Radio annual and television yearbook (1953)

TV PERSONALITIES PAUL RAIBOURN. V.P. of Paramount Pictures Corporation, heads up the company's video interest as president of Paramount TV Productions, Inc. His early surveys of TV's potentialities led to Paramount's profitable 1938 investment in Du Mont Labs, as well as to the establishment of KTLA in 1942. Paul joined Paramount in 1921 and rapidly attained a reputation as an analyst of boxoffice values in relation to costs and public psychology in the entertainment industry. REUB KAUFMAN, president of Guild Films is a veteran ad agency man of twenty-two years. He entered the TV film business in 1950 because his agencies "live" program headaches convinced him that films were the ultimate answer to profitable television programming. Reub resigned as president of Snader Telescriptions early in 1952 and organized Guild Films as a film packaging and distributing organization. He got into production with the "Liberace" show in January 1953. LYLE DeMOSS. film buyer of WOW and WOWTV, Omaha, is a pioneer of radio and TV, starting his radio career 30 years ago. Before joining the staff of WOW as production manager in 1937, Lyle served at several Nebraska stations. After joining WOW, he did a great deal of on-the-air work in addition to his duties, as a result of which his voice became well known to midwestern audiences. In 1949 when WOW-TV emerged, Lyle became its program director, and later became assistant general manager of WOW, Inc. JACK J. GROSS, in partnership with Philip Krasne, of GrossKrasne, Inc., Calif., has been a producer at Universal and RKO, producing some of Hollywood's biggest boxoffice successes. While a student in N. Y. C, the place of his birth, his desire was to be around show people. His family moved to the midwest where Jack joined Maupin's Chautauqua concert orchestra, later assuming the post of theatre manager in Eldorado, Kans. Still later he became western division mgr. of the RKO theatres. WILSON M. TUTTLE. has recently been made president and member of the board of directors of United Television Programs, Inc., newly associated with Gross Krasne Prods., Inc., and Studio Films, Inc., under the UPf banner. Bill recently resigned as V. P. in charge of radio and TV and a member of the board of Ruthrauff & Ryan. Bill had been associated with A. & S. Lyons, Inc., as head of the firm's N. Y. office, where his major job was creating, building and selling package shows. STUART REYNOLDS, head of Reynolds Productions, Calif., is one of the very few advertising men active in TV film production and sales. He was formerly with Lord & Thomas, B.B.D. & O, Erwin Wasey, General Mills, and the Don Lee Broadcasting System. Stuart has sold television film programs on a regional and local basis to such clients as Sunkist, Rainier Beer and many others. Headquartering on the West Coast, Stuart is a frequent commuter between New York City and Beverly Hills. 995