Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Television digest with electronic reports
Date:
Jan-Dec 1954
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1954)
Leaf #:
000240
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television broadcasting -- Periodicals, Television -- United States -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals.
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A weekly digest of brief reports tracking recent developments in the U.S. television marketplace. Published out of Washington, D.C. with much more focus on the retail of TV sets than the other D.C.-based trade paper, BROADCASTING. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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4 affiliate. Col. B.J. Palmer, veteran broadcaster, heads project with Paul A. Loyet as v.p.-gen. mgr. ; Harold Fulton, commercial mgr. ; Jack Kerrigan, program mgr. ; Reed Snyder, chief engineer. Owning 40% by reason of merger deal is Ralph Atlass* Independent Bcstg. Co., which sold local KIOA but still owns WLOL, Minneapolis. Only TV competitor in immediate area is KGTV, Des Moines (Ch. 17) and Iowa State College's WOI-TV, Ames (Ch. 5). WHO-TV uses 10-kw RCA transmitter with 700-ft. tower. Its RCA 12-section superturnstile had to be rebuilt after it fell in Feb., causing |40,000 damages and delaying start. Base hour rate is $550. Rep is Free & Peters. WDEF-TV, Chattanooga, Tenn. (Ch. 12) opened up brand new market with April 15 tests which brought "excellent reception reports from more than 100 miles," as wired by pres. Carter M. Parham. Nearest other TV is in Rome, Ga. , 54 air miles, with no others nearer than Knoxville, Nashville & Atlanta, all more than 100 mi. Chattanooga still has lihf Ch. 49 WOUC pending since Aug. 1952, also had another Ch. 43 \ahf grant which FCC cancelled on oilman Tom Potter for lack of diligence. WDEF-TV becomes NBC interconnected, CBS secondary, goes commercial April 25. It uses 10-kw RCA transmitter, 300-ft. Emsco tower on nearby Signal Mt. FCC this week approved new stock setup whereby WDEF group owns 45% ; Tri-State Telecasting Corp. , 27.5%; Southern Television Inc., 27.5%. WDEF's Mr. Parham remains pres. -gen. mgr.; Moses Lebovitz (Southern), v.p. ; Alex Guerry Jr. (Tri-State), treas. ; Edward Finley Jr., secy. Station mgr. is Harold E. Anderson, ex-KOLN-TV, Lincoln, Neb., with Morris Quave, program mgr. ; Otis Segler, local sales mgr. ; B.C. Baker, chief engineer. Base hour is $350, rep Branham. KRGV-TV, Weslaco, Tex. (Ch. 5), long delayed by series of antenna mishaps (Vol. 10:5,13), began operating commercially as an NBC & DuMont affiliate April 11, day after first test patterns went on air. It's just 18 mi. from Harlingen, 36 mi. from Brownsville-Matamoros , where only other stations in rich Rio Grande Valley are located. It uses 5-kw GE transmitter with GE antenna atop 700-ft. tower. Owner O.L. (Ted) Taylor, who recently sold his rep firm to Raymer, is also applicant for Ch. 3 in Wichita. His TV director is Millman Rochester, with Byron Ogle as station mgr. ; Allan Page, sales mgr. ; Lewis Hartwig, chief engineer. Base rate is $200, rep Raymer. Personal Notes: Jules Herbuveaux promoted to gen. mgr. of NBC’s WNBQ & WMAQ, Chicago, succeeding the late Harry C. Kopf . . . A. E. Joscelyn, ex-CBS, organizing new KHOF, Stockton, Cal. (Ch. 13), Mt. Diablo project headed by H. Leslie Hoffman, TV-radio manufacturer; Wm. Hollenbeck, ex-KGO-TV, named program mgr.; Stanton D. Bennett, ex-KOMO-TV, Seattle, chief engineer . . . John H. Smith Jr., NARTB promotion mgr., appointed public affairs mgr., assuming publications & information duties handled by administrative v.p. Robert K. Richards . . . Bernard I. Ochs promoted to gen. sales mgr., WLWA, Atlanta . . . Michael Horton, who organized NBC color information program, named network information director, in charge of expanded institutional & public services . . . Roy Dabadie named gen. mgr. of upcoming WBRZ, Baton Rouge, La. (Ch. 2), due in Sept.; Charles Garvey succeeds him as gen. mgr. of AM affiliate WJBO . . . Robert Owen resigns as chief engineer of KOA-TV & KOA, Denver, to join RCA Service Co., Camden . . . Theodore B. Pitman Jr. promoted to gen. mgr. of WTAO-TV & WTAO, CambridgeBoston, replacing Frederic S. Bailey, resigned; Richard H. Gurley Jr. named TV sales mgr., Fred H. Stein program supervisor . . . Dick J. Hasten named gen. mgr. of KSTMTV, St. Louis; Wm. Knight, sales mgr. . . . Ralph Sacks resigns as sales mgr. of new uhf KSAN-TV, San Francisco . . . John R. Taylor returns to Pocatello, Ida. to be gen. mgr. of KWIK-TV (Ch. 10), Carmen-Wrathall station due in fall, after being sales mgr. of KIFI, Idaho Falls . . . John B. Burns promoted to midwest mgr., ABC Film Syndication Inc.; Miss Lee Francis, ex-CBS-TV Film Sales, promotion mgr. . . . Charles M. Amory, ex-v.p. Eagle-Lion Studios & Pathe Labs, heads newly formed Minot TV Inc., distribution firm associated with Motion Picture Adv. Service and United Film Service . . . Harry Wayne McMahan, who in 1939 founded Five Star Productions Inc., Holly wood, joins McCann-Erickson N. Y. copy plans board in charge of TV-radio commercials . . . Peter Arnold Krug, ex-Hicks & Greist, named TV-radio director, Calkins & Holden, Carlock, McClinton & Smith; he succeeds Henry Hull Jr., now TV consultant in England . . . Timothy J. O’Leary, ex-William Esty Co., joins Calkins & Holden, Carlock, McClinton & Smith as TV-radio timebuyer . . . Dan Potter, ex-Benton & Bowles v.p. on Procter & Gamble account, joins TV dept., William Esty Co. . . . Earl M. Willhite, ex-sales mgr., KMO-TV, Tacoma, Wash., now partner in Hunter Adv. Agency, Hollywood . . . Leonard Blair, ex-ABC eastern program director, recently associate producer of The Mask, joins Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample as producer of Valiant Lady on CBS-TV for General Mills & Toni . . . Roger Pryor, TV-radio v.p., Foote, Cone & Belding, nominated for pres., Radio-Television Executives of N. Y.; Robert Burton, BMI v.p., first v.p.; Elliott Sanger, WQXR, 2nd v.p.; Claude Barrere, BMI, secy.; Joe McDonald, NBC, treas. ■ Top FCC jobs now completely out of civil service merit system — reclassified from Schedule A to Schedule C this week — are gen. counsel, chief engineer and chief accountant. Change makes appointments and removals entirely up to FCC without reference to civil service status. Still pending is FCC request that secretary be given same status. Edward T. Ingle, for 7 years TV-radio director of Republican National Committee and now in public relations consulting practice, has been retained by Citizens for Eisenhower Committee, Dupont Circle Bldg., Washington, to handle TV-radio-film phases of Congressional campaign. Edward Barry Roberts, script editor of Armstrong Circle Theatre on NBC-TV, author of new book titled Television Writing & Selling, published by The Writer Inc.