The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 55

Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, August 16, 1953. DtCATUR SUNDAY HtRALD AND REVIEW TV 9 by microwave, the other by film Live' Programs Continued from page 7 vision stations, at present, may car-; ry programs from several networks. WTVP has affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company TV network. This will be the basic net will end at .11 p.m. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights a movie will be shown on the "WTVP Theater" at 1 1 p.m.

3 Departments OoerateWTVP Sports shows, Church programs, News, Farm news. These programs will be produced in the station's 53 by 36-foot studio. Two possible and probable shows work but Columbia Broadcasting network programs But, until live network is avail CUD ta Air-Conditioned On Wl Comfort able in Decatur, the same programs "Sports Showcase" DuMont) "Fred Waring" (CBS) Begins at 80" (DuMont) "Fight of the Week" (DuMont) Cardinal-Bear Football (ABC) "Medallion Theater" (CBS) "Talent Patrol" (ABC) "Hopalong Cassidy" (NBC) "Dangerous Assignment" (NBC) WTVP has also contracted with United Press-Movietone News for overnight service on newsreels. Movietone has such a setup that local viewers will be seeing actual news-reels of a happening less than a day later. United Press will also furnish WTVP with the latest news via a teletype hookup.

Another teletype machine will bring in messages to the station on what its next news-reel will contain and, if there is not sound track with the news-reel, a script to be read by a local announcer while the newsreel is being shown. Thar is the setup for national news and entertainment. Local news and features naturally will play a predominant role in WTVP programming. Among the local features the station plans are the following: Women's programs, Weather news, Millikin University shows, School programs, in CLAIIK'S NEW "East Room' TV Salon tor telecasting later. Whether a station gets a certain program or not depends almost entirely on the advertiser.

For example, an advertiser would be reluctant to buy time on a Central Illinois station if his product is not known here and he had no desire to expand into this area. Some of the network programs already lined up- for WTVP telecasting include: "Red (CBS) "Burns and Allen" "Life is Worth Living" Bishop Fulton Sheen (DuMont) "Blind Date" (DuMont) Thomas Show" (ABC) System, DuMont, and eventually National Broadcasting Company TV programs will be shown. At the start of WTVP operations, kinescopes of all networks but NBC were on hand at VTVP. Even after a live connection with the networks becomes a fact, some kinescopes will be used because of the multi-network hookup. For instance, if two programs WTVP will show are scheduled nationally at the same time, one of them will come will be available a rew days after actual telecasting by.

means of kinescope, a film recording to the program. 7 Decatur TV viewers, though they may not realize it, are familiar with this type of telecasting because KSD-TV' in St. Louis has been and still does use kinescopes of many network programs; Unlike radio stations which be Chwne from rhllc. Zeniifc, Mttarals, sal Admiral that are contemplated by the new station are live audience shows and film coverage of local events. Emphasis, naturally, will be on local coverage and community activities because WTVP is primarily a Decatur and Macon County station.

At first WTVP will be on the air daily at 4 p.m. Sundays through Wednesdays the day's telecasting 148-250 North Park Phon. X-774 long to one network, if any, tele I ft TjvIlDjjJoP Under Cowgill Top man in the operations of Station WTVP is Harold G. Cow-gill, vice president and general manager. Next in line under Cowgill are the heads of the three main departments of a television station programming, engineering, and sales.

Paul K. Taff, a 1941 graduate ef Millikin University, is program director of WTVP. His job is to arrange for and schedule the station's programs. Taff holds a Master's Degree in tpeech and drama from Northwestern University. His experience in radio includes being program director of Chicago, for three years and assistant production manager of Station KFUO, St.

Louis, for three years prior to that. He also worked for Station WSOY, Decatur. He-came to WTVP from a position as district manager of Encyclopedia Britannica Films Company, Chicago. Working closely with the program director is the commercial manager, Downey Hewey. Hewey, a former Millikin student, was with Station WSOY for three and a half years as an announcer and advertising salesman and was later in radio advertising sales in Blooming-ton and Champaign.

In charge of getting the station the air and keeping it there is James C. Wulliman, chief engineer. He began his radio career with Station WDZ when it-was in Tus-eola. At Northwestern University, from which he holds a degree in electrical engineering, Wulliman built and operated Station WEAW in Evanston. For five years he was chief engineer for Stations WCNB and WCNB-FM in Connersville, Ind.

During World War II he constructed and operated an armed forces radio station in Linz, Austria. Other members of WTVP's staff include: John Crocker, account executive, Stephen French, account executive, B. Gennette, chief accountant, William Leonard, tor, 4 Charles H. Logan, producer-di-ector, John Buckstaff, assistant director, Bill Heyduck, property, J. Crowell, news, Max Bolen, weather, Tony Parker, sports, Dolores Ryan, women's programs, Mrs.

Elinor Owen, traffic, William Burley, projectionist, Leroy Scales, film director, Edward Pianka, engineer, Charles Marden, engineer, Leo J. Krenzel, engineer, Nile M. Hunt, engineer, Marion Bork, continuity, Maureen Sullivan, artist, Suzette Sullan, receptionist-typist, Mary Wagner, receptionist-typist. Kitty LeMar, private secretary, Helen Shellabarger, stenographer, Elton Stewart, chauffeur and porter, William Francisco, janitor. M338 in ONE DIAL WW.

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