Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1963)
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6-TELEVISION DIGEST
JULY 8, 1963
Television Digest
PUBLISHED BY TELEVISION DIGEST, INC.
HEADQUARTERS: 2025 Eye St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C.
Phone: 965-1985. TWX
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EDITORIAL
NEW YORK OFFICE
ALBERT WARREN,
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Editor & Publisher
New York 36, N. Y.
JONAH GITLITZ, Managing Editor,
Circle 6-2215 TWX: 212-640-6938
Television Digest
DAVID LACHENBRUCH,
Editorial Director
PAUL STONE,
CHARLES SINCLAIR,
Editorial Director,
Contributing Editor
Television Faetbook
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EDWARD M. KELLY,
Philadelphia 51, Pa.
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RUDOLPH SAPPER, Circulation Manager
HAROLD RUSTEN, Associate Editor
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Personals
Ernest Lee Jahncke, NBC standards & practices vp, takes over as Broadcast Pioneers pres. . . . Edward P. Lawless, ex-Readers Digest, appointed exec, vp, TvB of Canada.
Bernard S. Krause, CBS-TV business affairs dir., will also supervise new business affairs-sales, handling new consolidated contract negotiations; Richard N. Burns & Anthony G. O’Malley promoted to asst, dirs., business affairssales.
William Muldoon promoted to commitment admin., NBC-TV participating program sales . . . Leonard Allen. NBC News mgr., promoted to operations dir., Washington.
John F. Box Jr., WIL St. Louis exec, vp & gen. mgr., named chmn., NAB Radio Public Relations Committee . . . Eugene B. Dodson, WTVT Tampa vp & gen. mgr., elected Florida Assn, of Bestrs. pres.
Richard B. Hull. Ohio State U. telecommunications dir., elected chmn., Ohio ETV Network Commission . . . Arnold Rabin, ex-NBC producer-writer, appointed special projects admin., ETV WNDT N.Y.
Charles R. Kinney, PGW vp, transfers to Los Angeles as West Coast vp . . . Peter R. Allen, Blair Radio sales exec., N.Y., promoted to Detroit mgr.
Albert L. Harmon promoted to WTTG Washington chief engineer.
Walter B. McQuillan promoted by RAB to new post of sales administration mgr., coordinating all sales operations dealing with national accounts.
Merryle S. (Bud) Rukeyser Jr. promoted to NBC dir., press & publicity, succeeding Ellis O. Moore, resigned.
William B. Peavey promoted to eastern TV gales mgr., Adam Young; John M. Slocum succeeds him as West Coast operations mgr.; Earl W. Steil appointed Chicago radio mgr.
Ivce (;oodman, ex-Filmways exec, vp, appointed Sarra vp in charge of production . . . James C. (Greg) Jackson, ex-asst. to Idaho Gov. Robert Smylie, named news dir., KTVB Boise.
A1 Petgen promoted by ARB to newly-created client relations dir. for station groups & reps, continues as N.Y. station services mgr.; Roger Hoeck, account exec., succeeds Petgen as eastern regional mgr., station services.
Ellis Shook, WTTG Washington production mgr., named chapter pres., Academy of TV Arts & Sciences.
Law firm of Molnar & Gammon formed by Lorie M. Molnar & James A. Gammon, 300-305 Edmonds Bldg., Washington 5; phone: 783-6822.
Consulting engineers John H. Mulanej* & Assoc., div. of Multronics Inc., move to Multronics Bldg., Rockville, Md. ; phone: 427-4666.
Obituary
Arthur Simon, 59, vp & adv. mgr., Radio-TV Daily, died July 1 of heart attack in his office. With the publication since 1954, he was former N.Y. chapter pres, of Broadcast Pioneers, current pres, of BP affiliate Broadcasters Foundation Inc. He is survived by wife & daughter.
Fastest gun in the West & nakedest city in the East are causing anxiety problems among youth of Australia. In study of American imports for Australian Bestg. Board of Control, researcher David Martin said anxiety caused by unpredictable endings or close identification with a situation was greater problem than overt violence. He recommended, according to Reuters report, increase in variety & quality in children’s programming. “What is at issue are bad or good films, rather than bad or good scenes,” he said.
L'hf broadcasting in Mexico will be color only, govt, announced in awarding first uhf grant (XHTO-TV Mexico City) . Mexico has not yet established color standards, but engineer Guillermo (Jonzalez Camarena has been demonstrating his own 2-color system with low-cost color receivers nightly over his XHGC-TV Mexico City.
(^ana Bestg. has contracted with Marconi for manufacture & installation of TV & sound equipment valued at nearly $8.4 million: TV stations at Accra, Kumasi, Sekondi-Takoradi ; TV studio complex at Accra; radio station at Ejura; microwave link between Accra, Kumasi, Ejura.
NBC’s interest in Ch. 9 Buenos Aires — over 25% — has been sold to other stockholders; major owner is Dr. Ildefonso Recalde, an economist. Ch. 13 there is owned by CBS, Time-Life and Goar Mestre (ex-Cuban broadcaster).
RCA broadcast antenna engineering, lab & assembly facilities, formerly housed in 3 locations, will be consolidated at 40-acre Gibbsboro, N.J. test site, where new building will be erected.
Radio New York Worldwide (WRUL), international shortwave station, names Edward Petry & Co. rep.
Singapore’s new TV station is now in pilot programming, using Marconi equipment