Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1958)

7 MARTIN CODEl, Publisher ROBERT CADEL, Bus. Mgr. ALBERT WARREN, Senior Ed. WILLIAM WIGHT.ManagingEd. Associate Editors: Weekly Newsletters Published Saturdays WILBUR H. BALDINGER Television Factbooks Published in March & September PAUL STONE AM-FM Directory Published in January WM. J. McMAHON Jr. TV and AM-FM Addenda Published Weekly BERYL 0. HINES Copyright 1958 by Te/evii/on Digest, Inc. Personal Notes: Charles H. Colledge, NBC-TV facilities v.p., named gen. mgr. of newly leorganized RCA broadcast & TV equipment div., Camden, reporting to Theodore A. Smith, v.p.-industrial electronics; under Colledge will come E. C. Tracy, as mgr. of broadcast marketing; Elmer Trouant, chief engineer; G. J. Adams, administration, and chiefs (yet to be named) of closed-circuit and high-power & nucleonics depts. . . . John Green, ABC-TV program mgr., promoted to network exec, producer, reporting to programming v.p. Thomas W. Moore; Leonard Maskin, production services mgr., promoted to new post of administrative mgr., program dept.; John Kneeshaw, plant seiwices supervisor, promoted to business mgr. of production services, succeeded by Arthur Segal . . . Wm. V. Sargent, ex-NBC-TV network administration director, named v.p.administration of TelePrompTer . . . James F. O’Grady Jr., ex-DuMont & ABC, recently in charge of Chicago office, named exec, v.p.. Young Television Corp.; rep firm also promoted Harold M. Parks from mgr. of Atlanta office to eastern sales mgr., successor in Atlanta being Melvin E. Whitmore . . . David Polinger, from NTA’s radio WNTA, named gen. mgr. of spot sales for WNTA-TV, NewarkN. Y. and KMSP-TV, Minneapolis-St. Paul; Paul O’Brien, from NTA spot sales, joins WNTA-TV as sales mgr.; Joseph Morris, attorney for NTA stations, also becomes business mgr. of WNTA-TV & WNTA . . . Arthur Tweet, secy. & 20% owner of Community TV Corp., Grand Forks, N. D. (KNOX-TV & KNOX), elected pres, to succeed late Elroy Schroeder . . . Lloyd E. Yoder, now NBC v.p. & gen. mgr. of WNBQ & WMAQ, Chicago, was one of 50 exDenverites honored at Centennial celebration Oct. 29 with Distinguished Citizens Award; he managed Denver’s KOA for 12 years when it was owned by NBC, took leading part in civic affairs . . . William S. Hedges, NBC v.p., general services, 1928-39 pres, of NAB, named chairman of host club’s convention committee for Rotary International Convention to be held in N. Y. June 7-11 with expected attendance of 20,000 . . . S. Ray West Jr. pi’omoted to ABC-TV supervisor of cooperative & sustaining programs . . . Gordon Hellmann, ex-TvB sales promotion director, named sales development director of Transcontinent TV Corp. . . . Ben Shropshire, ex-KIMA-TV, Tacoma, named mgr. of KLEW-TV, Lewiston, Ida., succeeding Willard W. Thomas, who resigned to set up own adv. agency in Spokane . . . Joseph Sergio promoted to business mgr. of WISN-TV, Milwaukee, John Hinkle succeeding him as chief accountant . . . Raymond F. Kohn, pioneer FM broadcaster who founded and heads WFMZ, Allentown, Pa., named gen. mgr. of Teleradio’s WGMS, Washington good music station, which on Nov. 1 severs MBS affiliation which goes to WOL . . . Jerome A. Barnes, program director of satellite WRLP, Greenfield, Mass. (Ch. 32) promoted to program director of parent WWLP, Springfield (Ch. 22) and of WWOR-TV, Worcester (Ch. 14), due in Nov. . . . Wm. T. Stubblefield resigned Oct. 31 from broker Hamilton, Stubblefield, Twining & Assoc, to open own consulting office in Ring Bldg., Washington . . . Donald C. Palmer, ex-radio KGFJ, Los Angeles, named mgr. of rep Meeker’s new office there . . . Alvin E. Unger, ex-Ziv, and Stanley Levey, promoted, named administrative mgr. & sales mgr., respectively, of Arrow Productions, new div. of Jack Wrather’s ITC set up by pres. Walter Kingsley for sales & counseling on re-runs . . . Raymond W. Wild, ex-MCATV, named central div. v.p. of Gross-Krasne-Sillerman . . . Bernard L. Schubert, chairman of Telestar Films Inc., N. Y., also named pres., succeeding Sy Weintraub, resigned . . . John C. Sebastian, ex-CBS Films, heads new N. Y. office of Low Smith Organization (publicity) to handle Independent TV Corp. . . . Len Levy, ex-Kling Films, heads new Chicago office of Robert Lawrence Productions . . . Peter M. Piech, ex-Screencraft Pictures v.p., named sales v.p. of Producers Assoc, of TV, N. Y. Correction: Wm. E. Goetze, exec. v.p. & gen. mgr. of KFSD-TV & KFSD, San Diego, has announced the appointment of Frank Reynolds, ex-San Diego Chamber of Commerce, as adv. & promotion mgr. Mr. Reynolds’ name was inadvertently omitted from previous item (Vol. 14:42). Obituary Mann Holincr, Gl, ex-v.p., director and chief of early radio operations of Lennen & Mitchell, later Kudner Agency’s TV-radio director, died Oct. 27 at his home in Hollywood — 20 months after his wife’s death. They were authors of the musical Cindy & Sam, wrote songs for such past stage productions as Blackbirds, Hey Nanny Nanny, Rhapsody in Black, Angela. He is survived by 2 brothers, 2 sisters. Glenn Wilson Johnson, 35, producei-director of WBTV, Charlotte, died Oct. 26. lie is survived by his widow and a daughter. W. Arthur Lee, 59, pres, of Lce-Stockham Adv., died Oct. 25 in N. Y. Sui'viving are widow, daughter. Joseph Reinhard Joyce, 49, v.p. of Donohue & Coe, died in New York Oct. 28 of heai t ailment. He is survived by widow. Charles Egelston, 72, who for 20 years played “Shuffle Shober’’ on CBS’s daytime serial Ma Perkins, died Oct. 31 in N.Y. Emilio Azearraga, pres, of Telesistema Mexicano, network operating XEW-TV, Mexico City (Ch. 2), owner of theatres and radio stations, holder of CPs for at least 7 new TVs in his country (see TV Faetbook No. 27, p. 304) named one of winners of Maria Moors Cabot gold medals for advancing inter-American friendship. Award was established by Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Boston, and is made annually by trustees of Columbia U on recommendation of Edward W. Barrett, dean of its School of Journalism. Mutual’s new pres. Alexander L. Guterma, 43, born in Siberia and raised in Far East where he amassed fortune after war, U. S. citizen only 2 years, having come here in 1950 to retire, is subject of sketch in Oct. 10 Printers’ Ink, which captions its article: “Mystery man from the Far East starts to rebuild Mutual, offers to buy out ABC.” Axel Jensen, Bell Labs director of visual & acoustic research, retiring Nov. 1 at age 62, has joined Matty Fox’s Skiatron of America Inc., pay TV licensor, as consultant, reporting to Skiati’on v.p. Richard Hemingway; he’s succeeded at Bell Labs by his asst.. Dr. E. E. David.