The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 58

1 iz 12- THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL Sunday September 27 1953 Admiral TELEVISION Bob Montgomery Now WTSK-TV Slates Test Patterns Saturday Television Executive Station WTSK-TV going on the I Robert Montgomery screen escape by way of Lisbon actor' director and producer who! He entered active duty in the also has had a successful career US Navy in the summer of 1941 in the US Navy and after the Three and one-half years later war as a radio commentator is he was honorably discharged as now an NBC Television execu-: commander after having served tive He produces narrates and actions ranging from Guadal-frequently acts in his one-hour i canal to the D-Day invasion of dramatic show Montgom- Normandy Tropical fever mva- home in November 95 Sales mi Sfftke ADMIRAL TV Sets I gfl Priced from Only 16 Balance WORKMAN'S HARDWARE-SUPPLY 3612 Titeweil Pike Phene 4-3071 Owned nd Operated hy lided him 1944 Resuming' his film career name film personality to enter Montgomcry appeared in television on a full scale Were a saga of the Born at Beacon Mont- pt boats Since then his direct- gomery was the son of a well-1 jng an(j acting have provided to-do rubber company executive movie and television fans with He attended Pawling School for varied high quality entertainment air Thursday with test patterns tales as well as cartoons and and scheduled for programming short subjects for the youngsters vithin 10 days to two weeks All network shows on WTSK-tnereafter is the venture of Tele- TV will be carried by kinescope Msion Services of Knoxville Inc until the station is inter-connected Operating on Channel 26 the by early next year Pro-station radiates 21900 watts grams will include such stars as (visual) with an antenna height Arthur Godfrey Jack Benny 1580 feet above mean sea level Lucille Ball Edward Murrow 'VTSK-TV is affiliated with CBS Herb Shriner Garry Moore Bis-Telewsion and Du Mont Tclevi- hop Fulton Sheen George Burns sign netwoiks and will possibly and Gracie AHen and Art Link-carry some ABC Television shows letter IT The test pattern which shirim -ih05 ky 34Joot will hit the air waves this week ii built-in kitchen) js primarily for the benefit of i caora calns or studio1 tGievision servicemen According 0 projectors (0 station operators the pattern Timia aoma 35mm slide wu enable the service men to sports propcrlv install home television and weather reports kitchen received shows hillbilly musicals panel discussions and disc jockey pro- The pattern S'nng grams are being planned time when and vdeo UTILIZES ONLY BEST justments can be properly made WTSK-TV has also' utilized the 77 111 help service men determine best film facilities available to anenna nccessary for contract high calibre television en- best home receptlon in any Slven tertainment for Knoxville audi- enccs Film shows will include nf Television Services JOHN WORKMAN The Gopphort Cape hart's crowning achievement 24 inch Diomond-Brilliont Picture exclusive symphonic-tone In smart weather-proof mahogony or bisque Florotone finish cabinet Twin-Power chassis engineered for UHF reception Also avoiloble with Copehort Universal "All-Channel" Chassis i late features hillbilly and western Boys and at 14 was sent abroad to continue his studies He toured England France Switzerland and Germany Two years later his father died leaving the family penniless Montgomery and a younger brother got their first jobs wiping oil and dust from locomotives in the near-by machine shop of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Montgomery also spent a few years as a deckhand on )a tanker Then he became an actor in summer stock companies In 1929 he was asked by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to appear in This Is He accepted and 11 months later began his screen career In 1939 early in World War IT Montgomery went to France and volunteered as an ambulance driver When the Nazis moved into Paris in 1940 he was forced to shows mystery and Tuley oil man of Evansville Ind anventure Haro(i Thnms owner of wiSE-TV AT THE CONTROLS Joe Broyles engineer at WTSK-TV station checks over equipment on the control table to see that everything is in working All operation equipment is now on hand at the station and construction and installation proceeds on schedule toward an early October opening date MYERS (1 THE INCOMPARABLE KNOXVILLE'S FIRST AND OLDEST DEALER IN TV Come In And Let Us Show You How Our Experience and Know How Can Save You AT in Asheville and Horton Doughton of Greenville OPERATORS LISTED Engaged in operation of the station here are: Harold Roth-rock vice president and general manager: Guv Smith III commercial manager: William Eckstein film technician Joseph Brojles chief engineer and Jay Miller who will be assistant to the general manager and production manager Jerry Danziger is to be program director for the station Pete Fennellv video technician: Glynn Theg salesman Mrs Joseph Hogan continuity director and William Westfall staff photo-j grapher Rothrock who is nominal head! of the local operation is a native of Indiana and a graduate of Purdue University For 12 years he resided in Washington where he was engaged in the consulting engineering field for the Federal Communications Commission Later he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City NELSON AVELY Repeat Perfornianee CINCINNATI 1 The Rev Armacost retired Methodist minister recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of his admission into the ministry in an unusual way He delivered the sermon he preached as a candidate to the ministry in an unusual way He delivered the sermon he preached as a candidate to the ministry SPECK WALLACE saus-TELEVISION SERVICE DEPARTMENT PHONE 2424 RADIO RENTER Entitled Part But he delivered it in the chapel of the Methodist Home for the Aged Morristown Tenn 317 Church Phone 3-0409 PRESENTING THE NEW HIGH IN ELECTRONIC ACHIEVEMENT 7 dt TINSLEY'S IN SEAT Two top executives of station WTSK-TV stepped up for this picture to play the roles of cameramen Harold Rothrock (left) general manager and Guy Smith III commercial manager will leave the highly technical job of shooting local studio shows to others after the station opens in October 'HftimioA I British Know Ropes 1 LONDON (A5) A thriving trade in old rope has been going on between Britain and the US since 1870 Recently it has been stepped up to the point where it has earned nearly $250000 for dollar-short Britain in the last three A lead- years and busi- THE SPECTACULAR NEW and spent some time in designing 1 radar equipment I VjctllCCi Returning to Indiana in 1949 he served as vice president of Radio Bedford Inc and licensee of radio station of WBIW Bedford Ind until May 1952 At present he is vice president of Kee Broadca-ting and licensee of radio station WKEI Kewanee 111 OTHERS NAMED Guy Smith III vyas born in Johnson City He attended High onslaught school in Knoxville and later University ot Tennessee Further SYRACUSE ing electronics engineer Booster To Spirituality ness leader has described sion as a new and weapon in the fight of spiritual Speaking before the RHAPSODY (MAHOCANY FINISH) televi- time and outlined a powerful three-point program for effective against use of the new medium enslave- He said that first the pulpit should give way to the television Religious studio for religious telecasts education was attained at the Television Workshop sponsored by 1 second that the program should University of Omaha pon gradua- National Council of the be shorthand uncomplicated and tion he entered the import-export churches of Christ Dr third that the program should be business in New Orleans La and paker General Electric vice presi- short and uncomplicated and later became associated "ith dent and general manager of the third that the message shoudd be radio station ROL here as sales- Electronics Division counehed in easily-understood man and with KGN as com- sal(j gives religion language and presented in terms mereial manager a new pUpjt a clearer voice a Bill Eckstein is another native wider of Indiana He was graduated from He urged the assembled church-high school in Coomi 111 and men to expend the valuable received hiv college education at and expensive gift of television Kilgore College in Texas He of solving the individual listener's problems This Is The Emblem Of The TELEVISION SERVICE WITH 24-inch Picture 95 339 ONLY DEALERS ASSOCIATION "Your Emblem of Protection (BASE EXTRA) With Exclusive Picture Filter System by Polaroid (OPTIONAL IN MOST MODELS) served in the Merchant Marines He built experimental equipment from 1943-1946 then became as- During World War II he served sociated with Tuley and Carter in the electrical department of Oil Producers for two vears In Clinton Engineer Works Since 1950 he entered the US Army and 1945 he has been engaged in spent two vears in the service radio and television activities in one in Korea with the 82nd FA Knoxville He supervised the Battalion a unit of the famed First technical construction of radio Cavalry Division After leaving stations WKGN and WIVK and the service was graduated from served as chief engineer of WIVK Southeastern Television Institute before coming to WTSK in Nashville Jay Millr comes to WTSK by Brovles chief engineer was born way of 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