appointed director of program administration, ing Dave Cochran, named news producer. David Everett and Charles Bocan, district East Coast, for ABC Entertainment. Robert M. managers, Sony Corp., Chicago, join JVC In- Dan Rosen, reporter, KKYX(AM) San Antonio, Silberling, program executive, ABC Enter- dustries, Maspeth, N.Y. in same posts -Mr. Tex., assumes same post at KIRK -TV Houston. tainment, , elected to newly created Everett in portions of Wisconsin, Michigan, position of director, current prime -time comedy Mike McCall, from wcce -TV Charlotte, N.C., Iowa, North and South Dakota and Nebraska programs. joins WGHP -TV High Point, N.C. as news pro- and Mr. Bocan in parts of Illinois, Indiana and ducer /editor. Clark Brinkley, from wNCT -Tv Wisconsin. Stephen Martin, salesman at JVC John Litvak, director of CBS's daytime series, Greenville, N.C., joins WGHP -TV as reporter. dealer, Color Leasing, West Caldwell, N.J., As the World 71srns, named director, daytime joins JVC as district manager covering New programs for network. Meg Merchant, from noncommercial KUON -TV Jersey, Pennsylvania and City. Terry M. Keegan, development VP, Para- Lincoln, Neb., joins noncommercial KRNU(FM) mount Television, New York, promoted to there as news director. Elven Harvey Jr., audio sales manager, Dyma Taos, elected VP. senior VP, creative affairs. Art Frankel, busi- Engineering, N.M., ness affairs VP, named senior VP, business affairs. Cable Robert W. Goodwin, assistant to Arthur Austin O. Furst, assistant to Time Inc. group Allied Fields Fellows, senior production VP, Paramount VP, J. Richard Munro, New York, joins Home Television, Los Angeles, named program de- Box Office there as VP for programing. Bruce Marshall L. Snyder, research manager, Ar- velopment director, Playboy Television Produc- P. Sawyer, HBO executive VP, assumes respon- bitron, Beltsville, Md., promoted to television tions there. sibility for business and affiliate development. product manager, replacing George A. Corey, Peter P HBO treasurer, takes on ad- has assigned oversee Joan S. Aceste, attorney, Patterson, Belknap Hanson, who been to conversion of as officer & Webb, New York, named program attorney, ditional responsibilities chief financial Arbitron's computer software and hardware contracts department, ABC Television, New and will head finance and control activities. programs to new system. York. Frank S. Leiter, VP /manager, Alert Cable TV, C. Bosworth Johnson, news director, WSAZ- Lee Ann Kennedy, executive secretary, pro- Fort Benning, Ga., appointed operations man- Tv Huntington, W.Va., will become associate gram and talent negotiations, NBC -TV, New ager of parent, Wometco Communications, professor of journalism at Marshall University York, named manager, contract administration, Miami. there at beginning of fall term in August. Past that department. president of Radio -Television News Directors Newly elected officers, Florida Cable Television Association, Mr. Johnson joined WSAZ-TV in Chloe Aaron, director of public media pro- Association: Vern L. Coolidge, South Florida 1952 as news /staff announcer. In 1960 he was gram, National Endowment for the Arts, Wash- Cable Television Corp., Bonita Springs, presi- named news director. Under his direction, ington, named to newly created position of dent; Leonard C. Gregory, Teleprompter of wsAZ -TV news department has won Associated senior VP for programing, Public Broadcasting Florida, St. Petersburg Beach, president elect; Press National Broadcast Enterprise Award. Service, there. She will be assisted by John James L. Cooper, Florida TV Cable, Montgomery, who continues as VP- program- Melbourne, and Robert A. Bevis, Com- Bill Livek, graduate, Southern Illinois Univer- ing, PBS. municable Inc., Cocoa Beach, VP's; Joe M. sity, Carbondale, joins Ron Curtis & Co., Petro, Cable, Winter Haven, Ken Fairchild, VP /director of news /program- Warner secretary, Chicago -based executive research firm, as man- and James K. Faircloth, Storer Cable TV ing, WMCA(AM) New York, has formed Fairchild of agement consultant. Florida Inc., Sarasota, treasurer. Consultants, production firm in television, radio and film: 7 Winslow Place, Larchmont NY. Deaths Nick Charles, sports director, WJZ -TV Equipment & Engineering Mike Roy, 63, radio cooking show host, died Baltimore, joins WRC -TV Washington in same David E. Acker, VP, June 26 at his home in Torrance, Calif. of ap- capacity. Martin Wyatt, assistant sports direc- Television Microtime, parent heart attack. His five- minute Mike tor /sports anchor, KING -TV Seattle, joins WRC-TV Bloomfield, Conn., Roy's Cooking Thing, is aired six times weekly as sports reporter /sports anchor. elected VP of parent firm, Andersen on CBS Radio network and for 10 years he was host of one -hour show on KNX(AM) Los Laboratories, manufac- Angeles. He was announcer for several 1940's Broadcast Journalism turer of timebase cor- radio programs, including Duffy's Tvern and rectors and VTR Wister Jackson, editor /general manager, The Abbott & Costello. He is survived by his wife, systems. Mecklenburg (N.C.) Gazette, joins WCCB(TV) Allison, one son and one daughter. Charlotte, N.C. as news director. C.S. Rossi, with Rex C.A. (Connie) Metro, 50, account executive, Larry Kane, anchorman, WPVI -TV Philadelphia, International Corp., KMGH -TV Denver, died after heart attack June joins WABC -TV New York in same position. 18 in his car in station's parking lot. He had Acker procurement service Zan Anderson, reporter /anchorman /pro- project consulting firm, been with station 22 years. Surviving are his ducer, wctv(TV) Charleston, S.C., appointed Houston, appointed Mexico representative for wife, Beverly, and two daughters. assignments editor, wiz -Tv Baltimore, succeed- CSI Electronics, Cinnaminson, N.J. Leo (Skipper) Downs, 75, former air per- sonality, WIS(AM) Columbia, S.C., died June 19 Please send SUBSCRIBER at his home in Jacksonville, Fla. He was host of SERVICE The Good Ship 71'easure Chest radio giveaway/ variety program for 25 years. Surviving are two 3 years $60 sons. 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