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Charles P. Dwyer to assistant general sales manager of KHJ-TV Los Angeles, replacing Phil Bryce who left to enter private business. For the past 2'/2 years, he has been sales manager of ABC International TV in New York. Prior to that he was with Taft Broadcasting at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati and WTVN-TV Columbus as general sales manager. Joseph P. Keyes to press information director for WABC-TV New York, replacing Frank J. Little who was named director of press information and promotion for ABC News. Keyes has been promotion manager for TV Guide. Robert F. Conrad to manager, participating program sales, NBC-TV. He has been a salesman in the participating program sales area since joining the network in 1954. Arnold Kane to executive producer for WOR-TV New York. George Whitney, Jr. has re-joined KHJ-TV Los Angeles as an acount executive. Formerly with RKO General National Sales in New York for six months and San Francisco for a year, Whitney has been with the L.A. station for 1 8 months prior to his Bay City move. Markey Gosciminski is the new local sales manager of WTEV New Bedford. Prior to joining the station as an account executive, he was sales manager for WALE Fall River. Cosciminski Otto C. Junkermann, promotion and merchandising manager for WFRV-TV Green Bay resigns March 1 to open his own combined art and photography business. Junkermann started his TV career at WFRV as art director. RADIO MEDIA Stations change hands: KRIB Mason City, la. was sold for $130,000 by Western Broadcasting Co. to William H. Sandberg and D. Bryce Ekberg of Minneapolis. WIGO Indianapolis stock was sold by Stokes Gresham and Luke Walton to Sarkes Tarzian, Inc. Both sales, subject to FCC approval, were brokered by HamiltonLandis Associates. BPA adds five: Broadcasters' Promotion Assn. launched the new year by adding several new members. They are WQXR New York and KGBT radio and TV Harlington, Tex., joining as voting members. Their representatives will be promotion manager Jerry Greenberg and promotion manager John Goodman respectively. NBC enrolled two new affiliate members, both from the Burbank office. They are Mort Fleischmann, manager of pro file Gelder motion, and Terry M. Keegan, promotion coordinator. Kellogg joined BPA as an associate member, naming Deryl E. Fleming, public relations director, as its official representative. New Florida affil.: WWIL Ft. Lauderdale joined ABC Radio lineup Feb. 15. Station operates with 10 kw on 1580 kc and is owned and operated by Florida Air Power, of which Col. William A. Roberts is president and Bruno M. Kern is vice president and general manager. John T. Gelder, Jr., has been appointed General Manager of WTRF-TV. A 22year veteran of the television in •^l/gr'^m <^^^ h^^ served as 1^^ ^m^ Vice President ! and General Manager of WCHSTV, Charleston, West Virginia; head of WCHS-Radio and WKNA-Radio; and Assistant General Manager of WKWK-Radio, Wheeling. He is a past president of the West Virginia Broadcasters Association and Treasurer of the ABC-TV Affiliates Board of Governors. Bernard J. Nolan to business manager of WINS New York, from WJZTV, the Group W TV station in Baltimore, where he was assistant business manager for the past two years. William E, Smith to technical supervisor at WOWO Ft. Wayne. He's been in the station's engineering department since 1950. Charles Mayo to the sales staff of WHLI Hempstead. He has worked with Duane Jones Advertis'ng and was formerly with WLIB New York. Cullen K. Zethmayr, assistant general manager of WWNS Statesboro, to general manager of WOGA iyivesier, both Georgia. WOGA went on the air in December. Eugene H. Alnwick, a member of Mutual network's sales organization since 1957, to mid-west sales manager, headquartering in Chicago. For several years he was in media at various agencies. Donald W. Bertrand, sales manager of WEBC Duluth, appointed to the new post of manager of regional radio sales for all WMT stations. He'll headquarter in Cedar Rapids. Bertrand has been with the WMT stations since 1957 and has been sales manager of WEBC since 1961. Robert Ramoska to the sales staff of WBBM Chicago, from WAAF where he served on the sales force for two years. Chester S. Miller, general manager and treasurer of Pocono Broadcasting (WVPO) has been named vice president of the company. Miller started his career in radio as a salesman for the company in 1948. Bussell Martin Bussell has been named national sales manager of KITE San Antonio. He joined the station with the I riggVaughn acquisition last March. Prior to that he spent 16 years in the drug industry in both wholesale and retail sales and promotional merchandising. Ten years of this time Bussell was with McKessonRobbins. Dan B. Speare, general manager of KGEE Radio, Bakersfield, was elected a vice president. He's been with the company since June 1962. Bill Roberts to record librarian at KDKA Pittsburgh, succeeding Gil Haag. Timmi Pierce to manager of promotion and publicity for WRC Washington, D.C. She has been assistant to the director of information in executing all merchandising, advertising and promotion at WTOP. James A. McCuIla to west coast manager for ABC News. He'll serve in a triple capacity: responsible for network news from the west coast, news director for KABC Los Angeles, and responsible for all news programs on the ABC western regional network. DELIVERED BY • New Chrysler assembly plant — 6000 new jobs in 1964 • New $8 million hospital. • New Gates Rubber Plant, Freeport, III. — 500 new jobs. • 58th in U. S. in E.B.I, per capita • 78th in U. S. in E.B.I, per household • $1,480,547,000 market. ^W^REX-TV COVERAGE Blanketing Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin — the rich industrial and agricultural heartland ot Mid-America. WREX-TV Remarkable ROCKFORD, ILL. JOE M. BAISCH, V.P. i GEN. MGR. Represented by H.R. Television, Inc. MEMBER GANNETT GROUP February 24, 1964 67