Evening star., 1948-03-28
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Program notes WNBW ..
This station will televise the Bowie
racing meet starting on March 80
and continuing for the next eight
days. The cameras will be opened
at 3:15 pm. each day for the run
ming of the fifth and sixth races.
Ray Michael will handle the micro
phone assignment. WMAL-TV
Movies Of major league ball
clubs in training are now being seen
on this station each Monday and
Wednesday evenings at 7:30. 4.
One of Washington's outstanding
garden experts is now seen and
heard on television. Bill Young
mans Garden. Hints" is telecast,
6:30-7 o'clock each Thursday eve
ming. :. Your Foreign Policy" a
program produced by American Uni
versity in cooperation with the
State Department, will offer
round-table discussion of some of
our pressing international problems
each Friday evening at $3.50. {.
1.-THE Thursday Night Date" between
Jeanne Warner and Howard Dew
ron has been expanded into a half
hour program and is now being
seen and heard at 9:15 o'clock.
WINK The II pm. news on
this station will now feature COM
ment direct from foreign capitals.
BBC reporters in London and news
men from o-diffusion Francaise
in Paris will comment on the days
activity in their respective cities.
WEAM "Pik n Pay" is q
new quiz show, with prizes, of
course, heard each Sunday, 1-1:30
pm.
WTOP has undergone another
realignment of executives, and it
will probably be the last one for a
long, long time. Maurice Mitchell,
general manager of the CSB station,
has appointed Richard Linkroum
program director. Mr.. Linkroum
moves from the sales manager job
back to the program side, which
he left for the commercial depart
ment. In commenting on this ap-
pointment, Mr.. Mitchell said, We've
been looking for three months for
a program director and found one
of the best in the business in our
own station. Hence the appoint
ment."
The function of the program de-
partment will also be split with Mr..
Linkroum and his staff devoting
their time and energy to the crea-
tive side, with program operations
turned over to Clyde Hunt, who
also will retain his function of
chief engineer. Mr.. Hunt is a vet
eran Washington radio figure and
one of the ablest engineerig execu-
tives in the business.
Hazel Markell, acting program
director of public relations. She
will work directly with General
Manager Mitchell. Mrs. Markell
will also keep under her wing the
educational and public service &C
tivities of the station.
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Spot Announcements .. The
wonderful title cards, backgrounds
and sets seen on WMAL-TV are
designed and executed by Bill Will
lison, one Of the behind-the-scenes
men who mean so much to televi-
sion. -. The Washington Television
Circulation Committee, representing
the three TV stations in Washing
ton, officially reports that there are
now $500 receivers installed and
operating In the Washington area.
President Truman's two St.
Patrick's Day speeches were heard
by approximately 100000 adults,
according to, the audience survey
Hoopers. Both NBC and ABC
are claiming that they signed the
first television affiliate for their re-
spective networks. In the instance
of NBC the station signed was
KSTP-TV in st. Minneapolis;
for ABC it was WFIL-TV in Phila-
delphia. Morgan Beatty, NBC
Washington correspondent, won the
National Headliners' Club Award for
outstanding radio reporting in 1947.
The event was his coverage of the
Texas City disaster. Griffing
Bancroft, formerly Of Chicago Suns
Washington bureau. has joined the
news staff of WTOP. A new
Sol Panitz documentary script will
be produced on WINK next Thurs
day evening at $50. The story,
dealing with the Arab-Jewish situa-