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RTES Plans Time Course THIRTEEN -WEEK course designed for new members of the time -buying and time -selling business will begin Oct. 26 at a luncheon ses- sion in New York at Toots Shor's restaurant and will be held at the same place every Tues- day thereafter. Seminar, sponsored by the Radio and Television Executives Society, will cover such subjects as audience research, agen- cy, network and sales practices and merchan- dising. Speakers are being selected from agen- cy, advertiser, network and station representa- tive fields. Fee for the course is $47.50. NETWORK PEOPLE Garrett E. Hollihan, account executive, KGO San Francisco, appointed sales manager, ABC Pacific Coast Radio Network, headquartered in that city. Jack Smight, director, NBC-TV One Man's Family, appointed producer -director. John Scott Trotter, music director, CBS Radio Bing Crosby Show, to NBC -TV George Gobel Show in similar capacity. Charles Standard, salesman, NBC-TV, Chicago, transfers to sales dept., N. Y. Ernest Sloman, columnist and acting city editor, Pasadena Independent, Pasadena, Calif., to CBS -TV, Hollywood, as publicist. S etu Chuck Thompson, disc m.c., WITH Baltimore, signed by DuMont Tv to do play -by -play on Pro -Football Game of the Week. up Mary Margaret McBride, formerly with ABC, to NBC Radio as conductor, five -minute com- mentary program (Mon.-Fri., 3 -3:05 p.m. EST). the norfolk market H. Malcolm Stuart, account executive, DuMont Tv, appointed to handle sale of all network political telecasts. with a one station buy George P. Herro, promotion and public relations director, midwest operations, MBS, appointed member, Council of Business Management Rep- resentatives to Citizens of Greater Chicago or- ganization. Now, more than ever, WTAR-TV vastly Jack Webb, star, NBC Radio and NBC -TV dominates America's 25th metropolitan Dragnet, appointed head, 1955 fund raising program ratings drive, Radio-Television- Recording- Advertising market by phenomenal Charities Inc., Hollywood, starting today and maximum VHF facilities. With its new (Mon.) . 1049 foot tower and 100,000 watts power Hal Gold, editor, press information desk, MBS, reappointed public relations director, Knights WTAR -TV is the only station that delivers of Pythias for state of New Jersey. your sales message to all of Tidewater, the Judith Waller, education and public affairs di- half of Virginia (including rector, NBC, Chicago, will address annual pub- entire eastern licity clinic, Theta Sigma Phi, journalism Richmond) and northeastern North Carolina. sorority, Evanston, Ill., Oct. 6. Barry Wood, executive producer in charge of color tv, NBC, will speak on "Color Tv: Today and Tomorrow" before Radio and Television Club of Pittsburgh Oct. 13. Howard Coleman, assistant manager, central div., NBC, Chicago, will address Phi Sigma Phi, .6se& %ílan%ut Northwestern U. commerce fraternity, on "Public Relations in Broadcasting" Oct. 8. Eddie Herbert, news writer, CBS -TV, Washing- channel 3 ton, and Carol Jeanne Summers, were married NORFOLK Oct. 2. l11AR2TU Represented By Edward Petry 8 Co., Inc. Eve Arden, star, CBS Radio and CBS -TV Our Miss Brooks, and husband Brooks West, radio - tv actor, parents of boy, Douglas, Sept. 17. BROADCASTING TELECASTING October 4, 1954 Page 79' .