Sponsor (Apr-June 1962)

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: Sidney Cohen to the New York sales staff of Allied Artists Television Corp. . . . Howard Grafman to midwest division account executive for Seven Arts . . . Amos T. Baron, most recently vice president and general sales manager of KCOP Television, Los Angeles, to western division manager of United Artists Associated . . . Norman W. Glenn to vice president of new program development art Ziv-UA. Public Service Public service in action: • An exploration of higher education highlights a new series called "The Quincy College Hour" on WLS, Chicago. • When WMEX, Boston president M. E. Richmond heard that ticket sales for the Mayor's Charity Field Day were lagging, he offered the service, promptly accepted, of station personalities to spur sales. The entire staff did an all-day remote from city hall. Kudos: Certificates of appreciation from CARE for "outstanding service" in 1961 were presented to Arnold F. Schoen, Jr. executive v.p. and general manager of WDBO-TV and Joseph L. Brechner, president and general manager of WLOF-TV, both in Orlando. Equipment Motorola, which opened its Chicago State Street Display Salon on 14 May, reports floor traffic beyond its expectations. Not only does the public come in to "browse" as was initially anticipated, but the salon staff reports that specific questions on models and lines are asked by the visitors, indicating an unexpected knowledge of product and indicating that agency Burnett must be doing a good job on consumer education. Elsewhere on the Motorola front: sometime within the next year or so, this company will join Chicago's two other major electronic manufac turers, Zenith and Admiral, in color tv receiver production. Factory sales of tv picture tubes and receiving tubes eased back from the 1962 highs scored in March to an April level about average for the first four months of the year. EIA also reported that April distributor sales and factory output of both tv and radio receivers dropped abruptly under March totals, but cumulative totals for the first four months of 1962 remained ahead of those for the same period last year. Tv sales by distributors in April declined to 364,742, the year's low while this year's cumulative total was 1,932,729 through April, vs. 1961's 1,680,672 for the same period. Distributor sales of radios stood at 809,499 in April, against 1962's record monthly total of 917,236 in March. Year-to-date total was 2,987,497 vs. 2,637,850 for the same months last year. New products: A fully transistorized magnetic tape message repeater which plays without interruption or stops on cue, is being manufactured by Cousino Electronics Corp. of Toledo. The unit will sell for under $100 . . . Rolab Laboratories, Sandy Hook, Conn, have come out with a new Ready-Eddy for 16mm exclusively as a companion to the Ready Eddy 16/35 . . . Kahn Research Laboratories has a new single-sideband receiver adapter designed to convert conventional am receivers to singlesideband operation. ... A new ninepin miniature triode-tetrode receiving tube designed for dual purpose use as a low-voltage sync-separator and video-output tube is now available from the Westinghouse Electronic Tube division. PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: Robert J. Klapper to the sales department at Zenith. . . . John H. Ihrig has resigned as a director of Webcor. . . . Thomas E. McCarthy to manager of public information at General Telephone & Electronics. Station Transactions The FCC has approved the transfer of control of WSOR in Windsor, Conn, to Sydney E. Byrnes. Byrnes is president and general manager of WADS, Ansonia, Conn, and is president of The Connecticut Broadcasters Assn. WCNT, Centralia, III. has been sold to Edward Palen, owner of WOKZ, Alton. Seller was Carson W. Rodgers and price was $155,000. Hamilton-Landis handled the negotiations. ^ / Outstanding values in broadcast properties \ Medium size UHF market. Excellent plant and low overhead. Owner-manager opportunity. Equity sale. Price to sell. Six major markets from Canada to Mexico^ Full FM service. Outstanding class B facility. Quality programming. Liberal terms to qualified buyer. WEST COAST UHF $220,000 REGIONAL FM NETWORK $700,000 BLACKBURN & Company, Inc. RADIO • TV • NEWSPAPER BROKERS NEGOTIATIONS • FINANCING • APPRAISALS WASHINGTON, D. C. CHICAGO ATLANTA BEVBRLY HILLS James W. Blackburn jack V. Harvey Joseph M. Sitrick Cerard F. Hurley RCA Building FEderal 3-9270 H. W. Cassill William B. Ryan Hut Jackson 333 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois Financial 6-6460 ATLANTA Cliford B. Marshall Stanley Whitaker Robert M. Baird John C. Williams 1102 Healey Bldg. JAckson 5-1576 Bennett Larson Colin M. Selph Calif. Bank Bldg. 9441 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills. Calif. CRestview 4-2770 SPONSOR • 25 JUNE 1962 63