Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)

Record Details:

Title:
Weekly television digest
Date:
Jan-Dec 1960
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)
Leaf #:
00083
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television -- Periodicals, Television 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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WEEKLY Television JANUARY 25, 1960 © 1960 TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC. VOL. 16: No. 4 The authoritative service for executives engag^ed in all branches of the television arts & industries SUMMARY-INDEX OF WEEK'S NEWS FCC TV ALLOCATIONS OUTLOOK: UNCHANGED. FCC expected to describe drop-in proposal & philosophy; may earmark 6 to 8 markets for new vhfs (p. 1). INDUSTRY'S LEADERS GIRD FOR HEARING FINALE; crucial testimony due from Goldenson, Stanton, Samoff, others (p. 3). MORE ANTI-PAYOLA ACTION FROM FCC in proposal to make stations take "affirmative steps" to curb practice. Renewals being weighed in light of replies to questionnaire (p. 7). Congress ALL-INDUSTRY TV SHOWDOWN set by Magnuson, who calls Feb. 19 summit conference of networks, NAB, Code Board, AAAA, FCC, ANA, FTC on reform moves (p. 2). Networks NETWORKS' RESPONSE TO DOERFER: Public-affairs programming plan promises 60-min. weekly in option time from each (pp. 2 & 4). Sfgfions INSATIABLE DEMAND FOR AM & FM STATIONS reflected in our j[ forthcoming Radio Station Directory (p. 3). I ARB CHECKING COVERAGE with Univac computer, finds instances j of viewing in counties beyond those previously considered within "normal" coverage areas (p. 12). Finance ' SEC VS. SKIATRON: Second week of SEC stock-registration hearings produces mass of detail on loans obtained by Matty Fox (p. 20). Manuiacturing Distribution JAPANESE TV IN VIEW: Nippon is set to cut a wedge of U.S. TV pie as Sony readies 8-in. portable TV for April export and other Japanese makers push battery-operated models (pp. 15 & 16). GENERAL DYNAMICS HEADS Defense Dept.'s list of fiscal 1959's top 100 prime contractors; 26 electronics firms on list (p. 18). 113 GENERALS & ADMIRALS employed by 20 top electronics defense firms. House subcommittee reports in urging 2-year ban on sales to govt, by retired officers (p. 18). MAGNAVOX GOES INTERNATIONAL, signing agreement with biggest British retail chain for sale of its products, and buying control of CoUaro (p. 19). Advertising ADMEN ANSWER FTC's citation of TV commercials; Fairfax Cone asks newspapermen to separate "facts from allegations" (p. 7). Film tf Tape SAG STRIKE VS. MOVIES nears; for TV, writers' strike not yet hurtful, and actors' new contract is yet to be negotiated (p. 8). AuxiliarY Services PURCHASE OF 10 CATV systems plus equipment maker, microwave system and radio station for $2 million planned by TelePrompTer, buying Antennavision properties (p. 11). Ollier Departments FOREIGN (p. 11). CONGRESS (p. 12). PROGRAMMING (p. 13). PERSONALS (p. 14). TV ALLOCATIONS OUTLOOK — UNCHANGED: Everyone is wondering whether anything new can possibly develop from Senate Commerce subcommittee's Feb. 2 hearing on TV allocations, called by Chmn. Pastore (D-R.I.) last week. FCC members are only witnesses scheduled to date, and, as far as we can tell, they will describe their proposed interim drop-in plan (Vol. 16:2 pi), give their views on it — little else. One possible novelty would be some sort of progress report on results of consultation with OCDM regarding possibility of shifting vhf spectrum from military to TV use. We can find no one at FCC with high hopes on that score, but they're all willing to be pleasantly surprised. "It is hoped," said Sen. Pastore hopefully, "that the committee will be able to determine once & for all what the policy is with reference to the utilization of the vhf & uhf TV channels in the Commission's overall TV plan, so that the general public will know specifically what kind of service and the amount of service it will have available to it." Kenneth Cox, Seattle attorney who has handled several TV projects for committee, will be on hand again. We asked one of FCC's most-scarred veterans for his long-range view of allocations, and he came up with this: "I think it will be like FM. FM laid around here for 10-15 years, and now it's finally beginning to move. Uhf will probably work out the same way." He thought FCC would be able to hang on to the uhf spectrum during the fallow years.