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POLITICAL BCSTG WROW-TV Albany WAAM Baltimore WBEN-TV Buffalo WJRT Flint WFMY-TV Greensboro WTPA Harrisburg WDAF-TV Kansas City WHAS-TV Louisville WTMJ-TV Milwaukee WMTW Mt. Washington \A/ D\/ A T"\/ W KVA" 1 V Richmond WSYR-TV Syracuse The only exclusive TV Harrington, Righter and Parsons, Inc. national NEW YORK, CHICAGO, SAN FRANCISCO, ATLANTA representative TYlhisiA muuqqinA (Rabbit {of the SCSOfO ^ramcribed J^ibrarif Scripts fame} (x)Mm Oil Oua ptumcU In tBlwadauddnq tk& KappiQAt oft 475 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK 17, N. Y. "THE BEST MUSIC IN AMERICA" Celebrating Our 25th Anniversary avowed his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination in a letter to the Illinois secretary of state. In response to the same charge by NBC a week before, Mr. Daly had explained that he filed notice of withdrawing as a candidate knowing the deadline for dropping out had passed. His purpose, he said, was to get publicity. Referring to his promised FCC appeal, Mr. Daly informed Mr. Velotta: "Though I have been offered the free services of some of the best lawyers in Chicago to help me in this matter, I have refused their assistance, and have decided to go before the FCC myself, on the grounds that the issue is one of such simple and basic elementary justice that the entrance of lawyers into the case would confuse and expand the matter out of all proportions to the common sense of which it is intrinsically and substantially composed." CBS Inc. has requested more information on Mr. Daly's candidacies in various state primaries before committing itself. Sen. Long Says Candidates Should Get Air Time Free SEN. RUSSELL B. LONG (D-La.) thinks radio and tv stations should be forced to give free equal time to both sides during an election. The Louisiana senator's idea was expressed for the first time on a filmed tv program scheduled to be shown on WDSU-TV New Orleans, La., yesterday (Sunday). Discussing various proposals in Congress to make more workable Sec. 315 of the Communications Act and more equitable the expenditures provisions of the election laws, Sen. Long suggested that these goals might be met by "making it mandatory that radio and tv stations be required to furnish free time so both sides can be heard. It would help clean up politics and make it less burdensome for the candidates." Sen. Long's remarks were made in WDSUTV's Dateline Washington, a filmed program produced for the New Orleans station by Ann Corrick, who acts as moderator on the weekly presentation. NBC Rents Chicago Hall NBC Central Div. has reserved the auditorium in Chicago's new Prudential Bldg. for the weeks immediately preceding and during the Democratic national convention (Aug. 6-20) and is negotiating for a "long-range" working agreement assuring use whenever NBC-TV programs originate in that city. NBC Chicago has lacked suitable audience-origination facilities since it relinquished the Studebaker Theatre last year. Vote Count Automation IN its first use of electronic computers for political coverage, NBC News announced last week it has made arrangements with the Teleregister Corp. to obtain a bank of instantaneous computing machines to obtain immediate vote totals during the national political conventions in August and during the November elections. NBC News said the Teleregister machines will be operated by skilled electronic calculator operators, who will punch in their latest reports on returns on the machine and produce new totals automatically. Page 66 • March 26, 1956 Broadcasting • Telecasting