Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1958)

7 MARTIN CODE!, Publish* ROBERT CADEL, Bus. Mgr. ALBERT WARREN, Senior Ed. WILLIAM WIGHT.ManagingEd. Associate Editors: Weekly Newsletters Pudlished Saturdays WILBUR H. BALOINGER Television Factbooks Published in February & August STONE AM-FM Directory Published in January J. McMAHON, Jr. TV and AM-FM Addenda Published Weekly BERYL 0. HINES Copyright 1958 by Jeiovision Digost, Inc* Personal Notes: Jack Reber, recently resigned director of NBC-TV Spot Sales and ex-sales mgr. of WRCA-TV, N. Y. on June 2 joined Cascade Broadcasting Co., Yakima, Wash. (Thomas C. Bostic, gen. mgr.) as exec, coordinator of its KIMA-TV, Yakima (Ch. 25), its 3 TV satellites and its 3 radio stations (see TV Factbook No. 26, p. 256) . . . Lester Bernstein, associate editor of Time, joins NBC July 14 as director of information, replacing Michael Horton, now director of CBS news dept, information, handling speeches, policy statements, etc.; Bernstein reports to exec. v.p. Ken Bilby . . . Frank Stanton, pres, of CBS, returns from European trip June 15, having left at end of May when chairman Wm. S. Paley returned from abroad; CBS-TV exec. v.p. Hubbell Robinson has gone to London and Paris to plan production of new film seines. The Invisible Man . . . P. A. (Buddy) Sugg, NBC v.p., named a director of TvB . . . Gene Accas resigns as v.p. of ABC-TV to take executive post with Grey Adv., N. Y. . . . C. R. Watts promoted to new post of asst. gen. mgr. of KROD-TV, El Paso . . . Charles E. Denny, onetime mgr. of WSEE, Erie, named gen. mgr. of radio WBNY, Buffalo . . . Francis H. Conway promoted to sales mgr. of WDAU-TV, Scranton, succeeding Tony Moe, now gen. mgr. of radio KSO, Des Moines . . . John Cummins, ex-KFMB-TV, San Diego, named local sales mgr. of WFGA-TV, Jacksonville . . . Robert M. Flanigan, ex-midwest radio national sales mgr. for Storer stations, joins John E. Pearson Co. Chicago office . . . Beryl D. Hines, ex-CBS News, joins Television Digest as an associate editor . . . Wm. O. Tilenius takes extended leave of absence from rep John Blair & Co., succeeded by John Doscher, ex-NBC network sales . . . Bernard Kobres, exsales mgr. of WSUN-TV, St. Petersburg, foi-ms Kobres Adv., Tampa . . . .Martin Manulis, ex-producer of CBS Playhouse !)(), named production mgr. of 20th Century-FoxTV, Hollywood, succeeding Henry Asher, now sales mgr. in N. Y. . . . Robert O. Hall, takes leave of absence as head of cinema dept., U of So. Cal., to join program staff of Educational TV & Radio Center, Ann Arbor, for a year . . . Karl A. Smith has retired from Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson, whose TV-radio specialists also include Duke M. Patrick, Lester Cohen, Corwin Lockwood, Parker Hancock, Stanley S. Harris. FCC Comr. Robert T. Bartley was sworn in for second term June 5, Chairman Doerfer administering oath. As preface to ceremony, Doerfer noted jocularly that swearing in, in cases of reappointment, usually comes at end of tenn (June 30) — “but in this case we’re overruling Bob, as we usually do, and giving him a little overlap.” Reference was to Bartley’s policy of dissenting on grants of applications to multiple owners when coverage of their stations overlap. Louis C. Stephens, from FCC rules & standards div., appointed legal as.st. to Comr. John S. Cross; Bruce S. Longfellow, from technical & allocations branch, engineering asst. ADVERTISING AGENCIES: Wm. D. Tyler, ex-Leo Burnett, named v.p. of Benton & Bowles . . . Kirk L. Billings, ex-Emerson Drug, named v.p. of Lennen & Newell . . . Vincent F. Aiello, ex-Kudner, named senior v.p. of MacManus, John & Adams . . . Harry C. Graybill promoted to v.p. of N. W. Ayer’s San Francisco office; Raymond W. Heffron to v.p. of Boston office, succeeding E. Craig Greiner, retired . . . Raymond J. Nason & Dudley R. Martin promoted to v.p.’s of Meldrum & Fewsmith, Cleveland . . . Tom McAvity became v.p. in charge of TV-radio programming in home office of McCann-Erickson June 1; George Haight named v.p. in charge of west coast TV-radio programming services . . . Russell C. Doyle promoted to pres, of Doyle, Kitchen & McCoinnick, succeeding H. B. Doyle who continues as chairman . . . James J. Tennyson promoted to v.p. of Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles . . . E. M. Sinclair, from Chicago office, elected v.p., Leo Burnett Co. of Canada Ltd., Toronto . . . Eugene I. Harrington, expres. of Fletcher D. Richards, N. Y., named chairman of Honig-Cooper, Harrington & Miner, San Francisco . . . Eugene Hulshizer promoted to v.p. of Doherty, Clifford, Steers & Shenfield . . . Robert A. Mogge named v.p. of Arthur R. Mogge, Chicago . . . Douglas C. Manson, ex-v.p. Benton & Bowles, named director of public relations for Joseph Katz Co., N. Y. and Baltimore. Frank M. Russell, NBC Washington v.p., has signed 5-year contract with network to represent it with own consulting firm after July 1. He opens offices then at 1737 DeSales St. NW, will also continue representing parent RCA on special matters. No successor to his vice presidency is planned. NBC pres. Robert Sarnoff stated that contract was made “to assure ourselves of his seiwices beyond his normal retirement date in 1960.” Russell joined NBC in 1929 under its first pres., M. H. Aylesworth, having served as aide to several Secretaries of Agriculture after graduation from Iowa State and a period as a newsman. Irl T. Newton Jr., ex-RCA mgr. of broadcast and TV antenna & tower equipment, 1945-52 associate of consultant Everett L. Dillard, has opened own TV-radio consulting engineering offices at 422 Washington Bldg., Washington (Executive 3-7165) and at 17 Grove St., Haddonfield, N. J. (Hazel 9-4986). He’s well known for planning woi’k on multiple TV antenna installations, last year gave paper on subject at NARTB convention. Rev. Clayton T. Griswold, who founded and has headed United Presbyterian Church’s TV-radio dept, since 1948, was paid high tribute and presented with commemorative plaque by dept, chairman Clair R. McCollough (WGALTV, Lancastei’, Pa.) at Presbyterian union assembly in Pittsburgh this week. He retired recently, has been succeeded as exec, director by Rev. Lawrence W. McMaster Jr. Herman D. Kenin, Los Angeles & Portland violinistlawyer, personally chosen to be new pres, of American Federation of Musicians by retiring pres. James Caesar Petrillo, was formally elected at Philadelphia convention this week. American Women in Radio & TV will meet June 13-15 in Washington for “summer jubilee” week end as guests of local chapter. Hotel Assn, of Washington. Obituary Thomas C. Rockwell, 56, chairman of General Artist Corp., died of a heart attack in St. Vincent’s hospital, N. Y., May 29. William B. Henri, 71, retired pres, of Henri, Hurst & McDonald, died in Chicago May 21.