Variety (October 1952)

54 RAMO-TELEWIM ' # jwihl # wucrJ E- yykRiETT Wednesday, October 8, 1952 Crosett, Ark.—Julian Haas, for- mer commercial manager of KARK in Little Rock has moved here and bought KAGH, daytime indie. The new owner is expected to file for television and also announced that-* Alfred Shirley is his new program; director. ' Kansas City — 1 Jack Kir wan has been * appointed director of radio and television for the BFUce B. Brewer agency here. He formerly was with WHAS-TV, Louisville. Louisville—Jack Boyle, director of television at WAVE-TV, left last week to become director of radio and TV for Reynolds Metals Co. George Patterson, TV pro- gram director for the statioji, be- comes TV program and production manager, aided by Walter Wither- bee who becomes production direc- tor. Atlanta—Appointment of Ned Lukens as program director of WEAS here, was announced by W. H. (Bill) Keller, v.p. and general manager of the E. D. Rivers, Jr. station. Kansas City, Mo.—Clarence Bre- azeal, assistant manager of KCMO, wa s elected president of ‘the Kiwanis Club here last week. Regina, Sask.—Donald J. Oaks, sales manager of CKRM, Regina, has been appointed manager of the station succeeding Norman Bot- terill, manager since 1949, who be- comes manager of CJOC, Leth- bridge, Alta. Oaks, formerly of CFAC, Calgary, has beei\ sales manager of CKRM . since 1948. Harry Dane, with the station for 18 years, becomes sales manager. Columbus — Henry O'Neill, for- mer announcer for WOSU here and chief announcer and farm edi- tor of WHOK, Lancaster, O., named fulltime announcer at WLW-C, Crosley TV outlet here. Houston—Jack McGraw, assis- tant manager and commercial man- ager of KPRC and KPRC-TV, has been name.d TV chairman for the United Fund Drive here. » Houston — Roy Hof heinz, who gave up a promising political career to enter the broadcasting field and who now has three radio stations, may enter politics again. Hofheinz announced here that he may be a candidate for local may- or. At one time Hofheinz was former county judge here. He op- erates KTHT here and KSOX, Harlingen. Minneapolis —Bob DeHaven, one of WCGJO’S t op personalities. Writes monthly gossip column which he distributes tb friends... A.3*.&T. long-lines department has announced plans for ,TV channels from Chicago to Minneapolis which now is connected to the television network by means of a coaxial cable from Des Moines. It also made public here that a construc- tion application has been filed with the F.CC calling for a $5,000,’000 microwave radio-relay system con- necting Minneapolis with Milwau- kee, and Chicago, The project will provide 500 telephone circuits... •WCiCOrTV staged 30-mihute. night show for the Community Chest. PITT’S TWO-STATION CONFLICT ON N.D. GAME Pittsburgh, Oct. 7. Town’s No. 1 indie station, WWSW, has just closed a deal with the Irish Football Network to air all of the remaining Notre Dame games this season, and that brings up an unusual situation here this Saturday (11). That’s when Univer- sity of Pittsburgh plays the Irish at South Bend. Pitt’s clashes, both , at home and abroad are aired commercially over KDKA, which means that the meet- ing between the Panthers' and Notre Dame will be carried here by not just one but two stations. o-WWSW is again carrying play- by-play Sccounts of all of the Pitts- burgh Steelers pro games, with vet- eran sportscaster Joe Tucker call- ing them direct from the field of play. Tucker has just chalked up 17 years of service at the station. Boerst to Expand Spot Radio Report James M. Boerst, publisher of Executives Radio-TV Service, plans expansion of the Rorabaugh Report on Spot Radio Advertising which he bought last week from N. Charles Rorabaugh. Boerst, whose firm puts out a semi-annual time buyers directory and the AM-TV FACTuary, a quar- terly, has changed the name of the Rorabaugh AM report to Spot Ra- dio Report. Reason is that Rora- baugh will continue to publish his TV spot report separately. Since March, Boerst has been associate publisher of the Rora- baugh AM report. Because TV spot biz is expanding as new stations come on the air, Rorabaugh, de- cided to devote full efforts to the video bulletin. Info on' TV spot is collected from stations them- selves, while data on AM comes from the ad agencies. Boerst told Variety that he has added 11 agencies to the list re- porting and picked up 54 new sub- scribers in the past month. He said that., spot radio is in a healthy, growing state and that even in TV I areas it .is developing. BLOOMINGTON Serving o 2 BILLION $ MARKET 34% of the PEOPLE 34% of the FAMILIES accounting for 35% of the SALES in ALL INDIANA WTTV — affiliated with all nets — maintains its own micro wave relay system between Cincinnati and Bloomington to bring LIVE network shows to viewers. WTTV is owned and operated by Sarkes Tarzian ana Represented Nationally by ROBERT MEEKER ASSOCIATES, Inc. ivip\ C»'icocjo L O ^ A n o (. I ■*' s Son FfQ n ( 'o .Kovach SRO “Kovacs Unlimited,” one of several daytime strips on WCBS-TV, the CBS video web’s N. Y. flagship, will have 45 commercial spots aired weekly for the two weeks start- ing Monday (13). Jackpot makes the show SRO, giving it a maximum of nine spots daily for five days. Ernie Kovacs, star of the show, is currently trying to line up a system to squeeze a few more sponsors in, so that all he’ll have to do is open and close the proceedings each day. Candidate Pull Continued from (Page I a major campaign speech could easily determine the size of the audience. If Gov. Adlai Stevenson’s backers bought time on the full NBC video web, he might play to some 60 stations, whereas if Dwight Eisenhower’s forces utilized the ABC or DuMont TV webs, they could clear a much fewer number of markets. By the same token, the competi- tion confronted on radio or TV by the candidates would also have to be taken into account, and thus could confuse any attempt to meas- ure their popularity. If one of the two nominees bought time opposite a top-rated show such as “I Love Lucy,” for example, it would be expected that his ratings wouldn’t match. And if his opponent aired a speech opposite a lower-rated net- work program, he might get higher ratings but actually might not be as popular to the voters. Also to be taken into , account is the time preempted for a major speech. If either candidate were able to buy the time on CBS video usually ' occupied by “Lucy,” it would be expected that he would automatically pick up most of the 10,000,000 - odd viewers usually tuned into “Lucy,” which would give an unfair picture of his popu- larity. Any rating, consequently, would bear no relation to voters’ sentiments or to the context of his speech. Because of these factors, the ma- jor rating services are holding off until “the campaign swings into- "the- - week preceding the election, when public excitement is expected to be at a key pitch so that most of the confusing points will be ruled out. American Research Bureau, for one, expects to start rating the two candidates during the first week in November. * L. A. Hearings i - ■ ■ i ■ Continued from page Z *■ ■■ ■ -* inflicting “tpemendous suffering”' on himself and his family as a result of the “conspiracy between the committee and the producers association.” Jackson and Doyle in shouted retorts denied various: allegations by the witnesses. One of the latter charged there was no evidence of espionage and sabotage in the film industry, to which Jack- son snapped: “There is ample evi- dence that a great deal of funds for espionage and sabotage came out of . the motion picture industry.” AU> witnesses declined to answer on constitutional grounds and bar- raged the committee with criticism, most, of it based on previous Jack- son statements, including his ex- pressed hope of “no reprisals” to the wife of a friendly witness last week. Those testifying Monday, in addi- tion to Max and Perlin, included performers Dorothy Comingore, Lynn Witney, Annette Harper, Stanley Waxman, Herman Wald- man and David Ellis; writers Gene Stone, Harmon Alexander, William Wolff, Dr. Oner Barker, and At- torney Lion Turret. • Burrows Cited At Thursday’s session Paul Marion, a screen and radio writer, told of a Commy meeting at the home of Alvin Hammer attended by Ben Margolis, Karen Morley, Lloyd Gough and Marc Lawrence. Owen Vinson, writer and radio director, pointed the finger at 27 names, including Abe Burrows, although the latter had testified before the committee in 1951 that he had never been a member of the party and had expressed his hatred of Communism. Others named by Vinson were Louis and Jeanette Schofield, and Louis and Ida Turlcel, all of Chi- cago; Ken Pettus, Billy Wolff, Harmon Alexander, Gene Stone, Jack Robinson and Mary Robinson, writers; Stanley Waxman, David Ellis, Lynn Whitney, Annette Harper, Ed Max, Nina Klowden, Herman Waldman, Georgia Backus and Lee Barrie, performers; Irv- ing White and Margaret Gruen, screenwriters; Art Shapiro, pub- licist; Ben Polin, photographer; Mitchell Lindemann, director; Naomi Robeson, an executive, and Elaine Gonda, affiliated with a transcription firm. Margolis, meanwhile, announced that a conspiracy suit would be filed soon against eight major stu- dios, charging a blacklist of 15 people. They include Anne Revere, Gale Sondergaard, Michael Wilson, Howard Da Silva, Paul Perlin, Don Gordon, Herta Uerkvitz, Edward Huebsch, Paul Jarrico, Robert Lees, Alfred L. Levitt, Abraham Polonsky, Robert L. Richards, Louise Rousseau and Waldo Salt. 1 "—| Engineers Study Continued from page 3 * WHB’S FREE-FOR-ALL FOR TYRO DISK JOCKS Kansas City, Oct. 7 . WHB is opening its mikes to amateur disk jockeys in a promo tion program which will continue through the fall and winter j 0 i m Schilling, manager, has designated Saturday night as pop music night and Sunday for. longhair jocks. ’ •Applicants provide a list of -to rebords to be played, then tape their air stint in advance. This allows the 'guest jock to stay at home or invite in friends or neigh- bors to hear the show. Series has been kicked off with several prominent localities han- dling the shoWs, among them Loo Barry, presiderit of the Kansas C'itv Blues Fan Club, Frankie Truni- bauer, former trombonist with pop orchs, Sam Martin, dairy products magnate, on the pop* music ses- sions. Longhair series have been done by Richard Wangerin, business manager, and Hans Schweiger, conductor, of the Kansas City Phil- harmonic Orchestra. demonstrated at the 20th home- office screening room earlier in the year. Equipment has now been taken out and reassembled to the Fox- Movietone labs. Technicians are at work designing a scanner to per- mit transmission of color pix as well as “live” stuff. Demonstra- tions of any of the color TV sys- tems shown so far never included film pickups. Spokesman at 20th reveals that exhibs are showing lively interest in Eidophor but that the company is taking no orders pending de- termination of price. He added that, on a mass production basis, the Eidophor projector would be competitive with other theatre TV systems. Original plans to install Eidophor at the Roxy, N. Y., have been abandoned for the moment^ pending availability of additional units. Memphis’ WMCT Set For 1953 Spending Spree Memphis, Oct. 7. WMCT, Memphis’ only TV out- let, has mapped plans for a spend- ing spree of its television opera- tion next year. Henry Slavick.-who manages the TV and AM opera- tions, announced that $300,000 will be spent in WMCT’s expansion pro- gram early in 1953. The FCC has already granted the Memphis NBC outlet permission to add 300 feet to its tower, which will raise it to 1,050 feet. TV-LESS NEVADA GETS ■ ‘PIPED IN’ SERIES | show the public a union conven Teamsters Union TV’s Confab for Public Hollywood, Oct. 7. 1 In a novel pub-relations experi- ment. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, holding its an- nual convention here next week, is investing approximately $10,000 in video coverage of the event, to Reno, Oct. 7. Television made its first appear- ance inJSevada last week wben. the Riverside Hotel of Reno ma’de spe- cial arrangements for a closed cir- cuit telecast of the World^Series, viewed on 33 sets in the hotel, casino and theatre-restaurant. About 3,000 persons daily saw the Series in an extremely clear picture as beamed from the micro- wave station atop Mount Rose, about 35 miles away. The cost for Installing the operation was $8,500. Before the operation is completed, the bill is expected to reach be- tween $20,000 and $25,000. tion at work. Altogether 5*2 hours will be telecast over KTTV, three and one-half on Monday, and two on Oct. 17 when officers are elected! - '' On Monday’s program will be union prexy Dan Tobin, exec veepee Dave Beck, Governor War- ren and Edward Arnold. Because of the video influence, conclave moves to the Boulevard Theatre during the teeveed portion, so that cameras can better cover the event. Other sessions are planned at the Statler Hotel. Kine.will be made for various chapters of IBT in the U. S.. L’ville Beer Coin-For. Churchill Downs Meet Louisville*, 6ct. 7. WHAS-TV, with the Same crew which last spring originated’ the coast-to-coast televising of the Kentucky Ferby for CBS-TV, will cover the fall race meeting at Churchill Downs. In addition to the same four-camera, live-cover- age of the meeting’s four stage races, WHAS-TV film cameramen will cover the 18 feature races to be shown at 5:55 p.m. (CST) the same afternoon as the running. Falls City Brewing Co., Inc., Louisville, will bankroll the exten- sive coverage, which runs from Oct. 27 through Nov. 15. HARP0 MARX NBC-TV RCA-V1CTOR Mgt.: GUM MO MARX D. C. Female Blasters Elect Nancy Osgood Washington, Oct. 7. Nancy Osgood, director of femme activities and top woman* radio-TV personality for WRC and WNBW, NBC affiliates, was named presi- dent of the D.C. chapter of Ameri- can Women in Radid and Televi- sion /it group’s first meeting of the season. Other officers elected to head group for the year are: first v.p., Capt. 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