Variety (April 1953)

w^nfuday, April 8, 195S Pft&mfr Television Chatter New York" Robert Kochenthal returned to. the WPIX sales staff after two Lars with Katz agency . . . David j Hopkins, Emerson's director of .ales and advertising, named chair- man of Radio-Television Manu- facturers and Distributors Division of the Cancer Crusade ... John W. Pacey, ABC director of public af- fairs, participated in a televised nanei discussion on coverage of court proceedings Monday (6) in Cleveland at the national conven- tion of Sigma Delta Chi journal- fraternity . . . Dennis Day to be honored April 11 by Manhattan College, his Alma Mater, with its alumni medal of honor . . .Frank Brill* account exec for United Tele- sio* Programs, won the television set donated by Benton & Bowles for the blood donation drive staged inct week by tenants of 444 Madi- son Ave. • Building collected 560 Stats of blood . .. Charles Condike named regional sales manager for the southwestern region of Du- Mont Labs’ receiver division ... 4, Your Pet Show" celebrates its fourth anni on WPIX this Satur- day . Ezra Stoller’s color photo- graphs of CBS’ "Television City” in Hollywood is a four-page pic- ture-story feature in April issue of Fortune. Jerome Thor, star of TV series "Foreign Intrigue," returns to the U. S. April 21 after an absence of almost a year . . . Don Appell joined George F. Foley Produc- tions as associate producer and di- rector of "Freedom Rings" . . . Silent-screen stars Dorothy Mac- kaill, Leatrice Joy and Nils As- ther in "Tfie Magic Lantern" on "Studio One" April 13 . . . Arlene Dahl, on way to Film Festival in Cannes, France, into "Philip Mor- ris Playhouse" (radio) tonight (Wed.) and "This Is Show Busi- ness" (TV) Saturday. She has just finished "Diamond Queen" film. ... Jeanette La Bianca, coloratura soprano, was guest on Lilli Palmer show last Sunday . . . Dan Klug- herz appointed Manager of Film Production for CBS-TV. Bud Collyer replaces Bobby Sherwood on ABC-TV’s "Quick as a Flash" . . . NBC scene designer William C. Molyneux lent models of his stage and TV sets to the High School of Performing Arts for an exhibition there April 13 to 24 . . , Old Gold has renewed "Chance of a Lifetime" on ABC-TV. NOW BREAKING ALL RECORDS WKRC-TV CINCINNATI Daily Mondays thru Fridays 3:30 to 4:00 P.M, Wir of the Wom#i| *s World f rn usiaiit Shni wtofiaT; 8 babb S hallmark i>uj! IRUIDMIN PROHCTKIItS. Inc. • 9100 $H»t • *oum#» (4*1 CALIF. Hollywood Kelley Kar Co. inked 52-week pact to bankroll "Moonlight Mov- ies" on KECA-TV . . . Charlesi Denny Jr., who has been here con- ducting video survey for Para- mount Television, is no longer with the company . . . KNXT’s Palladi- um Party switches from Sundays to Tuesdays . . . Dick Haynes teed off new .show, angeled by Welch’s Wines, on KLAC-TV . . . KNXT reshuffling programming, with Johnny Carson beginning new show; Harry Owens switching from Mondays to Thursdays; Johnny Mercer toplining musical panel format, and Bill Ballance panel show. As a result, Paul Coates’ "Table From Hollywood" exits, but he remains as member of ’Bachelor’s Haven" and with his morning show . . . Tex Ritter preemed "Western Cavalcade" on KLAC-TV, with Joe Landis produc- ing . . . KTLA manager Klaus Landsberg reshuffled^ personnel, with Joe Coffin rankling KLAC-TV to join station as director of sales development, Albert Band joining as staff director, * talent director Bob Mohr being upped to sales manager, former sales manager Harry Maynard promoted to new post of director of advertising, sales promotion and client rela- tions, and Bob Forbes, formerly in sales, takes charge of commer- cial continuity in production de- partment . . . Leonard Stern joined Alan Young’s scripting staff . . . "Files of Jeffrey Jones" begins April 13 on KTTV, with General Electric Supply Corp. picking up the tab . . . A1 Terrence Carpet Co. bankrolling "Owl Movies" on KLAC-TV . . . Jack Wratlier to San Diego to-close escrow for his recent purchase of KFMB-TV and AM, beginning operations with escrow payment of $600,000 cash on $3,000,000 purchase from John A. Kennedy Broadcasting Co. % Chicago Ed Sullivan emceed the TV Guide bowling tourney last week , . Sunkist will replace Mars Candy as bankroller on ABC’s "Super Circus" summer session... Kling Studios releasing beer blurbs in six new markets . . . Marilyn Dragowick joining the Ernie Simon WGN-TV staff . . . Mages Sporting Goods to sponsor the Monday 10 p.m. slots at WGN-TV. Feature pix and time billed through Malcom- Howard for the next 26 . . . Lee jSalberg designing WBBM-TV car card promotions for the Chicago Transit Authority . . . Dr. Frances Horwich of NBC’s moppet show, "Ding -Dong School," will be key- noter of an educational confab at Roosevelt College. WBKB’s "Courtesy Hour" will receive plaudits from the National Television Review Board as the first live teevee show to be in- cluded in the Board’s high school educational program . . . WBKB sportscaster Jack Drees off on a Florida hiatus with John Bryson filling in . .. Roy Lang being added to the W. E. Long ad agency as assistant radio-TV topper via a similar stint with Foote, Cpne & Belding . . . Raytheon Television and Radio Corp., subsidiary of Ray- theon Manufacturing Company, to be merged into the parent organiza- tion May 31 . . . ’Nelson brothers Furniture picking up the remaining for newscaster Fahey Flynn’* WBBM-TV evening slots, San Francisco Local TV Academy’s fourth an- nual "merit” awards went to Stand- ard Oil for the "Standard Hour” teevee experiment . . . Stanford Univ. for the short-run "People, Places and Politics" series, bank- rolled by Ford Foundation . . . Dr. Tom Groody for his "Science Laboratory" series ... Lee Giroux for triple accomplishments—per- formance on Cerebral Palsy tele- thon, production of the deceased "San Francisco At Night" series, the opening of his Winroux Pro- ductions agency . . . William A. Palmer for his "Palmerscope” kin- nie process . . . John Atterbury for set designs . . , KGO-TV for the Cerebral Palsy telethon ... KRON- TV for increasing its power . . . KPIX for public service-education- al pioneering . . . Walter Pidgeon, Screen Actors Guild president, here to confer on the new TV film code . . . Klaus Landsberg addressed local ad club . . . State Department axing two local "Voice of America" transmitters operated by General Electric and Associated Broadcasters . . . Latest Bay area TV set census estimated at 558,- 200 . . . Blue Wright quitting as KGO-TV program director to join WAKR-TV, Akron . . . New KGO- TV staff members: Wayne Ander- son and Ted Carlson, sales; Don Blum, sales promotion; Bill Follett, film director. 26-Station, Four-State Web Bought by Brewery, For Senators Ballcasts Washington, April 7. A baseball network of 26 radio stations in four states and the Dis- trict of Columbia, with WWDC in Washington as the key outlet, will carry the entire 154-game schedule this season of the Washington Senators. The games will be spon- sored by National Brewing Co. of Baltimore (National Bohemian beer). In addition, plans are under way to add a fifth state to the "Wash- ington Nats Baseball Network” as negotiations are in progress with four North Carolina stations. Play-by-play broadcasts of the games will be handled by sports- casters Arch McDonald, Bob Wolff and Bailey Goss. Stations which have joined the network are WFMD in Frederick, WARK in Hagerstown. WCUM in Cumberland, WKIK in Leonardo town, WASL in Annapolis, WCEM in Cambridge and WASA ip Harve De Grace—all In Md., WFVA in Fredericksburg, WTON in Staun- ton, WNNT in Warsaw, WSTK In Woodstock, WINC and WRFL In Winchester, WANT and WRVB-FM in Richmond, WREL in Lexington, WLVA in Lynchburg, WVEC in Hampton, WRIS in Roanoke, WEVA in Emporia and WCHV in Charolottesville — all in. Va.; WKYR in Keyser, WMMN in Fair- mont and WEPM in Martinsburg— all in W. Va.; and WHVR in Han- over and WARD in Johnstown, in Pa. Miller's WWVA Post Wheeling, April 7, With the recent promotion of William E. Rine as v.p. in charge of the Northern District of Storer Broadcasting Co., Paul J. Miller succeeds Rine -as managing direc- tor of WWVA, Storer’s 50,000-watt CBS radio affiliate here. Miller was formerly assistant managing director. - the new wrinkle in television is TEEVEE library programming .,. look for the new Wrinkle ! NARTB CONVENTION, April 27, 28, 29, 30, May 1 RADIO-TELEVISION 35 TV Spotlights 24 of 31 Sessions At Ohio U. Educl Confab April 16 Columbus, April .7. Educational broadcasters will find the program for Ohio State U.’s 23rd Institute for Education by Radio-Television heavily weight- ed in favor of television. This^ trend has been growing more evi- dent since five years ago, when a pre-convention session on the topic was squeezed in at the last minute. Thursday-through-Sunday sessions are scheduled in the Deshler-Wallick Hotel here April 16 to 19. Quick survey of the advanced program reveals that 24 of tlje 31 general session, work-study group and speciai-interest group topics deal with tele exclusively, or with radio and TV combined? Only five of the work-study groups, and five of the special-interest groups, de- vote their attention solely to radio. The Institute kicks off evening of April 16 with a general session discussing "The Telecasting of Legislative Hearings." Dr. I. Keith Tyler, Institute director who rare- ly takes part in the formal pro- gram, will moderate the forum. Three speakers have been invited: Sig Mickelson, TV news director for CBS-TV; Telford Taylor, coun- sel for the Joint Committee on Educational Television, and Morris Novik, radio-TV consultant. Graydon Ausmus, prez of the National Assn, of Educational Broadcasters, will moderate the Friday evening general session on "The Role of Educational Commu- nications in Society.” Sunday morning general session, on the hard facts of "Supporting Educa- tional Television,” will be presided over by John Crabbe, prez of Assn, for Education by Radio-Television, Speakers will Include Ted Leitzell, public relations director for Zenith Radio Corp.; George R. Craig, trustee 6f Pittsburgh’s Arbuckle- Jamison Foundation, and Edgar Dale, professor of Ohio State U.’s Buerau of Educational Research. Broadcasting by schools, univer- sities, national organizations and commercial stations will be con- sidered in several of the work- study and special Interest sessions. Other meetings will be concerned with techniques in educational TV, progress in . communications re- search, training personnel for radio and TV in schools and colleges, and radio writing and production.' Subject matter of programs will provide the chief topic in discus- sions on agricultural, religious, health, music and children’s pro- grams. Rep of organized listener- groups from all over the U. S. will share ideas in meetings on good programming. Last year, the Institute was the first meeting held after the an- nouncement that the FCC had al- located some 200 TV channels for educational purposes, and the gath- ering y/as in the nature of a sober celebration. FCC Chairman Paul Walker and Commissioner Frieda Hennock warned the educators then that these channels could Only be held for them for a year, and pleaded with them to grab off the allocations. The year 4s nearly gone, and only 14 educational TV grants have been on, and only slightly more than a score of ap- plications are on file. Institute’s advance program re- veals an awareness of this situa- tion in its listing of "I\ow to" top- ics for discussion, and in its sched- uling of the general session of the plaguing problem of paying costs of educational TV. Faye Emerson’s Month Of Road Originations Faye Emerson, on tour in "Eve- ning With Will Shakespeare," be- gan this week a more-than-a-month out-of-town origination of her WNBC, N. Y., program. Show, heard from 12:C5 to 12:45 cross the board, Simultaneously drops disk-playing from Miss Em- erson’s radio repertoire (it’s a headache to set up for a traveling N. Y. deejay) to concentrate on straight interviews, many with her Shakespeare cast members, who in- clude Eva LeGallienne, Margaret Webster, Viveca Lindfors, Basil Rathbone and John Lund. First stop this week for the troupe, and Miss Emerson’s N. Y. airer, is Boston, followed by single weeks at New Haven, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Balti- more and Washington, winding up the week of May 11. Eileen BARTON JDpenlng April 10 Fazio’s Supper Club Milwaukee CORAL RECORDS Dir.t MCA BLOOMINGTON Serving a 2 BILLION $ MARKET 34% of the PEOPLE 34 r c of the FAMILIES accounting for 35 % of the SALES m 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 Sarkis Tarzian and Represented Nationally by ROBERT MEEKER ASSOCIATES, Inc. N' w ■ C^kcicj : ■ Lcs A cci■ I- ■ Son Prcin ;,s „