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Died. (Albert) Wayne Coy, 53, sharp-nosed, sharp-witted onetime (1947-52) chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; of a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Radio-television consultant to TIME Inc. since 1952, Coy was president of the Albuquerque Broadcasting Co. (KOB-TV) until its sale last January, president of Twin-States Broadcasting, Inc. (WFBM-TV, Indianapolis, and WTCN-TV, Minneapolis) since then...
...battle between newspapers and TV raged last week in New Mexico, where the state's three biggest dailies and two biggest TV stations were trading tirades over the papers' longtime policy of charging broadcasters advertising space rates for running program listings. When Albuquerque radio and TV stations KOB and KGGM said they would no longer pay for the space, the papers-the Albuquerque Journal and evening Tribune, the Santa Fe New Mexican-dropped their listings. The TV stations countered by showering Albuquerque (pop. 175,500) with 165,000 free program logs, while the far-roving Denver Post snatched...
Moscow, Idaho, has the innocuous call letters of KRPL, but Glendale, Calif, strikes a Ukrainian note with station KIEV. Stations KORN and KOB are in South Dakota and New Mexico, but corn-fed Iowa gets into the act with Mason City's station KRIB, while Texas pays tribute to its cattle with station KINE...
...From the Graphic, Gauvreau was hired by Hearst's fabulous Albert J. Kobler, publisher of the Mirror then founded to beat Captain Patterson's Daily News. Kob ler was "a well-read, intelligent man" who talked like Sam Goldwyn. ("This tabloid business is not all rag, tag and cocktail.") After making millions for Hearst, he died with less than...