Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1954)
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ly a prerequisite. In uhf as in vhf — or in any business — other prerequisites include good management, aggressive promotion, wide-awake sales force. Of the 9 stations which have gone off air, several were in areas with over 70% conversion.
Production of vhf -uhf sets to date has totaled about 1,645,000. Added to this are an estimated 2,000,000 or more "field conversions" — external and internal converters and sets of strips — for total of at least 5,650,000 uhf reception units manufactured to date.
Personal Notes: George R, Dunham, gen. sales mgr. of WCBS-TV and veteran of 16 years with CBS, on May 17 becomes gen. mgr. of WNBF, Binghamton, N. Y., reporting to TV-radio v.p. Cecil D. Mastin . . . Thomas S. O’Brien promoted to business mgr. of NBC-owned stations and NBC spot sales, succeeding Henry T. Sjogren, named asst, gen. mgr. of WNBQ & WMAQ, Chicago, under new gen. mgr. Jules Herbuveaux . . . Vinton Freedley Jr. promoted to national sales mgr., NBC radio network . . . John D. Scheuer Jr., ex-executive asst, to Roger Clipp, gen. mgr. of WFIL-TV & WFIL, Philadelphia, becomes exec. v.p. & gen. mgr., WTVI, Belleville-St. Louis . . . Richard Depew named asst, to ABC-TV eastern program director Robert F. Lewine . . . George F. Hartford heads TV, Lloyd Dennis takes over for radio in separation of functions by WTOP Inc., Washington . . . Harry Bubeck, ex-NBC western div., now with Zenith Radio Corp. working on its Ch. 2 case, scheduled for May 7 hearing . . . Peter B. Kenney promoted to exec, v.p., WKNB-TV & W^KNB, New Britain, Conn. . . . George Nickson succeeding Robert H. W’esson, resigned, as gen. mgr. of John Poole’s new KBID-TV, Fresno, will also continue as KBIF gen. mgr. there; Gene Grant promoted to sales director for TV & radio, Ray Grant promoted to KBIF sales mgr. . . . W’alter M. Windsor, ex-WGBA, Columbus, Ga., succeeds Frank A. Myers as gen. mgr. of KCMC-TV, Texarkana, Tex. . . . Louis F. Allen resigns as sales mgr. of KOMU-TV, Columbia, Mo., to join W^CPO-TV, Cincinnati . . . Robert O. Paxson promoted to regional sales mgr., KEDD, Wichita . . . John M. Haberlan promoted to national TV sales rep of WKY-TV, Oklahoma City . . . Pat Freeman resigns as research director, Canadian Assn, of Radio & TV Broadcasters . . . Bert Briller promoted to ABC-TV sales development mgr. . . . George C. Dibert, J. Walter Thompson v.p., transferred to Chicago office to work on Swift & Co. account . . . Leonard F. Erikson returns April 30 as v.p. & gen. executive, McCann-Erickson, after 10 months as director of Voice of America . . . A. N. (Bud) Armstrong Jr., ex-gen. mgr. of WCOP, Boston, appointed gen. mgr. of General Teleradio’s WEAN, Providence . . . Roy J. Battersby, onetime NBC & AP, elected v.p.. Hill & Knowlton Inc., public relations . . . Donald S. Shaw, onetime NBC national sales mgr., now adv. director of New Milford (Conn.) Gazette, daily published by Joseph V. Connolly Jr. . . . Edmund Rogers Jr., onetime W’FIL-TV, Philadelphia, recently N. Y. mgr. of TV-radio production. Ward Wheelock Co., joins N. Y. T\^radio dept., N. W. Ayer.
American Newspaper Publishers Assn, elected Richard W. Slocum, gen. mgr. of Philadelphia Bulletin (W^CAU-TV & W^CAU), as new president, succeeding George C. Biggers, pres, of Atlanta Journal and Constitution (WSB-TV & W'’SB). William Dwight, Holyoke Transcript (WHYN-TV & WHYN), was elected v.p.; Franklin B. Schurz, South Bend Tribune (WSBT-TV & W’SBT), reelected to board.
Murry Brophy, 56, onetime CBS artists mgr. in Los Angeles, recently owner of KRUX, Phoenix, and wartime OW’I radio chief, died suddenly April 18 in W'^ashington, where he had been serving as consultant to Senate and House appropriations committees.
Of the 17 members of projected Television Advertising Bureau’s organization committee, representing 24 stations, these attended N. Y. meetings this week (see p. 1) : Richard A. Moore, KTTV, Los Angeles, temporary chairman; Ben Berenston, WGN-TV, Chicago; Richard Borel, WBNS-TV, Columbus; Norman Gittleson, WJAR-TV, Providence; Payson Hall, 4 Meredith stations; George B. Storer Jr. & Tom Harker, 5 Storer stations; W’m. Kiley, WFBM-TV, Indianapolis; Wm. Quarton, WMT-TV, Cedar Rapids; George Whitney, KFMB-TV, San Diego. Not attending but pledging support: Roger W. Clipp, WFIL-TV, Philadelphia; John H. DeWitt Jr., WSM-TV, Nashville; John Fetzer, WKZO-TV, Kalamazoo; Howard Lane, KOIN-TV, Portland; Lee Ruwitch, WTVJ, Miami; Charles Thieriot, KRON-TV, San Francisco; P. A. Sugg, WKY-TV, Oklahoma City.
Members of UHF Industry Coordinating Committee (see p. 4), under temporary chairman Harold H. Thoms, WISE-TV, Asheville, N. C.: Wilton E. Hall & James Posten, W AIM-TV, Anderson, S. C. ; Gary L. Cohen <T Sherwin Grossman, WBUF-TV, Buffalo; Lou Poller, WCAN-TV, Milwaukee; Gil Hutchison, WCOG-TV, Greensboro, N. C. ; Charlie Pittman, WCOS-TV, Columbia, S. C.; Allen M. Woodall, WDAK-TV, Columbus, Ga. ; Ben K. McKinnon, WGVL, Greenville, S. C. ; John Pomeroy, WILS-TV, Lansing, Mich.; Robert L. Heald, WITV, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Joe L. Smith Jr., WKNA-TV, Charleston, W. Va.; Earl Welde, WNAO-TV, Raleigh, N. C.; Harold C. Arcaro, WNET, Providence, R. L; Ellsworth Hall, WNEX-TV, Macon, Ga.; Walter Reade Jr., WRTV, Asbury Park, N. J.; Louis J. Appel Jr., WSBA-TV, York, Pa.; Frank Lyman Jr., WTAO-TV, Cambridge-Boston ; John G. Johnson, WTOB-TV, Winston-Salem, N. C. ; Harry Tenenbaum, WTVI, Belleville, Ill.-St. Louis, Mo.; Haygood S. Bowden & Tom Richards, WACA-TV, Camden, S. C. (CP) ; John Doley & H. A. Seville, WACH-TV, Newport News, Va. (CP) ; L. W. Allen, WFLB-TV, Fayetteville, N. C. (CP).
Associated Press, which gained 83 TV & radio station members in last year to bring total to 1253 (as against 1738 newspaper members in U. S.), has TV-radio ownership prominently identified on its board of directors as constituted at this week’s annual meeting. Robert McLean, Philadelphia Bulletin (WCAU-TV & WCAU), w'as reelected pres.; Clarence B. Hanson Jr., Bii-mingham News (WABT & WAPI), was elected first v.p. Re-elected to board were John C. Knight, Knight Newspapers (owning 45% of WAKR-TV & WAKR, Akron; applicant for Miami) ; James M. Cox Jr., Cox Newspapers (WHIO-TV & WHIG, Dayton; WSB-TV & WSB, Atlanta); Mark Ethridge, Louisville Courier-Journal (WHAS-TV & WHAS). Newly elected to board was Bernard M. Ridder Jr., Duluth News Tribune (WDSM-TV & WDSM; WCCOTV & WCCO, Minneapolis). On executive committee are Ben McKelway, Washington Star (WMAL-TV & WMAL) ; Paul Miller, Gannett Newspapers (WHEC-TV & WHEC, Rochester, et al.).
Dr. David D. Henry, New York U, elected chairman of Joint Committee on Educational TV, succeeding Edgar Fuller, now vice-chaii’man; Ralph Steetle re-elected exec, director.