Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1958)

Record Details:

Title:
Television digest with electronic reports
Date:
Jan-Dec 1958
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1958)
Leaf #:
000285
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television broadcasting -- Periodicals, Television -- United States -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals.
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A weekly digest of brief reports tracking recent developments in the U.S. television marketplace. Published out of Washington, D.C. with much more focus on the retail of TV sets than the other D.C.-based trade paper, BROADCASTING. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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13 Reprieve ior BMI; Broadcaster controlled BMI fought back in force this week before Senate Commerce subcommittee against ASCAP-supported death-sentence bill by Sen. Smathers (D-Fla.) to prohibit TV & radio stations from engaging in music business (Vol. 14:8). Fair bet at week’s end : Death sentence itself will die in subcommittee. In 3 swift days of defense — and counter-attack on ASCAP’s once-entrenched music publishing & ' licensing position — BMI marshalled 25 witnesses headed by attorney Sydney M. Kaye, BMI chairI man, to refute charges by ASCAP members of ; SongAvriters Protective Assn, that BMI monopolizes broadcast music. They encountered few chalI lenges from communications subcommittee — and Smathers himself was conspicuously absent from : hearings. 1 Subcommittee Chairman Pastore (D-R. I.) interrupted Kaye’s testimony once to ask: “Why is BMI good and I in the public interest? Why doesn’t it injure the public interest?” But for most of 3-day hearings pro-BMI witnesses had floor to themselves. And other subcommittee \ members — Senators Monroney (D-Okla.), Thurmond 1 D-S. C.), Bricker (R-0.), Potter (R-Mich.)— either didn’t I show at all or displayed little interest when they did. When last of first squad of 25 BMI defenders — broad; casters, spokesmen for state TV & radio organizations, 1 songwriters, performers — had been heard, Pastore recessed j hearings until May 6. BMI then will bring up represen(i tatives of networks, music publishers, record manufacturers j{ to resume counter-offensive. Kaye summed up BMI’s case: ' “The testimony of the principal [ASCAP] proponents I of this bill makes it clear that they still thirst for the The 1958 Emmy Awards: Jack Benny (CBS) I and Dinah Shore (NBC) led Emmy winners in annual ' National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences ceremonies. Benny took trophy for best continuing male performance ' plus special Trustees Award for contribution to TV. Miss Shore was named best continuing female performer and her Dinah Shore Show was given Emmy for best musical, ' variety, audience participation or quiz series. Other awards for 1958 in 90-min. N. Y. & Hollywood show sponsored by Pontiac and Lilt Permanent on NBC-TV April 15: ' single program of the year — "The Comedian,” Playhouse 90 (CBS) Continuing dramatic series — Gunsmoke (CBS) Musical contribution — Leonard Bernstein, Omnibus (NBC) Continuing performances by leading actor & actress In dramatic ' or comedy series — Robert Young & Jane Wyatt, Father Knows Best (NBC) ' Actor In a single role — Peter Ustinov, "Life of Samuel Johnson,” Omnibus (NBC) Actress In single role — Polly Bergen, "Helen Morgan Story,” Playhouse 90 (CBS) ' New Series — Seven Lively Arts (CBS) News Commentary — Edward R. Murrow, See It Now (CBS) I Public service program — Omnibus (NBC) Comedy series — Phil Silvers Show (CBS) Supporting actress In series — Ann B. Davis, Bob Cummings Show (NBC) Supporting actor In series — Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar Show (ABC) Dramatic anthology series — Playhouse 90 (CBS) Direction (30-mln.) — Robert Stevens, "The Glass Eye,” Al/red Hitchcock Presents (CBS) I Direction (60-mln. or more) — Bob Banner, Dinah Shore Show I I (NBC) ' Teleplay writing (30-mln.)— Paul Mouash, "The Lonely Wizard,” Schlitz Playhouse (CBS) ’ Teleplay writing (60-mln. or more)— Rod Serllng, ‘‘The Comedian,” Playhouse 90 (CBS) Comedy writing— Hlken. Prledbcrg. Sharp. Ryan, Jacoby, Rosen, Zellnka, Russell & Webster, Phil Silvers Show (CBS) I .1 monopoly they once enjoyed, and that their sole purpose is to eliminate effective competition in the field of music licensing. They have not shown the slightest evidence of conspiracy between broadcasting licensees & BMI.” BMI’s chairman was reinforced by such witnesses as James L. Howe (radio WIRA, Ft. Pierce, Fla.), pres, of Fla. Assn, of Broadcasters. Speaking for TV & radio operators in Smathers’ home state, he denounced bill as measure which would “directly jeopardize the future of the small hometown radio stations.” Subcommittee had no questions. In 43-pp. point-by-point x'ebuttal of ASCAP-SPA charges against BMI last month, Kaye said “contentions are false in fact and untenable in theory.” He ridiculed complaints that “ovmership of BMI stock by a small minority of broadcasters [624 of 4000 stations] has caused discrimination against the music of ASCAP by the entire broadcasting industry” — that “even if such discrimination has not occurred in the 18 years since BMI has been in business, the stock ownership is likely to cause discrimination in the future.” Other BMI defenders included: Gov. Clement of Tenn.; Dean Harrison Kerr of Okla. U., ex-secy, of American Composers Alliance; Pres. Elden Harvard Shute Jr. of Me. Radio & TV Broadcasters Assn.; Pres. Leo Morris of Okla. Broadcasting Assn.; Pres. W. Randall Davidson of S.C. Radio & TV Broadcasters Assn.; E. R. Vadeboncoeur, ex-pres. of N.Y. State Assn, of Radio & TV Broadcasters; Pres. Grover C. Cobb of Kan. Assn, of Radio Broadcasters; Ben Strouse, ex-pres. of Md.-D.C. Radio & TV Broadcasters Assn. ; Pres. Milton Mitler of R.I. Broadcasters Assn.; John Frank Jarman, ex-pres. of N.C. Assn, of Broadcasters. Songwriters and/or performers defending BMI included Gene Autry, Eddie Arnold, Pee Wee King, Roy Acuff, Sammy Kaye, Ray Bloch. Unscheduled news coverage— Rlker’s Island airliner crash. World News Roundup (CBS) Art Direction — Rouben Ter-Arutunlan, “12th Night,” Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC) TV cinematography — Harold E. Wellman, "Homo the Magnificent,” Bell Telephone Science Series (NBC) Live camera work — Playhouse 90, (CBS) Engineering or technical achievement — Wide, Wide World (NBC) TV film editing — Mike Pozen, “How to Kill a Woman,” Gunsmoke (CBS) Fellowships in TV-radio field, providing for study up to one year at institutions of their choice, have been awarded by Fund for Adult Education to folio-wing: James W. Sanders, Ala. Polytechnic Institute; Colin D. Edwards, KPFA, Berkeley, Cal.; Sidney Roger, KROW & KPFA, Berkeley; Claud P. Mann Jr., KSBW-TV, Salinas, Cal.; Richard E. Mansfield, Jr., educational WTTW-TV, Chicago; Sam L. Becker, State U of Iowa; Mrs. Doris Karasov, volunteer community leader, St. Paul; Dennis A. McGuire, WOW-TV, Omaha; Ethelbert A. Hungerford, Metropolitan Educational TV Assn., N. Y. ; Elmer W. Lower, CBS; John S. Clayton, U of N. C. ; Mrs. Elisabeth M. Alford, WALD, Walterboro, S. C. ; Wayne M. Carle, Brigham Young U; Miss Dorothy E. Miniace, U of Wis. Add awards: Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fraternity, announced 1957 awards for “distinguished service” in TV to Jim Bennett, news director of KLZ-TV, Denver, and to WBZ-TV, Boston. In radio, winners were Jerry Resholt, news editor of WCCO, Minneapolis; Dave Muhlstein, news director of KLIF, Dallas; KNX, Los Angeles. American Women in Radio & TV holds annual convention in San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel, April 24-27.