U. S. Radio (Jan-Dec 1961)

GOOD NE S! 6 out of 10 copies of SPONSOR go to BUYERS OF TIME! RADIO FOCUS/people Vaney named managing director of the California Broadcasters Assn. . . . Arnold Smith appointed national sales coordinator of WFYI Garden City, X V. . . . Thomas R. Bishop named general sales managei ol WSAI Cincinnati . . . Tim Crow appointed director of the newly ( i eated drp.n Intent of quality con trol and program development at the Rollins Broadcasting-Telecasting Co. . . . Robert B. Gordon, former comptroller ol the Gresh & Kramer Vdvei t ising Agency, joins the staff of WIP Philadelphia as business manage] . . . Alan Henry appointed general manager ol KVVK St. Louis. Reed M. Badgley appointed marketing and sales promotion manager of WkMIl Detroit. . . . Michael P. Mallardj joins Radio Press International as assistant to the general manager. . . . Herman Maxwell named sales manager of WINS New York. Maxwell was formerly director of sales for WNBC radio. . . . Weston C. Pullen, Jr., a vice president ol I ime Inc., appointed president and a director of Time-Life Broadcast, Inc. Vice presidents and directors of the company, which will consolidate all the broadcasting activities of Time Inc., include F. S. Gilhert, formerly general manager of Time Magazine, and Sig MLkelson, formerly president of CBS News. . . . Ward M. Cornell appointed manager of CFPL London, Canada. Cornell moves up from the post of program manager. . . . Monte DeVon named manager of KIMA Yakima, Wash. DeVon previously was in the sales department of KIMA-TV. . . . Earl R. Harper, a sportscas^er for WHIH Tidewater, Va., named the station's sales manager. . . . John T. McLean appointed director of sales development for WDAF Washington, D. C. McLean was formerly manager of radio promotion and research at WDAF. . . . Oliver Allen, former program director at WRAP Norfolk, moves to WAOK Atlanta to take over the position of coordinating director and production manager. Allen also will be production manager of the newly formed AOK Management Services, Inc. . . . Dale Drake moves into the post of national-regional sales manager for KXOL Fort Worth. . . . Wendell B. Campbell, managing director ol RGBS Los Angeles, and John C. Moler, managing director ol YVIIH. Philadelphia, both ele< ted vice presidents of the Storer Broadcasting Co. . . . Rogert Garett, general manage] of WBOY Clarksburg W. Va., elected mayor of the city. Networks Everett H. Erlick elected vice president and general counsel of Americ an Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. Erlick moves ovet from Young & Rubicam, where he was a vice-president in the radio-tv department. Elmer W. Lower, manager of NBC news in Washington, named NBC's director of news and public: affairs. . . . William B. Monroe Jr., news director of WDSU-TV New Orleans and president of the Radio-Television News Directors Assn., replaces Lower as manager of NBC news in Washington. . . . Jack H. Mann pro moted to post of director of ABC Radio Pacific and ABC Radio West. . . . Harry E. Hobbs Jr. appointed to position of central division sales manager for NBC. Hobbs was previously eastern sales manager. Industry Mike Schaffer, director of promotion and advertising at WFIL Philadelphia, elected to the board of directors of the Broadcasters' Promotion Assn. . . . Charles A. Sobel joins Universal Marketing Research, an affiliate of Alfred Politz Research, Inc., as a senior project director . . . Charles J. Wade named a vice president of the Lanolin Plus Co. . . . Frank Lander appointed vice president for national sales of Teen America Associates, Inc. Lander previously was an account executive with Dunnan and Jeffrey, Inc. Dr. L. Curtis Foster elected vice president of Zenith Radio Research Corporation, Menlo Park, Cal., a subsidiary of Zenith Radio Corp. . . . Herminio Traviesas, vice president of BBD&O, named chairman of the Radio and Television Executives Society's membership committee for 1961-62. The Society now boasts its highest membership in its 21 years with a roster of 1,208. ■ 42 U. S. RADIO/August 1961