Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Television digest with electronic reports
Date:
Jan-Dec 1959
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1959)
Leaf #:
00085
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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January 31, 1959 • Radnor, Pa. • MUrray 8-3940 • Vol. 15: No. 5 SUMMARY-INDEX OF THE WEEK'S NEWS NO PAY-TV TESTIMONY planned by CBS at Congress hearings, Stanton announces. Networks expected to urge NAB board to adopt similar change in tactics (p. 1). FCC RETREATS ON BOOSTER FRONT as Congressional revolt grows. Commission extends deadline lor ban on illegal stations, will "study" relaxations (pp. 1 & 5). TAPE SYNDICATION IS HERE NOW. Guild Films sells 3 taped shows to 25 stations. Many stations in 'miniature syndication.' CBS Films, NTA stepping in (pp. 2 & 6). FEDERAL AID TO ETV PLAN gets quick Senate consideration as sponsors push $51,000,000 Magnuson measure toward almost certain approval by Congress (pp. 3 & 6). FCC WOULD SHEAR NETWORKS of station rep business, if proposed rule-making is finalized. Commission vote unanimous at this stage (p. 3). NO LETUP, APPARENTLY, IN MAGAZINE barrage against TV, as Post shoots off another gun. Other critics of TV in the Fund for the Republic's spotlight (pp. 4 & 16). HOUSE ENDORSES PROBE OF FCC and other agencies, gives Commerce Committee $125,000 to continue oversight unit's work. Other Congressional developments (p. 5). NETWORK TV IS ONLY MEDIUM showing gain in Nov. 1958 over Nov. 1957 in Printer's Ink Nat. Adv. Index (p. 16). Manufacturing-Distribution-Finance "NEW LOOK" IN TV will appear in June lines as major set makers prepare to use new 23-in. rectangular Corning tube. Plans of manufacturers outlined (p. 12). PICTURE-ON-WALL TUBE now practical, using flat cold-cathode design, Tung-Sol believes. Tube engineers see coldcathode demonstrations, react cautiously (p. 13). CANADA MAY RETALIATE against extra-territorial application of U. S. anti-trust laws. Dominion Justice Minister Fulton cites objections to U. S. trade policy (p. 14). NSRC PANEL CHAIRMEN NAMED, duties of panels outlined, as EIA-sparked committee organizes to recommend compatible stereo standards to FCC (p. 14). CBS PLANS TO SIT OUT PAY-TV HEARINGS: CBS won’t testify at upcoming pay-TV hearings before House Commerce Committee — unless called. NBC is understood to have adopted similar line, and both networks will present this position to NAB board when it meets next week at Hollywood Beach Hotel, Hollywood, Fla. Confirming our exclusive Jan. 17 report on this change in network tactics (Vol. 15:3), CBS pres. Frank Stanton told affiliates board meeting in New York this week; "We continue to believe that the use of the public's channels for pay TV is against the public's interest. We believe that we have fully met every reasonable obligation for informing the people . . . "Certainly we have put before Congress and the American people our views and all the facts available to us. ... If our views are sought, we will, of course, respond. Further than this we don't propose to go — certainly at this time." Whether a virtual industry-wide boycott of any further pay-TV discussions will result depends largely on policy adopted by NAB board. THE GREAT BOOSTER REBELLION OF 1959: Power of political pressure to influence FCC — the subject of much pious indignation in Congress during last year's House investigation of TV licensing practices (Vol. 14:2 et seq.) — was never more convincingly demonstrated than by members of Congress themselves this week, operating openly. FCC was stopped cold in its determination to outlaw illegal TV booster stations by March 30. And it took only some gestures of defiance on Capitol Hill — not even back-stage maneuvering — to do it. Confronted with flock of bills introduced and speeches made (see p. 5) , FCC