Variety (June 1957)

RADIO-TELE VISIOX TV-Radio Production Centers ; Continued from page 38 — NBC network program manager, back at desk after a hepatitis attack . . .“Uncle Win’s Farm” being delayed indefinitely on WBKB’s new summer lineup, the slot to be occupied by the “Bob and Kay Show,” switching from Saturdays to a 55-minute strip. Norm Ross' “7 to 11” has been dropped, and Richard Llewellyn is set for a new ladies participation and giveaway strip starting July 15 . . . Lon Nelles, erstwhile New York radio announcer and time salesman, added to WGN radio sales staff . . , Charles Johnson of the Weather Bureau subbing for Clint Youle ort WBNQ during week of July 8 while latter vacations . . . Joe Foss and Maury Magill spelling the vacationing John Harrington qp WBBM . . . Donald A. Getz now handling special serv¬ ice projects for WGN radio sales . . . Chubby Jackson rejoins “Laugh Time” on WBKB July 1 . . . WBBM-TV’s Lee Phillip judging Miss Indiana contest at the Indiana Fair on July 6 . . .Henry T. Sjogreij, assistant general manager of WMAQ and WNBQ, addressed national conclave of Pheta Sigma Phi last Friday (.21) on future of color tv. IN PHILADELPHIA . . . Joe Zimmerman upped to newly-created. post of director of station promotion for the Triangle Stations . . . WHYY-TV, Philly educational station, skedded to preem Sept. 16. Only sets adapted for UHF or those having a UHF converter attached will receive sessions ". . . Art Curley, WDEL, Wilmington, Del., deejay, joined WRCV as summer replacement . . . Max Solomon, WFIL-TV salesman, recuperating after operation . . . Half hour tribute to Jimmy Dorsey aired over WIP im¬ mediately upon news of musician’s death . . „ Organist Larry Ferrari returns to WFIL-TV after five month absence . . . Jack Valentine, former WCAU-TV cowboy star, to host at Pioneer Town, Wild West showplace on the Black Horse Pike, near Pleasantville, N. J. . . . Jack Pyle, WIP deejay, back after a week’s tour with the Phillies baseball team. IN SAN FRANCISCO . . . New sales manager of 50,000-watt KCBS is Richard H» Schutte. He replaces Roland Kay, who resigned. Schutte’s been a CBS-Radio sales¬ man in Frisco two-and-a-half years, worked in sales for KING and KXA, Seattle, before that and broke into radio as a salesman for KSFO, Frisco . . . Sportscaster Bob Fonts has become office manager for the insurance firm owned by Y. A, Tittle, quarterback for the* •football 49ers . . . Thomas W. Judge, national sales manager for Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., visited KPIX last week . . . KCBS staff announcer Clancy Cassell took over the • suspended Jim Grady (Louis Hartman) spot on "This Is San Francisco,” temporarily. Clancy used his own name . . . Bill McPhillips, KSFO news boss, subbed for Don Sherwood after the start of Sherwood’s second drunk driving trial last week . . Byd Chatton, the ex-KFRC radio vet, moved onto KCBS for the summer. IN BOSTON ... WBZ-TV goes on a laugh kick on its “Dimensions” program Sunday (30 1 at 9:30 a.m. with “A Survey of What Makes People Laugh” using comedy scenes from films, cartoons and live gags with Prof. Jack Woodruff of Tufts U. and Prof. Joe Golden of Elmira College . . . Joseph Shortall, WNAC, WNAC-TV comptroller, named assn. dir. p. r. Boston Branch Nat. Assn. Cost Accountants . . . Ed Sullivan in for WNAC-TV Pops party at Symphony Hall . . .WBZ-TV began shedding VARIETY Wednesday, June 26,' 1957 IN CLEVELAND . . outstanding feature films at 11:15 p.m. through completion on “Hoi- —■ ' ■ ■ ■■ - lywood’s Best” Monday through Saturday this frame after study showed « Cl 1 ” demand by viewers for late evening films . . . WNAC’s “Easy List- llOlli tlGGlNG enin’ ” music librarian Dorothy Kachadorian on vacash in Mexico City , . . WNAC-TV publicist Ruth Silvano back at her desk after ton? —— Continued from page 24 -a silitis bout ... WBZ launched its new “lateral programming,” night- r n Y1 and fipnrtrp r> I time radio concept of after dark listening, Monday (24), with emphasis ... ’* ’ . * g * [on "inside” story features and designated “Program PM.” John Bas- Alken vt *>. The city council j sett, former disk jock, becomes host and Gerald Spinn, new program of Schenectady, in urging reconsid- : director, is the producer . . . Response from the appearance of Tony eration of the plan, claimed that [ LaCamera, Boston American ty-radio critic, and Bill Buchanan, Daily 120f000 viewe rs in New York, Ver- i Record tv-radio critic on WGBH-TV's program “Critics Meet Disk . . ,, , ,, ’ . i Jockeys” has been big with heavy fan mail asking for repeat . . . *?° . Massachusetts would be j WEEI broadcasting “Beantown Matinee” from the Boston Arts Festi- ?i]£ lved of servlce WRGB went ! val in the Public Garden . . . WGBH-FM and WGBH-TV suffered power failure in the electric storm that hit the area Wednesday (19) One effect of the new plan would and lightning struck both radio and tv towers atop Great Blue Hill in be to kill off a recent proposal to Milton. provide a third VHF station for Providence, R. I. This proposal fjV f'T JPVWT JNTh was'based on shifting channel 8 f/Y L,Ltt V HiLt/llV U ... from New Haven, Conn., to Provi- John Slade, WJMO disker, recuperating at University Hospital . . . dence, giving New Haven channel Earl Donaldson, WDAE, is WGAR summer replacement . . . Carl 6, and eliminating channel 6 from George, WGAR general manager, attended Rotary Club meeting in New Bedford, Mass. This plan, of Canada ... WDOK’s Wayne Mack and Fred Wolff, with Cleveland course, was predicated on G-E Press, feted Cleveland Orchestra on its return from triumphant Euro- evacuating channel 6. pean tour . . . Dick Klaus, WERE general manager, cited by Red Cfoss ======= ^ = ^ ===== ^^ ====5 for station’s activities . . . .Paul Bedford, KYW, elected AFTRA presi¬ dent; Warren Guthrie, freelance, vice president; Tom Carson, WJW, P.’ „ treasurer; Jimmy Dudley, Frank Jay,*Phil McLean, Maggie Wulff, Ken Iflll J 1 draS Armstrong, Hal Morgan, Neil Flanagan dnd Tom Fletcher, elected to _ _ „ . , _ tlie executive board members . . . Lawson Deming named KYW pro- Continued worn page 23 ssa duction supervisor . . . Roger Carter added to WGAR announcing staff host-narrator and parttime dra- '. ... Bob Miller added to WERE news staff. matic performer, involves a ca¬ l'JV HIM A Tl A 4 sponsorship setup among Sealtest, I1Y UMAtlA ... Breck shampoo and Hill Bros> John Q. Quigley, former operations manager at KAKE-TV, Wichita, Coffee, named program manager for KETV here. New station is expected to go Under the three-way setup, spon- on the air around Sept. 1. Quigley was film manager at WOW-TV here when it opened eight years ago . . . KHAS-TV, Hastings, Neb.. '™ udd , , be now featuring weather reporting with aid of new electronic weather split in half, with Breck taking board, designed and built by the staff. Bob Buckley does the reporting one-half of each show nationally at 6 and 10 p.m. weekdays ... Pianist -Al Lamm named iflusic direc- sealtest and Hill Bros, sharing tor of.WOW and WOW-TV here . . . John Alexander, manager ^X)f the other half on a split-network KODY, North Platte, Neb., the past 13 years, resigned to accept a sim- regional basis, with Sealtest in the ilar post at WFLA, Tampa, Fla. east and Hill Bros, in the west. En- __tire deal is being packaged for the IN PITTSBURGH • • » sponsorsby the N. W. Ayer agency. Wait McCoy, chief engineer at WJAS for 32 years, has resigned to snecMs^n * s' 5 r^eemotive build WCNGln Canonsbnrg, Pa, which hopes to be on the air by the bSs <one annro^toa&fr end of August. . . Janet Ferrell, program director Cal Jones’ secre- “fi s weeks > stortta? hTJaS? tary at Ch. 2, plays organ every night from 7 to midnight at Ankara ‘„ d ee ra n^g thro^“ the follS Lounge * . . Frank TomaseUo, former WEDO announcer, has joined j anuarv Davs ant?times will varv the weekend announcing staff at WJAS . . / Jean Connolly subbed for ^thSch o/the shows ^ Pat Kiely on KDKA-TV daffy “Woman’s Angle” during latter’s vaca- wun eacn or ine snows._ tion . . . John Boyle and Frank Smokolen are new WCAE announcers ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■■ » ■■■■ — . . . Jim Westover, KQV deejay, signed to narrate the Pittsburgh C/NH C A I C Symphony’s children concerts again next season , Cal Mara, WJAS rwK bALt publicity gal, back from trip to Europe . . . Bill Delafield, student at rnk.urrr.rnT MIT, and Bill Carr, who studies at Carnegie Tech, are vacation re- NEA * Bridgeport, Connecticut placements on WCAE engineering staff. Radio Artist’s Home IN OMAHA Fairy Tales ; Continued from page 23 ; Under the three-way setup, spon¬ sorship on the shows would be PIKE • NEW HAMPSHIRE Presents the 8th annual WHITE MOUNTAINS’ FESTIVAL of the 7 ARTS July 5th to 18th O NCE MORE—jor the 8th summer — THE FESTIVAL .. * festive, entertaining days for the enjoyment of Tarleton’s Guests, their friends . , . and Tarleton’s neighbors. It’s the annual interchange of views and reviews from those who’ve made a success of art and a?i art of success. Prominent men and women of the 7 Arts — poets and playwrights, producers and painters, those of the theatre and radio and tele¬ vision, men of thought and men of letters—oil will be presented (at least one each day) at convenient hours, out-of-doors on the quadrangle or in the theatre of the Lake Tarleton Club. IN MINNEAPOLIS . . . KSTP-TV’s local “Treasure Chest” show snagged for guest appear¬ ances this week pianjst Carmen Cavallaro and film actress Inger Stevens who plays feminine lead opposite Bing Crosby in Man On Fire,” current Visitors here . . . Robert Sampson, formerly WSAI, Cin¬ cinnati, general manager and onetime KWK, St. Louis, sales man¬ ager, appointed general sales manager of Time’s WTCN Radio . . . Bill Daley, onetime U. of Minnesota All-American gridder, promoted from WTCN Radio sales manager to the same station’s tv post and Jack Cosgrove upped from radio salesman to radio local sales man¬ ager . . . Dave Brown, tv director-writer, in from New York to visit his - parents before taking over Jan Murray show ... No successor named yet for Stephen B. Lainski who resigned as radio WDGY vice pres¬ ident-general manager, to become an ABC network vice president in ! New York and who departs from here June 30 .,. Bob Shafer, WCCO- | TV news director, off for second visit to Russia. PROF. CHAUNCEY ALLEN Psychologist. Dartmouth College JOHN ROY CARLSON Author, ‘'Undercover"; Commentator GERALD CLARK Foreign Correspondent, Montreal Star TED COTT Exec. VicePres., DnMont TV HON. LANE DWINELL Governor of New Hampshire HY GARDNER N Y. Herald-Tribune Columnist; Editor VIRGINIA GRAHAM TV’s "Strike It Rich" & "Lucky Lady" ART HENLEY 3Joderator. WABC’s "Make Up Your Mind" Those of the 7 Arts ALLEN DR. HAROLD E. HYDE th College President. Plymouth College, N. H. I.SON JAMES G. MCDONALD Commentator Former U. S. Ambassador RK ARNOLD MOSS Montreal Star Actor, Director. Producer v . _ v GABE PRESSMAN Wont TV WRCA News Manager ALLEN M. WIDEM Drama Editor, Hartford (Conn.) Times EARL WILSON . N. Y. Post Columnist and Humorist More of the Arts BARBARA WALCZAK—EUGENE TANNER Soloists. New York City Ballet TIIEO BRANDON, Soprano, “Most Happy Fella*’ STEPHAN HERO, International Violin Virtuoso THE OPERA PLAYERS in “CARMEN" In English~-Direction. EVE QUELLER AL WOOD and The CALYPSONIANS PAUL DRAPER, Tap-Ballet by America's Master THE YANKEE TROUPERS in the NO-NAME THEATRE JACK GOI.BERT, Director HERBERT W. HILL. ConferenclerT • HAL GRAHAM, Musical Director YOUR HOSTS: THE FAMILY JACOBS Information: FL 7-7632 ■■ - | and Quaker State Oil Refining II Mutual moving; over to the new setup, tak- _ ing about 84 of the 115 five-minute —= Continued from page 25 ■— newsacts available for national available at $748 per five-minute period. ■ As to afternoon availabilities, ’ . : r . April through September, the pe- If underneath that gray i ™ d when Mutuai br^dcasts . fceafS 0 heart which It “Game of the Da/’ to its affiliates outside the major league territory, £ g I news periods and announcements d C j at 2:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. will be available only In the ■ MM A1% A ATT A non-baseball area. This area com- 1 M| I# If 111# V If prises roughly New England, Mid- I Iff I ItVI Ik A die Atlantic and Midwest States, and goes at $251.40 per five-min- . , . O reVUB foi vidt ute sponsorship and corresponding reduction for announcements/Out- BmimIs • n M side of baseball, the above time Bi«nu* vllV periods revert to full network cov- I E1AI|C IflDlflV erage and full rate card. fcCIIiw IVIIllVfl The contract terms for five-min- Td»m HdUlii ute news are 13-weeks non-can- 1 ■wtiii cellable, 28-days notice of cancel- 1VDC fiflilllllll iation; 20 second spot announce- ' MIRfc- VVIllilll ments and eight-second announce- - , ments, minimum two-week spon- Sketches pita Lyrics by sorship, all costs subject to the ROBERT ALAN BERNSTEIN re#ilar 15% agency commission, , . . with no frequency all volume dis- Adatl. Sketch Material by counts. _ MARGE GREENE Rates were described in a ...... “Triple Advantage Plan” brochure Directed by JOHI keyed to cite MBS’ advantages In Productbn Designed by its new programming and affiliate . , ,7 m ' m . contractual structure. Advantages Produced by ROBEI cited were flexibility, assurance of CUAWC IIIAUTIY Frr.n# r u _j pre-cleared stations, and network- 5MOW5 N,&MTLT tog ta fame with local program- Minimum Five Dollar* • As previously reported, net has BV)r RMArvaHAKt 1 about 30 news segments for na- ■ fe * e rV»WH*- tional sale, with Miles Labora- AIS-CONDITIONFR • HlAT P tones. Kraft Foods, American AIR-CONDITIONED • t /Home Products, Carter Products I _ FOR SALE NEAR BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT Radio Artist’s Home in a Glen by a Waterfall Custom-built by a well-Liown radio artist, this picturesque . Contemporary home, new in 1951, faces IJar Mill River where a 20' waterfall cascades to a forest pool. Of cedar clap¬ board, with 6 rooms, 2 baths, wide Thermopane, windows, teiTaces, electric kitchen. First . level is natural rock cave con¬ verted to 30' game room with fireplace. Garage. Over Vi acre, landscaped. Offered at $66,000. For free illus. leaflet V-44754 ask your broker or PREVIEWS'Inc. The Nationwide Marketing .. Service . If underneath ihat gray flannel suit beats a heart which laughs at television . • • IMPROPER CHANNELS ... a revue for videophobes starring Brenda Jim Edith LEWIS KIRKWOOD FELLOWS Tom Ronnlo John AYRE CUNRINGHAM HtAWOOD Sketches ahd Lyrics by ROBERT ALAN BERNSTEIN Addtl. Sketch Material by MARGE GREENE ' Music by WARREN B. MEYERS AddtL Musk by LINDA R. MELNICK Directed by JOHN HEAWOOD Production Designod by RICHARD G. MASON Produced by ROBERT ELLIS MILLER SHOWS NIGHTLY Except Sundays at 9:15 and 12 Midnitn Minimum Five Dollar* • NO COVER CHARGE. For Reservations: OXford 7-4370 AIR-CONDITIONED • ft|02 CdllO * 120 EAST 40th ST.