, kiev Glendale: Art Gilmore, AFTRA, past national president; Van C. Newkirk, Broadcast Advertising, chairman of the new chapter; Glenn Dolberg, BMI, retired; Walter Bunker, Young & Rubicam; and Harry Witt, Reach, McClinton & Co. Robert M. Light, Southern California Broadcasters Association, is also a board member, but was not present when photo was taken. Mr. Quaal was the main speaker at the chapter's organization meeting at the Roosevelt hotel. Jones, formerly with TV department of Doyle Dane Bernbach, joins Logos' creative department. Robert B. Weiss, international director of Warner Brothers Records, resigns, effective Dec. 31, to devote full time to his own business, Weiss International Holding Co. Ltd., with headquarters in Paris, France. Mr. Weiss joined Warner Brothers in 1959. Klaus J. Lehman, formerly with CBS-TV and Donahue & Coe, New York, joins Trans-Lux Television Corp., that city, as production supervisor. Lee Savage, formerly TV commercial director at N. W. Ayer & Son and producer-director for MPO Productions and J. Walter Thompson Co., appointed creative director of Elektra Film Productions, New York. Mr. Savage succeeds Abe Liss, who died Dec. 1. Larry Hogan, announcer at wera Plainfield, N. J., promoted to program director. Dave Robinson, air personality at waqe-am-fm Towson, Md., assumes added duties as program director. Lou Morheim, story consultant on Daystar's science fiction series The Outer Limits for ABC-TV (Mondays, 7:30-8:30 p.m.), named associate producer of series. Geoff Edwards, formerly program di e titan a decade of (^onilructlve Service to $roadcasteri and f/ie feroadcaitlnq ~$nduitrij HOWARD E. STARK Brokers — Consultants 50 EAST 58TH STREET NEW YORK. N. Y. ELDORADO 5-0405 rector of kfmb San Diego, joins khj Los Angeles as director of special events. Milt Hoffman, producer of The Steve Allen Show for Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., resigns, effective Feb. 1. Pat Summerall, TV sportscaster and former member of New York Giants football club, appointed sports director of wcbs New York. Louis B. Ames, director of cultural programing for World's Fair Corp., joins RCA as programs manager for company's activities at 1964-65 New York World's Fair. He will be responsible for developing program material for color TV studio and closed circuit color TV network that RCA will operate at fair. Before joining World's Fair Corp. in December 1960, Mr. Ames was program manager at wpix(tv) New York, and earlier served with NBC as associate producer of Today show and feature editor of Home show. Russell Johnson, TV actor whose recent credits include Rawhide, Twilight Zone, The Farmer's Daughter and The Outer Limits, signed by CBS-TV as narrator of The Great Adventure (Fridays, 7:30-8:30 p.m. EST), replac Mr. Ames 92 (FATES & FORTUNES) BROADCASTING, December 16, 1963