Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1956)

Record Details:

Title:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Date:
Oct-Dec 1956
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Broadcasting Publications Inc.
Volume:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Leaf #:
000702
Language:
English
Subjects:
radio and television periodical, Broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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CELLER SUBCOMMITTEE BARES DETAILS OF 105 NBC-TV AFFILIATION CONTRACTS That total — half the 210 contracts submitted by the network before the House Antitrust Subcommittee's New York hearings — had been classified by the staff last Thursday. CBS-TV contracts also have been examined with ABC-TV's expected to be submitted soon. THE STAFF of the House Antitrust Subcommittee last week was half-way through classifying the 210 tv affiliation contracts submitted by NBC to the congressional group at hearings in New York last month [B»T, Oct. 1]. A check of the 105 contracts sorted as of Thursday showed 23 NBC-TV affiliates receive 3 3 1/5 % of the network station rate after they have waived the first 24 hours per month to the network. These stations are: KOA-TV Denver; WLWT (TV) Cincinnati; WSLS-TV Roanoke; WBZ-TV Boston; KYW-TV Cleveland; WHO-TV Des Moines; WLWC (TV) Columbus, Ohio; WTMJ-TV Milwaukee; WABT (TV) Birmingham; WOC-TV Davenport, Iowa; KPTV (TV) Portland, Ore.; KVOO-TV Tulsa; WSYR-TV Syracuse; WDAF-TV Kansas City; WHAM-TV Rochester; WRGB (TV) Schenectady; KCENTV Temple, Tex.; WLBT (TV) Jackson, Miss.; WSFA-TV Montgomery, Ala.; WICU (TV) Erie, Pa.; KMJ-TV Fresno, Calif.; KROC-TV Rochester, Minn.; WSJS-TV Winston-Salem, N. C. Another group of 13 had contracts based on 24 hours free time to networks monthly and compensation of 30% of the network station rate. These were: ' WXEX-TV Petersburg, Va.; KVIP (TV) Redding, Calif.; KALB-TV Alexandria, La.; KWWL-TV Waterloo, Iowa; WKNB-TV New Britain, Conn.; KCRA-TV Sacramento, Calif.; WJBF (TV) Augusta, Ga.; WEAUTV Eau Claire, Wis.; KVAL-TV Eugene, Ore.; WJHP-TV Jacksonville, Fla.; KARKTV Little Rock, Ark.; WFLA-TV Tampa, Fla.; KHAS-TV Hastings, Neb. Other stations, which gave varying numbers of hours of free time and received varying percentages of the network station rate, included these: WITN (TV) Washington, N. C, 40 hours, 30%; KVOA-TV Tucson, 40.3 hours, 33!/3%; WUSN-TV Charleston, S. C, 30 hours, 30%; KOAM-TV Pittsburg, Kan., 36 hours, 30%; WDSM-TV Superior, Wis., 35 hours, 30%; KTSM-TV El Paso, Tex., 50 hours, 331/3%; WSPD-TV Toledo, 36 hours, 30%; WMTV (TV) Madison, Wis., 24 hours, 25%; WALA-TV Mobile, Ala., 30 hours, 30%; KCBD-TV Lubbock, Tex., 35 hours, 25%; WFAA-TV Dallas and WBAP-TV Fort Worth, 12 hours each, 331/3% each; WMBV-TV Marinette, Wis., 46 hours, 30%; WTVO (TV) Rockford, 111., 27 hours, 331/2%. A second group of stations gave no free hours to the network and, accordingly, in most cases, received a lower percentage of compensation than stations waiving hours to NBC-TV. In some cases the network paid AT&T charges for interconnection and in others reimbursed stations for line charges in whole or in part, usually based on a minimum number of network hours used. But in other instances stations agreed to arrange themselves, by private relays and off air pickups, to pick up NBC-TV programs from nearby terminal points or stations. There were 22 stations which received 25% of the network station rate, waiving no hours. These were: WFBG-TV Altoona, Pa.; KLTV (TV) Tyler, Tex.; WLBC-TV Muncie, Ind.; WDBO-TV Orlando, Fla.; KTVO (TV) Ottumwa, Iowa; KFVS-TV Cape Girardeau, Mo.; WTBW (TV) Florence, S. C; WLWD (TV) Dayton, Ohio; WWLP (TV) Springfield, Mass.; WALB-TV Albany, Ga.; KLRJTV Henderson, Nev.; WLEX-TV Lexington, Ky.; KBES-TV Medford, Ore.; WFBMTV Indianapolis; KIEM-TV Eureka, Calif.; WAPA-TV San Juan, P. R.; WKBT (TV) La Crosse, Wis.; WCIA (TV) Champaign. 111.; WMAZ-TV Macon, Ga.; KFBB-TV Great Falls, Mont.; WMFD-TV Wilmington, N. C; KERO-TV Bakersfield, Calif. The seven stations receiving 20%, with TV in Fresno --the big inland California market-means • Best local programs • Basic NBC-TV affiliate Paul H. Raymer Co. National Representative Page 74 • October 29, 1956 Broadcasting • Telecasting