Broadcasting Telecasting (Jul-Sep 1963)

Mr. Levey CBS-TV jointly by UA and Gladasya, the Phil Silvers company. Other is Sherwood Schwartz comedy series, Gilligan's Island. Crisis is a one-hour dramatic series. John Keel and Gilbert Comte join Sandy Howard Productions, New York, as story supervisor and editorial supervisor, respectively, on Howard's Mack & Myer For Hire TV series being produced for Trans-Lux Television Corp. Paul Alderman named assistant publicity manager of Paramount Pictures Corp., New York. John Erman, production assistant at Daystar Productions, signed by Joseph Stefano to direct "Ebon Struck First" segment of Outer Limits, new ABC-TV network series. Before joining Daystar last year Mr. Erman was casting director at 20th Century-Fox Television. James Levey appointed manager of daytime TV programing for ABC-TV network. Mr. Levey joined ABC in 1955 as program assistant, working on such shows as Voice of Firestone, Who Do You Trust? and The Pat Boone Show. He was subsequently promoted to supervisor of film programs and assistant to program development director. For past several years, Mr. Levey has been working principally on business matters pertaining to daytime program development and daytime shows on the air. Paul Freeman named associate producer of Roncom-Revue's Kraft Suspense Theater series (NBC-TV). Robert Schmidt, general manager of kays Hays, Kan., elected president of AP Radio and Television Association at annual board meeting last week in New York. District VP's elected at APRTA meeting were: Tom Eaton, wtic Hartford, Conn.; Carl Lee, wkzotv Kalamazoo, Mich.; F. 0. Carver, wsjs Winston-Salem, N. C; and John Thompson, krca-tv Los Angeles. AP's assistant general manager, Louis J. Kramp, elected secretary of association, while AP radio-TV news editor, John Aspinwall, was re-elected assistant secretary. AP treasurer, Robert Booth, re-elected treasurer of association. Ronald Pollock, manager of network sales development at NBC-TV, appointed director of research and sales development for Independent Television Corp., New York. Parke Levy joins MGM-TV to start preparing for filming first episode of December Groom, new half-hour series starring John McGiver which MGMTV will produce in association with 78 (FATES & FORTUNES) Radio rep expands Robert Richer Representatives Inc., New York-based radio representative firm, announced last week formation of two new regional offices. In Chicago, new office is located at 333 N. Michigan Ave., with Pat Gatto and Phil Boal as directors. Telephone is (312) 345-7530. In Detroit, office is at 424 Book Bldg. and headed by Max Goldfarb. Telephone: (313) Woodward 1-9704. Mr. Levy. Sargeant Major George E. Parker, USMC, has been temporarily assigned to MGM-TV to assist Lt. Colonel Clement Stadler, technical advisor of The Lieutenant TV series which MGM-TV is producing for NBC-TV. Richard West, associate director of ABC-TV's The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, named unit manager of the program, effective today, succeeding Jack Tolen, who moves from San Francisco to Los Angeles to become unit manager of Day In Court, also an ABC-TV program. Wayne Howell returns to wnbc-amfm New York with The Wayne Howell Show (Monday-Friday, 7:05-10:30 p.m. EDT) Sept. 27. Mr. Howell, who left radio in 1962 to devote more time to his TV programs, will replace Jerry Marshall in that time slot. NEWS John F. Lynch, program manager of ABC News' special projects division, promoted to new post of manager of ABC News, Washington. He will be second in command in Washington bureau, reporting to Bureau Chief Robert Fleming. Mr. Lynch started in news with stations and papers in North Dakota, joined United Press in Chicago in 1943, was night radio editor of UP in New York from 1947 until 1951, when he moved to NBC News. On NBC-TV's Today show he rose to general manager and program manager before moving to ABC in 1961. Joe Kozokowsky, formerly with cfpa Port Arthur, Ont., to wthi-tv Terre Haute, Ind., as newscaster. Russell G. Van Arsdale, formerly with wjar-tv Providence, named news director of kttv(tv) Los Angeles. Robert Myers, former chief of Associated Press bureau in Honolulu (Broadcasting, Sept. 23), named chief r. Lynch Ir. Van of AP's Salt Lake City bureau, succeeding Jerry O'Brien, who resigned to become assistant to publisher of Salt Lake City Tribune. In his new post, Mr. Myers will be responsible for AP news and administration in Utah and Idaho. Fred R. Barber Jr., for past three years assistant news director-photographer at wsoc-tv Charlotte, N. C. named news director of wghp-tv (Greensboro Winston Salem) High Point, N. C. Robert Vitarelli, for past 10 years at CBS headquarters in New York, joins Washington staff of CBS News as director of Face the Nation (Sundays, 12:30-1 p.m.) and Washington segments of Walter Cronkite news show. Art Van, for past three years news director at WJHL-TV Johnson City, Tenn., joins wate am TV Knoxville, Tenn., in same capacity. dL^fifL Roy Wetzel, news director of wbbf Rochester, N. Y., for past three years, appointed to newly created position of special projects editor, responsible for expansion of station's broadcast activities in field of government, politics and documentary investigation of community problems. Mr. Wetzel will continue also as news director until successor has been chosen. Lee Starnes, formerly of wpix(tv) New York, named news and public affairs director of whwh Princeton, N. J. Ed McCusker, member of New Orleans bureau of Associated Press, moves to AP's Jackson, Miss., bureau. Peter Stoler, free-lance writer and former newsman, joins weei Boston as editorial researcher-writer. Douglas B. Vernon, formerly of kogo San Diego, Calif., appointed associate news director of wdee Hamden, Conn. ALLIED FIELDS Max Ulrich, radio program manager and radio-TV sports director at wsjsam-fm-tv Winston-Salem, N. C, joins Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation Inc., Atlanta, as associate director. Janet Sillen, VP of Dichter Institute for Motivation Research, joins Albert Shepard Associates-Motivation Dynamics, Mohegan Lake, N. Y., as research coordinator for women's products. GOVERNMENT Arthur Schatzow appointed chief of FCC Broadcast Bureau's research and education division. Helen Clark, FCC librarian, retired Sept. 27 after 45 years of government service. Miss Clark has BROADCASTING, September 30, 1963