Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)

Hi DECEMBER 5, I960 Television. Digest PUBLISHED BY TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC. WALTER H. ANNENBERG, Prasident PUBLICATION OFFICE Radnor, Pa., MUrray 8-3940, TWX: Radnor 1028 JAMES T. QUIRK, MERRILL PANITT, Editorio/ Oirecfor Butiness Manager HAROLD B. CLEMENKO, Managing Editor DAVID LACHENBRUCH, Auociafe Editor JAMES B. DELEHANTY, HAROLD RUSTEN, Associate Editor Asst, Business Mgr, PAUL STONE WASHINGTON BUREAU Wyatt Building Washington 5, D.C. Sterling 3-1755 ALBERT WARREN, Chief WILBUR H. BALDINGER WM. J. McMAHON Jr. AAARTIN CODEL Associate Publisher NEW YORK BUREAU 625 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y. Plaza 2-0195 CHARLES SINCLAIR, Chief WEST COAST BUREAU 6362 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood 28, Col. Hollywood 5-5210 DAVID KAUFMAN TELEVISION DIGEST. Published Mondays. Subscription S75 annually. For group rotes & other subscription services, write Business Office. TELEVISION FACTBOOK TV & AM-FM ADDENDA AM-FM DIRECTORY Published March & Sept. Published Saturdays Published in Jonuory Copyright 1960, by Triangle Publications, Inc. Personals: Nicholas C. Gilles promoted from NBC dir., business affairs, operations & engineering dept., to business affairs dir., NBC-TV . . . Edward R. Hitz retired as NBCTV vp & gen. sales exec., NBC-TV . . . Robert J. Galvin named manager of NBC-TV videotape, film & kinescope operations. Taft stations changes: Sam T, Johnston, ex-WTVN-TV Columbus gen. mgr., named gen. mgr., WKRC-TV Cincinnati, succeeding J. W. McGough, resigned; Robert C. Wiegand transfers from post of gen. mgr., WKYT Lexington, Ky., to succeed Johnston at WTVN-TV; Robert Schlinkert, gen. mgr., WBRC-TV Birmingham, named a Taft Bcstg. vp; Gene D’Angelo promoted from sales mgr. to station mgr., WTVN radio. Theodore C. Streibert, formerly USIA dir., appointed gen. mgr., WTCN-TV & WTCN Minneapolis, and vp. Time Inc. bcstg. div. . . . Jack H. Mann, ABC Radio Sales development & program coordination dir., named also to new post of national dir. of research, advertising & promotion . . . Clifford Evans, ex-NBC, named vp. Sports Network. J. Drayton Hastie, Reeves Bcstg. & Development Corp. vp, named pres, of the bcstg. div. (WUSN-TV Charleston, S.C.; KBAK-TV Bakersfield, Cal.; purchase of WHTN-TV Huntington, W. Va., pending FCC approval) . . . Sam Fleishman, ex-NTA & Screen Gems, named Gerald Productions Inc. vp-gen. mgr. . . . Frank A. Duffy named asst, to the pres, for operations, General Tire & Rubber Co., parent of RKO General; Charles F. Burke continues as asst, to the pres. . . . Paul E. Walton Jr. named operations mgr., WNDU-TV South Bend. James D. Russell, pres.-gen. mgr., KKTV Colorado Springs, elected pres., Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce . . . Thomas Velotta, ABC special projects vp, appointed member of NAB’s Freedom of Information Committee to replace John Daly, who resigned as ABC News vp . . . Don B. Curran, sales promotion dir., KTVI St. Louis, elected first vp, Bcstrs.’ Promotion Assn. Dr. John E. Ivey, pres, of Midwest Program of Airborne TV Instruction, heads 1.2-member advisory committee named by U.S. Education Comr. Lawrence C. Derthick to study effects of govt.-sponsored programs on higher education; Derthick resigns eff. Jan. 19 to join National Education Assn, staff . . . Ivan H. Loucks promoted to chief, land transportation division of FCC’s Special Radio Services Bureau. Broadcasters Foundation has been founded by the N.Y. Chapter of Broadcast Pioneers “to foster & promote the welfare of persons in need of assistance who have been employed or engaged in working in the field of radio broadcasting for 20 years or more, or in TV broadcasting for 10 years or more, and to assist them in illness, emergency or financial need.” The first fund-raising affair, a salute to radio WLW Cincinnati, is slated for Feb. 26, at the Latin Quarter in N.Y. Meetings this week: RTES time-buying-&-selling seminar (Dec. 6). Louis Hausman, TIO; C. Wrede Petersmeyer and Herman Land, Corinthian, will speak on trends in public-affairs programming. Hotel Lexington, N.Y. • Advertising Council annual Hollywood luncheon (7). General Dynamics Chmn. Frank Pace Jr. will speak, CBS Television City • Best. Pioneers, N.Y., chapter Christmas party (8), Hotel Lexington, N.Y. Myer (Mike) Feldman, radio veteran who has been Sen. John F. Kennedy’s legislative asst., has been assigned by the President-elect to work with newly-appointed Budget Dir. David E. Bell. Following the changeover in administrations, Feldman will join Kennedy’s personal White House staff as Deputy Special Counsel. Feldman, owner of 30% of WADK Newport, R.I., recently sold his KLAD Klamath Falls, Ore. for $175,000 to Ogden Knapp, ex-NBC. Updated edition of Radio & Television — A Selected Bibliography has been published by the U.S. Office of Education under the direction of broadcasting education specialist Gertrude G. Broderick. Designed as a source book for educators and the TV-radio industry, it replaces a bibliography prepared in 1956. Deadline for entries for National Safety Council’s Public Interest Awards to information media is Feb. 1. Entry blanks are available from the Council, 425 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 11. H. Leslie Atlass, ex-CBS vp who died Nov. 18, left an estate of $1.2 million, according to his will filed last week in Chicago Probate Court. From “Births” column in Nov. 30 Variety: “Mr. & Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Nov. 25, Washington, a son, John F. Kennedy Jr. Child is grandson of Joseph P. Kennedy, former pres, of Film Booking Office & RKO Theatres.” Obituary Victor Emanuel, 62, Avco Coi’p. chairman, died Nov. 26 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y., after a brief illness. In 1937, he headed the group which bought Avco (then Auratron Corp.). Avco’s Crosley Bcstg. Corp., a pioneer in both radio & TV, operates radio WLW Cincinnati and 6 TV stations. The firm discontinued its Crosley & Bendix home appliances divs. in 1956. Emanuel is survived by his wife, 2 sons, a brother and 3 grandchildren. Technology , Allocation of 100 me for “Mobots” — mobile robots — in the 13,000-35,000-mc band, sought by Hughes Aircraft (Vol. 16:26 pl9), was turned down by FCC on the grounds that the request is “premature.” However, the Commission said, the proposal “holds out possibilities for filling an important need,” and it invited applications on an experimental or developmental basis. Hughes wants radio control of robots which operate in places inaccessible or dangerous to humans. It now uses cable control.