Sponsor (Oct-Dec 1962)

Productions to shoot five hour-long and one half hour pilot lor ABC TV. Walter Schwimmer, the Chicago tv producer-syndicator, is still riding high on his "World Series of Golf" spectacular. His latest coup with the color opus: a foreign version currently being edited by Schwimmer. It's the original, cut down to a blackand-white hour, and it will be shipped oil to Ireland, Rhodesia, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Australia and Great Britain, where contracts have already been signed. Sales: Allied Artists Television's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" features io seven more stations . . . Twentieth Century-Fox Tv's "Adventures in Paradise" to nine more stations, upping total markets to 64 ... United Artists Tv's "The Story of . . ." to four Triangle stations: WFIL-TV, Philadelphia, W \BF-TV, Binghampton, WNHC1 V. New Haven, WFBG-TV, Johnstown-Altoona; and "Ripcord" renewals to Foodtown and Fact-O Bak (WAIT,1 V, Baton Rouge), Fil-A-Bil Service Stores and I [olmes Pontiat (K I BS1 V, Shreveport) , K I Vk. Phoenix, and KGUN, I ut son. and new sales to W I. SI. -TV, Roanoke, and \\ | \( I \ , Johns town-Altoona . . . Seven Arts volumes loin and five of 93 Wainci Bros, and 20th Century-Fox tea tures to WCBS-TV, New York, WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, and KMOX-TV, St. I.oids. New properties: David Susskind has signed to produce a new series of .'5!) episodes of "Open End" for distribution by NTA . . . Victor Borge Selden Associates (VBS) will package and produce six hour-long specials for syndication called the "Tv Six Pac." Sales are being handled In TV Marketeers in this country and by Fremantle International overseas . . . Screen Gems will produce a pilot based on commando activities during World War II, aimed for the 1963-64 season and titled "The Commandos." . . . Association Telefilms is offering a "World's Film Fair" package of 24 travel, space exploration, ami international relations films. Subjet I mallei is tied in lo exhibits thai mighi be found al a W oi Id's Fair. International entente: Youngsters in Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, (Thailand and Malaya will soon be watching Rompei Room in iheii own Ian guages undei an agreement sinned b\ Romper Room International. Inc. and Fremantle International. I he I <> \e.ii < onli at I li( enses I i < mantle to franchise the children's i\ kindergarten show foi li\e and lot al produc tion in these < ounti ies . . . ITC has entered into a production-distribution agreement with Pied I'ipei Ltd. and Allan Wargon Ltd. for a new series, "Mi. Piper," consisting of 39 hall-hour filmed entireh in color. |ust stalling production, the scries has been sold to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) and Associated Television Ltd. (ATV). Financial report: Screen Gems reported net income for the fisi.d \e.n ended 30 June of $3,466,293 Newsmakers in tv radio advertising o, «•»» Cal Cass, account executive with H-R Television, New York, for the past seven years, has been named manager of H-R's Atlanta office. He began in 1919 as salesman and then manager ol the Atlanta office of Burke, Kuipers & Mahone\ and later went to the radio-tv arm, RaTel. He was also with WINS, New York; Adam Young, Inc. Neal J. Edwards has been named managei ol WMAL-TV, Washington, I). C. He'll continue to supervise the station's sales activities. Edwards has been WMAL-TV sales managei since Decembei 1953. 1 Ie c ame to the station from WTTG. Washington, where he'd been a sales representative and sales managei loi si\ yea] s. George A. Graham, Jr., new vice president, NBC Enterprises division, has been with NBC since 195.'}. He started as tv account executive and was thereafter in charge of tv kid show sales, director of sales planning, vice President of NBC Radio and, n March 1960, was named vice •resident and general manager )1 the radio network. E. Robert Nashick has taken over as advertising and sales promotion managei foi KP1X. San Francisco. He has held the same posi at K.TLA, Los Angeles, lielore that he did similar work with Westinghouse's K.YW-TV, ( Cleveland; Bisc ayne I elet ision's WCKT-TV, Miami; Storer's WGBS-TV, Miami; WXEL-TV and W|W. Cleveland. PONSOR/I October 19G2 63