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TV PERSONALITIES
DERRICK DYATT.
film director of WTOPTV, Washington, D. C, I 7 was born and edu
f I cated in Pa. Upon
graduation from hiq'i school his interest in show business grew, and he joined the Allentown Little Theatre, later joining WSAN as an announcer. He en tered the Navy and and completed his stint in 1946, when he returned to WSAN. Two years later Derrick left to attend George Washington University, where in his senior year he joined WTCM^-TV, and worked in production until 1951 when he was made film director. • FOWLER, film manager of WABC-TV, N. Y., started at NBC on the guest relations staff, when promoted to the ticket division. While affiliated with NBC, he was engaged by ABC as program assistant in the all-night news operations. His next stint was with CBS to assist Worthington Miner in the development of TV programs. In 1948 he joined the staff of WJZTV (now WABC-TV) belore tne station hit the air. Three years later he was named manager of film programming for the outlet and the ABC-TV network.
FREELON M.
RICHARD C. DREYFUSS. film director of WDTV, Pittsburgh, Pa., first broke into radio when he joined NBC, Chicago, after being educated at the University of North Carolina. At the outbreak of World War II, he entered the U. S. Army Air Force. At the War's end he joined WAGM, Presque Isle, Maine, as program director. Three years later found him associated with the CBS-TV film operations.
Dick is said to have the distinction of being the only film director in the country handling an all night TV film operation.
F. C. ECKHARDT. film buyer of KDYL-TV, Salt Lake City, Utah, attended the University of Montana, where he was active in the band and spent plenty of time in theaters as an m.c. With the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the U. S. Navy in the aviation branch. Returning to Helena, Montana, after the war, Connie kept a watchful eye on the development of TV, and in lanuary 1949 joined
KDYL-TV, the first ■ station to go on the air in the intermountain west.
KEITH GUNTHER, film buyer of KSD-TV, Si.
Louis, Mo., has been in
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^^^^^^V ^^Hs vid^o pioneers such as ^^K^^ jfg Captain Bill Eddy and ^^^^^^^Mr> Warren Wade. When
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^B ^^^^ ^orld War II, Keith be^^^K 'A^^^H came night manager ^^^ A^^H WHN. He served as an ^^^■^^^^^" officer in the U. S. Navy, principally oboard aircraft carriers in the South Pacific. Keith joined KSD-TV a month before the stotion went on the air, Feb. 8, 1947.
BILL FOX. film buyer and program director for KFMB-TV, San Diego,
Calif., is the film buyer ,^?
for San Diego's first and only TV station. He was formerly with the staff of KALB, Alexandria, La., then KSYL, and later moved to WLSU, the Louisiana State University station. In World War II, Bill joined the U. S. Air Force and was stationed in the Pacific Theater, participating in many of the big
raids over Tokyo. Bill joined KFMB-TV in 1948 and became program director two years later.
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