Television digest with AM-FM reports (Jan-Dec 1951)

6 PcrSOnsl Noiss: Tom Gallery relinquishes sales man agership of DuMont Network to head newly organized sports program sales dept., succeeded by Ted Bergmann; John H. Bachem, ex-NBC & CBS, promoted to asst, sales mgr., succeeding Trevor Adams, who on Aug. 13 joins ABC as mgr. of its WJZ-TV, New York . . . Don L. Kearney, ex-Katz Agency program director, named ABC-TV spot sales mgr., representing its 5 stations . . . Tom J. Maloney, ex-KEYL-TV, San Antonio, joins INS-INP TV dept, as sales and TV film specialist . . . H. Norman Neubert named NBC spot sales mgr. of sales development, advertising & promotion, succeeding Jacob A. Evans, named NBC radio advertising-promotion mgr. . . . Fred N. Dodge, ex-Americaji Weekly and Ptick, joins NBC as director of merchandising for radio under John K. Herbert, radio sales v.p. . . . Thomas H. Peterson, ex-John E. Pearson reps, named mgr., western sales development, CBS Radio Sales . . . William P. Sedgwick promoted to ABC-TV spot sales development mgr., Lillian Dishian promoted to mgr. of radio spot-cooperative program sales promotion, and George W. Huelser named radio network sales mgr. . . . Charlton G. Shaw promoted to executive v.p., A. C. Nielsen Co. . . . Howard Nussbaum, who as an Army colonel served with Armed Forces radio dept., was radio officer on Gen. Bradley’s staff, lately has been special asst, to Stuart Symington at NSRB, assumes newly created post of TVradio director, Harry B. Cohen Adv., N. Y. . . . David Crockett, ex-asst. program director, KING-TV, Seattle, named head of TV-radio dept., MacWilkins, Cole & Weber, Seattle . . . Hal Hoag new western mgr.. Free & Peters, Hollj-wood; Wm. A. Morrison, ex-Sidney Garfield agency, named radio mgr., San Francisco . . . Roy Winsor and Roland Gillett named co-directors, TV-radio dept., Biow Co.; Robert McNeil named dept, coordinator . . . Nathan Halpern is devoting full time to Theatre Network Television Inc. (TNT), of which he is president, having dropped assignments as TV consultant to Fabian Theatres and Theatre Owners of America . . . Lewis Allen Weiss, director of NPA Office of Civilian Requirements, ex-MBS chairman, ex-Don Lee president, appointed chairman of DPA subcommittee on civilian requirements. TGlecasiing NoIgs: United Press business mgr. LeRoy Keller and 20th Century-Fox’s Peter Levathes masterminding new film-&-news service for TV, still in planning stage, think they have answer to hithei'to unsolved problem how to make spot news as important in TV station schedules as in radio . . . No such inhibitions or prohibitions face them, in this project, as faced UP when it first broke down newspaper opposition to sale of its wire news to radio, now a major source of income — they’re letting TV stations tell them what they want and need and are tailoring new service accordingly . . . Meanwhile, INS this week announced new wire service for TV stations, entirely separate from its newspaper-radio circuits — proposing to supply wire news and newsreel film to “provide the woxdd’s first complete basic news service for TV” . . . Kansas City televiewers got birdseye views of flood and fire last week as WDAF-TV trained its telephoto lens on disaster area from its hilltop studios in center of town; film made from flood telecasts was also shown over station later and will be viewed by Congressional committee helping to work out flood relief program . . . Canadian Broadcasting Corp. this week awarded 5-year contract to Bell Telephone Co. for TV network service linking projected new stations in Montreal and Toronto (Vol. 7:22, 29), also permitting their hookup with Buffalo so as to get U. S. network service . . . Cecil B. DeMille may become TV film producer, says Billhoard, DeMille’s long association with Paramount Pictures having “resulted in a strong following among United Paramount Theatres execs, who would like to see the film maker part of ABC’s future film plans” . . . Billboard also sees producer David O. Selznick going into TV films, possibly with close friend Wm. Paley (CBS) in job similar to that now held with NBC-TV by ex-Paramount studio chief Henry Ginsberg . . . A. J. Balaban, one of founders of Chicago’s Balaban & Katz theatre circuit, to quit as executive director of New York’s Roxy Theatre Jan. 1 to produce live TV show. Cavalcade of the Motion Picture Theatre . . . TV Hooperatings monthly in 23 multi-station cities, thrice yearly (or oftener, as demanded) in 27 singlestation cities, are promised in new project by C. E. Hooper, who will discontinue his 12-city program popularity ratings; Hooper recently sold his TV-radio national-regional rating services to A. C. Nielsen . . . Hopalong Cassidy Enterprises, 8907 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, Cal., now offering users of its TV films 15 & 50-second commercials tailored to local retail sponsors . . . Credit courses in TV now offered by Brooklyn College, Boston U, Western Reserve U . . . Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, plans $820,000 alteration in 710-seat lecture hall to provide TVradio facilities . . . WINX, 250-watt AM which cost Washington Post $500,000 in 1944, lost nearly that much in operation, was sold for $130,000 in 1949, is being sold again — for $95,000 instead of $120,000 originally proposed (Vol. 7:26) . . . WJZ-TV, New York, on Aug. 1 extends Class C time full hour up to 6 p.m.; 7-7:30 Mon. thru Sat. will be Class B, 7:30-10:30 Class A. Also offered are new frequency discounts for use of 2 or more ABC-owned stations, and eliminated is 20-second rate in Class B & C times . . . KGO-TV, San Francisco, new Aug. 15 rate card raises basic hour rate from $480 to $600, one-min. from $80 to $120, changes Class A time to 7-10:30 p.m. Mon.Fri., 6-10:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. Following 43 stations may increase powers quickly, under new FCC ruling (see p. 1), simply by boosting transmitter output to 5 kw from current operating figures indicated: WBRC-TV, Birmingham, 4.06 kw; KNBH (2.97) & KTSL (1.1), Los Angeles; KPIX, San Francisco, 4.9; WTVJ, Miami, .44; WAGA-TV, Atlanta, 3.4; WBKB (2.18), WENR-TV (4.42), WGN-TV (1.92) & WNBQ (4.69), Chicago; WHBF-TV, Rock Island, 2.36; WOI-TV, Ames (Des Moines), 4.14; WAVE-TV (1.37) & WKAS-TV (.89), Louisville; WMAR-TV, Baltimore, 4.83; WWJ-TV, Detroit, 3.35; WLAV-TV, Grand Rapids, 3.5; WKZO-TV, Kalamazoo, 2.55; KMTV (3.53) & WOW-TV (4.7), Omaha; WNBFTV, Binghamton, 2.5, WCBS-TV (1.87), WJZ-TV (.81), WNBT (1.42), WOR-TV (2.04) & WPIX (3.5) , New York; V/HAM-TV, Rochester, 3.81; WHEN (2.78) & WSYR-TV (4.45), Syracuse; WKTV, Utica, 2.25; WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, 4.4; WNBK (4.2) & WXEL (4.1), Cleveland; WTVN, Columbus, 1.52; WKY-TV, Oklahoma City, 3.85; KOTV, Tulsa, 4.76; WJAC-TV, Johnstown, 3.5; WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, 4.41; WSM-TV, Nashville, 3.02; KRLD-TV, Dallas, 2.52; WTAR-TV, Norfolk, 4.96; WTVR, Richmond, 3.53; WSAZ-TV, Huntington, 3.6. At week’s end, these had already applied for power boosts: KTSL, WTVJ, WBKB, WGN-TV, WAVE-TV, KMTV, WOR-TV, WHAMTV, WHEN, WKTV, WXEL, WTVN, WICU, WSM-TV, KRLD-TV. # * * ♦ RCA describes full line of transmitting equipment in new brochure, offers up to 200 kw on any vhf or uhf channel. Vhf transmitters are 500-watts, 2 kw, 10 kw, 20 kw, 50 kw. Vhf Antennas are 3, 5, 6 or 12-bay, plus “SuperGain” special installation. Uhf transmitters are 1 kw & 10 kw antenna is slotted type, Bridgeport’s being prototype. DuMont offers new camera chain, claims number of improvements, including extension of image orthicon life up to 1500 hours and easy convertibility to CBS color.