Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1963)

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gram sales for Triangle, reported last week. Both programs are five-minute, fivetimes-a-week vignettes. One spotlights Triangle sportscaster Les Keiter in interviews with well-known sports personalities and the other Triangle Washington correspondent Ann Blair conducting interviews and offering commentary on the Washington scene. In addition, a 15-minute version of each show will be syndicated on a once-aweek basis. This is the third program placed in syndication by Triangle in recent weeks, following the release of the 15-minute, weekly Motor Racing Review. Video Industries merges with Tele-Tape Consolidation of Tele-Tape Productions Inc. and Video Industries Corp. of America, both Chicago, through an exchange of stock was announced Tuesday (Oct. 1) by W. J. Marshall Jr., board chairman of Tele-Tape, the surviving corporate entity. Voting by stockholders is set for Oct. 25. Both firms have been in business about four years and both provide producers, advertisers and agencies with mobile video tape facilities for remote production assignments. Tele-Tape has operated chiefly in the East and Southeast while Video Industries has operated in the Midwest. Combined gear, valued at over SI million, includes three mobile units with six Ampex VTR's and a dozen Marconi 4Vi-inch cameras. WHN gets New York Mets Whn New York has signed a twoyear contract with the New York Mets baseball club for broadcast of home and away games. The broadcasts, to start with pre-season exhibitions next year, will be sponsored by Liebmann Breweries for Rheingold beer and Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co. The Mets are moving to whn from wabc. Whn has also signed the New York football Jets. Hartford pay-TV gets hockey The RKO General Phonevision Co. announced last week that the home games of the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins hockey teams and of the New York Knickerbockers and Boston Celtics basketball teams again will be telecast over the company's subscription TV station in Hartford this fall and winter. John H. Pinro. vice president of RKO General Phonevision, said the hockey schedule will start Oct. 8 and the basketball coverage on Oct. 17. The Hartford pay TV system now has 3,400 subscribers, according to Mr. Pinto. Superb quality. . . moderately priced . . . the preferred choice on five continents SPOTMASTER 500A TAPE CARTRIDGE SYSTEMS ...NOW FEATURING DELAYED PROGRAMMING 500A — complete record playback unit 505 A — playback unit The new SPOTMASTER 500A series of tape cartridge equipment is winning praise and acceptance throughout the world. These rugged, dependable machines provide snapin cartridge loading, and splitsecond, one-hand operation . . . combined with high quality, wide range reproduction and all the timetested, field-proven SPOTMASTER features. And now something more has been added — the optional SPOTMASTER 500 A-DL Delayed Programmer. Designed to provide a 6-second to 16minute delay in the broadcast of program material, the 500 A-DL makes possible "instant censoring". . . lets you delete objectionable program material from interviews and other live originations while the program is on the air. The 500 A-DL may also be used to meet many other delayed programming requirements. With the DL function switched off. the unit operates as a standard 500A recorder / playb ack. On five continents, more stations use more SPOTMASTERS than any other cartridge tape system. Write or phone for full information; learn about the SPOTMASTER lease 'purchase plans . . . mono and stereo models . . . rack-mount or compact models . . . complete line of equipment and accessories . . . 24-hour-a-day ruggedness and dependability . . . ironclad, full-year guarantee. BROADCAST ELECTRONICS, INC. 8800 Brookville Road, Silver Spring, Maryland Telephone: Area Code 301 • JUniper 8-4983 Sold nationally by: Visual electronics 356 W. 40th St., New York, N.Y. Canada: Northern Electric COMPANY LIMITED Branches from coast-to-coast in Canada BROADCASTING, October 7, 1963 85