Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)
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16
MAY 16, 1960
Television Digest
PUBLISHED BY TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC.
WALTER H. ANNENBERG, President
PUBLICATION OFFICE Radnor, Pa., MUrray 8-3940, TWX: Radnor 1028
JAMES T. QUIRK, MERRILL PANIU, Editorial Director
Businest Manager HAROLD B. CLEMENKO, Managing Editor DAVID LACHENBRUCH, Associate Editor JAMES B. DELEHANTY, HAROLD RUSTEN, Aiiociafe Edifor
Asst. Business Mgr. PAUL STONE
WASHINGTON BUREAU Wyatt Building Washington S, D.C.
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MARTIN CODEL Associate Publisher
TELEVISION DIGEST. Published Mondays. Subscription $75 onnually. For group rates & other subscription services, write Business Office.
TELEVISION FACTBOOK TV & AM-FM ADDENDA AM-FM DIRECTORY Published March & Sept. Published Saturdays Published in January
Copyright 1960, by Triangle Publications, Inc.
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Personals: Hubert Federspiel elected pres., Central
American TV Network; Miguel Brooks, HRTG-TV Honduras, named vp; Simon B. Siegel, AB-PT financial vp, named treas.; William Klein, AB-PT attorney, appointed secy., John H. Mitchell, ex-KGO-TV & KGO San Francisco elected gen. mgr. (Vol. 16:13 pl7).
Jack Singer named N.Y. coordinator, ABC International div. . . John Pival promoted from vp to pres., WXYZ Inc. (WXYZ-TV & WXYZ Detroit) . . . John F. Patt, pres, of WJRT Flint, Mich., and WJR Radio Detroit, named chmn.. Goodwill Stations; Worth Kramer promoted from exec, vp to succeed Patt as pres. . . . C. Alfred Larson named station mgr., WOW-TV Omaha . . . Robert E. Kintner, NBC pres., elected a Brand Names Foundation dir.; John B. Poor, RKO General vp, named treas.; Norman Cash, TvB pres., and Kevin B. Sweeney, RAB pres., continue as dirs.; Clay Buckhout, Time Inc. vp, elected vice chairman.
H. I. Bucher, ex-NTA, named ABC asst. gen. counsel; Theodore M. Douglas Jr., appointed Eastern sales mgr., ABC Radio; E. G. Bishoflf named Central div. sales mgr.
Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, head of Tufty News service, Washingrton, elected American Women in Radio & TV pres. . . . Neal L. Spelce Jr., KTBC-TV & KTBC Austin, Tex., associate news editor, receives an $8,000 CBS Foundation News & Public Affairs fellowship to Columbia U. for the 1960-61 school year.
John G. McCarthy, dir. of the U.S. Office of Economic Affairs headquartering in Paris, elected TV Program Export Assn. pres. . . . James H. Quello promoted from operations mgr. to gen. mgr., radio WJR Detroit . . . E. Roger Muir, exec, producer of children’s programs, NBC-TV, named to UNESCO committee dealing with TV & film.
Obituary
Herbert M. Bingham, 58, senior partner of Bingham, Collins, Porter & Kistler, Washington law firm, died of a heart attack May 11. He had suffered a mild attack in 1951. Born in N.Y., he spent much of his early life in Butte, Mont., attended U. of Pa. and Leland Stanford U. He came to Washington in 1933, formed the law firm in 1946. Surviving are his wife & 3 daughters.
Assn of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers elects: Robert M. Silliman, pres.; Edward F. Lorentz, vp; Jules Cohen, treas.; David L. Steel, secy. AFCC members, in their annual meeting May 9-10 at the Pompano Beach Club, Hamilton, Bermuda, discussed these major topics: FCC’s new TV propagation curves; use of computers in allocations, directional antenna calculations & population analysis; proposed modernization of FM rules & standards; tall tower rule-making; FCC’s proposed uhf study in N.Y.; AM processing problems; participation in international TV-radio committee work.
Frank J. Shakespeare Jr., WCBS-TV vp & gen. mgr., was named “Young Man of the Year” at the Young Men’s Board of Trade banquet May 11. Shakespeare, one of 4 men honored for pursuits in the field of transportation & communications, made the first on-air delivery of editorial comment by a N.Y. TV station last March.
Meetings next week: National Educational TV & Radio Center spring meeting of station mgrs. of affiliated ETV stations (May 22-24), LaSalle Hotel, Chicago . . . National Federation of Ad Agencies annual management conference (26-31), Northernaire Hotel, Three Lakes, Wis.
Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, Washington TV-radio law firm, has moved to the new National Grange Bldg., 1616 H St. N.W., Washington 6, D. C. (National 8-4400).
New consulting firm of Charles B. Persons & Associates has opened offices at 3702 East Lake St., Minneapolis 6 (Parkway 9-8941). Its services embrace TV, AM & FM.
Harold B. Day scholarship fund is being established at Colgate U. in the name of the late ABC-TV daytime-sales vp. Funds to found it are being donated by ABC employes.
Foreign
Sweden’s TV licenses have swelled to 765,000, making that country second only to Great Britain in number of TVs per 1,000 inhabitants in Europe. The Swedish Telecommunications Board also reports that since the introduction of TV there in Sept., 1956, $200 million has been spent for TV sets. The Swedish TV network embraces 33 transmitters & 1,440 miles of microwave links. Anticipated by year’s end are 12 additional stations.
Foreign radio sets totaled 165,667,000 at the end of 1959, according to a USIA survey which noted an 8% increase— ^by 12,000,000 sets — during the year. The biggest radio rise was reported in Communist Eastern Europe, where receivers increased by 3,300,000 to 26,520,000. The number of sets in Communist China went up 1,500,000 to 3,500,000. Radio down-trends were noted in the United Kingdom & Japan, however. USIA ascribed declining use of sets there to the rapid growth of TV.
Ad revenue of British commercial TV last year surpassed that of all other media for the first time, reports Associated Television Ltd. TV billings climbed to $163,430,400 in 1959, compared with $162,821,500 invested by advertisers in national newspapers, including London evening papers. In 1956, its first complete year of operation, commercial TV attracted $36,372,000 in ad revenues, compared with newspapers’ $117,370,000.
TV debuts in Formosa this week (20) in conjunction with the installation of Chiang Kai-shek for a third 6-year term as President of Nationalist China, reports AP. The ceremonies will be on 50 TVs for public viewing in Taipei.