Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1963)

Record Details:

Title:
Weekly television digest
Date:
Jan-Dec 1963
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : Television Digest, Inc.
Volume:
Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1963)
Leaf #:
000203
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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NEW SERIES VOL. 3, No. 16 TELEVISION DIGEST-9 UHF STATIONS IN OPERATION Erie (1) Harrisburg (2) Johnstown (1) Lebanon (1) Philadelphia (*1) Pittsburgh (*1) Scranton-WilkesBarre (3) York (1) Anderson (1) Columbia (2) Knoxville (1) Richardson (*1) San Antonio (1) UHF CONSTRUCTION PERMITS PENNSYLVANIA Erie (1) Harrisburg (fl) Allentown (fl) Easton (fl) Philadelphia (1, fl) Pittsburgh (f2) Scranton (fl) York (fl) Jenkintown (1) Lock Haven (fl) Oil City (1) Reading (f2) Bethlehem (fl) RHODE ISLAND Providence (fl) SOUTH CAROLINA TENNESSEE TEXAS Austin (2) Corpus Christi (fl) UHF APPLICATIONS Providence (*1) Greenville (*1) Victoria (Jl) UHF STATIONS IN OPERATION Ogden (*1) Norfolk-Portsmouth (1, *1) Pasco-Richland (2) Tacoma (*2) Yakima (2, *1) Parkersburg (1) Milwaukee (1, *1) Madison (2, *1) UHF CONSTRUCTION PERMITS TEXAS (Cont’d) Houston (fl) Dallas-Ft. Worth (1) Midland (fl) Nacogdoches (fl) UTAH VIRGINIA Norfolk-Portsmouth (tl) Danville (fl) WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA Charleston (fl) WISCONSIN Milwaukee (fl) PUERTO RICO UHF APPLICATIONS Houston (1, tl) Dallas-Ft. Worth (1) Charlottesville (1) Ponce (1) San Juan (±1) ACTION FOR CONSUMER & DEALER PROTECTION GROWS: House Commerce Subcommittee hearings this week, April 23-25, on HR-3669 Quality Stabilization & similar bills (Vol. 3:15p7), focuses attention on intensifying action at state & national levels by opposing groups to protect consumers from retailers, retailers from discounters, discounters from fair-traders. Onetime drugstore operator Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn.) picked up tempo of his fight against price cutters by introducing bill to permit independent retailers to combine resources for joint ad campaigns. FTC, of course, already is on record with view that joint ads by independent retailers offering same products at same prices may be viewed as evidence of illegal price fixing. Sen. Humphrey contends that small merchants can't "compete against giant chains & discount houses if they are not permitted to pool their limited advertising resources." On other side of fence. National Assn, of Consumer Organizations, which will oppose price-maintenance legislation in April 25 appearance before House Subcommittee, told us last week of mushrooming interest in planned representative organization for all low-margin retailers. NACO exec. secy. Roger Courtland reported "15 to 20 new companies have indicated their support this week and we now expect some 40 to 50 major discount companies to attend our organization meeting April 29." Meeting will be at N.Y.'s Savoy Hilton Hotel, not Statler Hilton, as NACO originally announced. Among latest supporters are Almart, Big Scot, GES, Mason Discount Dept. Stores. They join such leaders as GEM, Zayre, National Bellas Hess, Maxom. Action at state level is epitomized by Gov. Brown's appeal to California Legislature this month to enact 25 different "consumer protection" bills. Among them: Establishment of an agency to "crack down hard on cheating" by TV & other service technicians; new requirements on product warranties & guarantees; tightening of statutes covering "false & misleading advertising." Gov. Brown summed up: "As a result of confusing selling practices, not all consumers are spending their income wisely . . . nor do they always get their money's worth." N.Y.'s State Legislature has just passed & sent to Gov. Rockefeller for signing a bill that condemns false advertising as a deceptive practice, squarely fixes responsibility on person who prepares it, and authorizes Attorney General to apply to courts to obtain civil penalties. We spoke with Charles W. Stickle, executive assistant to state's Attorney General, about rising consumer complaints pouring into N.Y. State Bureau of Consumer Frauds & Protection. Complaints involving TV