Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1953)
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WTAR-TV (Ch. 4) switched affiliation from NBC to CBS. Area's third grantee, WTOV-TV (Ch. 27), plans to begin this month. With no network affiliation, WACH's initial programming is on film, with base hour rate of $200. Grantee also owns radio WHYU, principal stockholder being John Doley. Etoyse Patterson is commercial mgr. ; Thomas 0. Bradshaw Jr., operations mgr. Rep is Avery-Knodel.
WTAP, Parkersburg, W.Va. (Ch. 15) turned on test patterns in new TV area at 2 p.m. Oct. 8 from RCA transmitter on Dole's Knob, Constitution, 0. It's second uhf in W.Va. , will serve area including Marietta, 0., across Ohio River, is 42.5% owned by Howard L. Chernoff, mgr. of San Diego's KFMB-TV. Pres. & gen. mgr. is Ted Eiland, ex-program director, WSAZ-TV, Huntington, W.Va. Sales mgr. is James F. Cox; program-production mgr. Don Painter, chief engineer George W. DeBlieux. Base hour rate is $150. Rep is Forjoe.
WIFE; Dayton, 0. (Ch. 22), first uhf in market with 2 pre-freeze stations, turned on test pattern at 2:55 p.m. Oct. 3, using GE 12-kw transmitter. Dayton's 2 vhf stations — WHIO-TV (Ch. 7) & WLWD (Ch. 2) — both have been on air since 1949. Ronald B. Woodyard, pres. & gen. mgr., and Loren M. Berry, v.p., hold principal ownership in grantee corporation, which is licensee of Dayton's radio WONE. Woodyard & Berry also own Pittsburgh grantee WTVQ (Ch. 47), whose sale to Edward Lamb awaits FCC approval (Vol.9:30). New Dayton outlet is DuMont affiliate, has $300 base rate. Staff under Woodyard includes commercial mgr. Roger J. LaReau, program mgr. Del Shook, chief engineer Joseph Gill. Rep is Headley-Reed.
WTSK, Knoxville, Tenn. (Ch. 26) began daily test patterns this week after first cne-hour test Oct. 1, following by about a week its vhf competitor WROL-TV (Ch. 6), which turned on power Sept. 24. Equipped with 17-kw Federal transmitter and Workshop antenna at same location as studio on Sharps Ridge, 3 miles north of center of city, station plans to begin CBS & DuMont programming Oct. 18 via kinescope, reports "clear pictures throughout metropolitan area" and as far as Athens, 50 miles south. Station is owned 80% by oil producer W.R. Tuley; 20% each by Harold H. Thoms, owner of WISE-TV, Asheville, N.C., and J. Horton Doughton, who with Thoms is part owner of grantees WAYS-TV, Charlotte & WCOG-TV, Greensboro, N.C. Harold B. Rothrock, ex-Washington consulting engineer, is v.p. -gen. mgr. ; Jay Miller, Jerry Danziger and Peter Fenelly, all formerly of WTTV, Bloomington, are production mgr. , program mgr. and chief video technician, respectively; Guy L. Smith 3d, commercial mgr.;
Joe Broyles, chief engineer. Hour rate is $250. Pearson is rep.
2 CPs, DEBUT OF PROVIDENCE STATION DELAYED: FCC issued 2 CPs and 2 initial decisions this week and, in unique action, ordered WPRO-TV, Providence (Ch. 12) to postpone its start pending disposition of protest filed by Providence grantee WNET (Ch. 16).
The week's CPs: Terre Haute, Ind., WTHI , Ch. 10; Madison, Wis., Wisconsin State Radio Council, Ch. 21 (educational). Initial decisions favored: WSFA, Montgomery, Ala., Ch. 12; Alf M. Landon (WREN), Topeka, Kan., Ch. 42.
WTHI's CP was made possible by dropout of competitor John R. Figg, but it's subject to final court decision on appeal of WSAL, Logansport, which contests the allocation of Ch. 10 to Terre Haute. Alf Landon, Republican presidential candidate in 1936, was favored in initial decision when competing R.F. Schoonover dismissed. WSFA, Montgomery, became free for grant after FCC ruled competitor Wm. Benns tried to amend his application too extensively and too near hearing time.
Commission decision to hold up WPRO-TV's on-air debut climaxed hot allegation by WNET that big "pay-off" of $205,500 was involved in dismissals of 2 applications which paved way for CP, countered by WPRO-TV's answer that not only was no skulduggery involved but that WNET hasn't moved a muscle to build since getting CP April 8. Comr. Doerfer dissented, said Commission ought to get station on the air first, listen to argument later. If protestant really had public interest at heart, he said, "he would himself have made substantial progress in the construction of facilities to implement the grant made to him almost 6 months ago."
FCC acted quickly on Hearst's petition to add Ch. 6 to Whitefish Bay, Wis., just north of Milwaukee (Vol.9:40), initiating rule-making to put plan into effect. It also scheduled another hearing: San Jose, Ch. 11, Nov. 6.