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Account men alignments! Bo .Mmulay. in Ted Bates & Co. . . . Mouncej Ferguson, to \\ . S. \\ alker Advertising, Pittsburgh . . . Roger Strecker, Kent Westrate ami Art Watson, to Tatham-Laird, ( Shicago. FILM Thr National Theatres acquis!tion of NTA got the finishing touches last week with the appointment of two NTA officers to the National Theatres board. The two arc NTA chairman El) \. Landau and presidenl Oliver \. I nger. Note thai the station holdings of tin new combine now comprises \\M \-T\.\cuark: KMSP-TV,Minaeapolis, plus \\D\I -T\ . Kansas City, plus related radio affiliates. Stock transfer: Official Films has purchased all the stock original!) driven to Dick Powell, David Niven and Charles Boyei in connection with Four Star Productions. ape equipment: \.mpex reported deliver) of 13 VTR-1000 units dur i ii March to 1() stations and producbn centers, as follow-: NBC, 12 olor units: TV dr Mexico, 7 recordis; Sakata Shokai (Japan), 4; Rank intel l London i. 2: Peter De Met H hicago), 2; \\ DAF-TV, Kansas it\. 2: John Cuedel production-. 2: rid one each to the-e: \\II.\-TY. junpa; Siemens (Germany); Conair: KFMB-TV, San Diego; KGBTl\. Harlingen; KTRK-TV, Houston; Sports Network; \\I.\\-T\. Cincinnati; Mobile Video Tape Services I os Ingeles) ; KFGZ-TV, Ft. Worth, KTNT-TV, Tacoma, WPRO-TV, Providence, and KIT.Y \da . . . This brings total tape coverage to r->2 of the top 100 markets to date. Sues: MCA's Paramount features tackage to WROC-TV, Rochester, N. Y. . . . Ziv's Bold I enture to real or Panorama Development on WHEC-TV, Rochester, Y Y. . . . ■ I \ feature and cartoon sale to KRTY. Great Falls; KGHL-TV, Bill ngs; W RWV-TV,Thermopolis,Wyo.; kLRJ-TV, Las Vegas; KFJZ-TV, Ft. Worth; WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh; pKBW-TV, Buffalo; KENS-TV, San Vntonio; KGNS-TV, Laredo; KPTV, Portland; KPHO-TV, Phoenix; WS\ \ TV, Harrisonburg; \\ l\K l\. It. Myers; K M I TV, ( arlsbad; \\ \l \/ l\. \l aeon : CKGM-TV, North Hav : KSHO-TV, Las Vegas; WGR-TV, Buffalo and \\ I \\l\. Columbus, • >.... /i\ Sea Hunt to double exposui e in New i ork i in \\ IM\ as well as \\ \I5(.-'I\ Foi Su i Oil and Bristol-Myers. Production: CBS Films' " hirly birds will bolster third year production u ith guesl stars Ethel \\ aters, I. Carroll Naish and several other . . . \l-o on ( IBS Films' production clipboard is the pilot film of The Ifan From Intites starring Robert Uda, to he shot in Nice 1>\ Sam Gallu. Commercials: Robert Lawrence reports an all-time high of 112 commercials in current production, including work in New York, Hollywood and Toronto studios plus several done on location . . . Roy Ross ha formed his own musical commercials production organization in New York . . . E. B. Edwards has been appointed business manager ol Music Makers . . . I'inlofl Production report 50{ time savings in new live-animation combination technique used for liptop through Grel Advertising and Dixie Cup via Hick \ (ireist. Strictly personnel: 1TC appoint ments last week included the following: Kevin O'Sullivan as regional manager, New York division, George Gray as northeast district manager, Mhert (». Hartigan as New i ork Cit\ account executive, Frank Sheehan as western district manager of \rrow Productions division, and Ellingwood (Bud) Kay as executive stor) editor . . . Larry LowenBtein becomes executive director of Rogers and Cowan in New i ork . . . Ed Palmer i assistant to president Herman Rush of Flamingo Films . . . B. Crenshaw Bonner and Edward Adler to the sales >tatl of Jayark Films, in the southeast and midwest, respective!) . . . Burt Schultz joins Nl \ public relation-; department . . . Arthur Sprit named v.p. ol \ I \ program sales. Trade notes: Directing t\ commercials will be the subject of the April 15 RTES meeting in New York . . . John Freese ol Young ^\ Rubicam has been named American judge of THE ONLY ONE THAT GIVES YOU ALL THREE CAESARS,HEAD • SPARTANBURG •GREENVILLE s. c. GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG ASHEVILLE Only WFBC-TV, "The Giant of Southern Skies," gives you dominant coverage in these three metropolitan markets. Ask the Station or WEED for latest market data, surveys and availabilities. Represented Nationally by WEED TELEVISION CORP. CHANNEL 4 WFBC-TV GREENVILLE, S. C. NBC NETWORK RADIO AFFILIATE. THE PIEDMONT GROUP WFBC GREENVILLE WORD SPARTANBURG iPONSOR II u'kii. 1959