The Times-Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • 27

-27 SCRANTON TIMES, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1953, News Director Radio 'Veteran' Sugerman s-Eynon Drugs Amazing Offer! Detailed Planning Required For Live Shows on WGBI-TV Therell be no trial and error method of presenting live and other local telecasts from WGBI-TV on UHF Channel 22. to; Tom Powell Soon to Be1 The station- ccordin Trade-0 tt AOOowamice For Your Old Television Receiver Regardless of Make, Model or Age! George A 'Familiar Face has adopted practicallythesame egensive pUnaiDg Tom Powells face soon will be for necessary for certain commer- .,11 known WGBI-TV U.tn-Sy1g'thl CaKunbU hu voice to the station's ingSystem for network radio audience. The local program the same basic plan can Mr. Powell, news director of the planned at a desk beginning utilized for considerable pe-italiocL literally started his news- design, selection of casting career while attending props planning i of the lightingi operation of the prop room and grade school in Dunmore. HejPlot.

camera angles and dis- the preparation of props offer UwS, this system, on th. nnusnUfrobl.nt. tor TV face, sounds complicated, CBS ex Every jtcm jj, the prop room pen nee has shown that Jit Cmust 5, inventoried, given a code tually is better and cheaper in etc. Charted instructions must be prepared whenever prop's are needed for a show, including an outline of the program and the long run than wasting time and skilled workmen in arriving at answers to production prob- New Arvim lems through repeated measure--the n(j the props are an? needed in the studio. The planning at the desk is WGBI-TV will design and manu- sure fire.

We dont have to guess. We know, explained Mr. a veteran of many years in the fields of play and radio directing. Datailad Floor Plan ail WDF sum! UJIHIF titaMndls facture many of its own prop; including some types of furniture. Everything is supposed to be light in weight to facilitate handling.

Even the drapes which will ap- Here are a few of the steps pear on WGBI-TV will be designed which will be followed by WGBI-jand produced by the station to TV in preparing for local live; avoid the possibility of legal corn-shows: plications if commercially de- First, the producer-director will signed draper-, wallpaper, etc. a scale diagram of the neces-: are set. From this a floor plan In fact. WGBI-TV was advised will be prepared, on which every by CBS to stay away from anv-. article of furniture, cameras, thing with a design in set specifi- mikes, etc.

will be placed. cations, unless that design is a Then the carpentry department, station original. WGBI-TV had to create one asj unit of its art division will NOT SO FEW TOM POWELL wrote and delivered news programs for the school loudspeaking system. A graduate of Dunmore High, School, the 26-year-old newscaster, ev" prps ar.e necesfary left the University of Scranton! Furniture, drapes, lamps, back- 4 Two ultra-high frequency television stations have been operat- ing experimentally in Bridgeport, in 1947 to join WGBI as a news drops, etc. will be collected in Eonn for nearly two full years writer.

He is the type of radio ProP by Radio Corporation of America. newsman who actually covers are in stoc- Otherwise it will be news, such as school board, coun-J necessary to dig them up else- cil meetings, etc. The light plot, which also figures in the program planning, will show exactly where each His career as a newscaster has supplied him with a sound background of knowledge of local CONVERT YOUR PRESENT VHF TO UHF NOW FOR THE BEST SERVICE AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES PHONE 7-2775 JOR ELEVISIOn state, national and international studio light ill be located and affairs. Mr. Powel also is North- the spread it is expected to eastern Pennsylvania correspond- cover of the acting area as spe-ent for CBS Radio News.

He has cified in the script. A vanety of interviewed many famous per-i lights will be used in making the sons and has handled on-the-spot plot. coverage of numerous major news! Still another phase will be events. plotting the camera area and de- Mr. Powell, a member of the termination of acceptance an-National Press Club, Radio-TVj gles.

The cameraman will have News Directors Association, Penn-J predetermined information as to sylvania-Delaware A i a when he should dolly in the Press Association and the Radio camera for a closeup and ex-News Club of Northeastern Penn- actly how far in he is to dolly. sylvania, is married to the for- Mr. Winterstein estimated that mer Mary Ann Krayer. They re- for a sustaining local live one side at 2007 Rigg St. Dunmore.

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