Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1958)

FILM CONTINUED 1 BUY 3 MARKETS Wes' Texas Television Network KDUB-TV, CBS, LUBBOCK, TEXAS 316,000 watts and highest tower in West Texas provides maximum coverage (20% greater than competing channel) of rich Plains cotton country. TV FAMILIES: 150,484 KPAR-TV, CBS, ABILENE-SWEETWATER New studios in downtown Abilene plus increased power (91,200 watts) plus Sweetwater studios provide grade A coverage and grade A results in both oil-rich, twin-cities. TV FAMILIES: 87,640. KEDY-TV, CBS, BIG SPRING, TEXAS Channel 4 is the only Television Station providing grade A service in this oil, cattle, cotton area. Huge oil refineries and Air Force Base add to income. TV FAMILIES: 65,970. TOTAL TV FAMILIES: 304,091 Delivers greater % of audience in all time segments than any other BIG Texas market! KDUB-TV LUBBOCK, TEXAS KPAR-TV ABILENE SWEETWATER KEDY-TV BIG SPRING, TEXAS PRESIDENT & GEN. MGR.i W. D. "DUB" ROGERS NAri. SALES MGR.! E. A. "BUZZ" HASSETT NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE THE BRANHAM COMPANY DRINKING to the east-west film exchange (I to r): Vastly Eugenev, international exchange department chief, U.S.S.R. radio committee; Edward J. Stern of Cincinnati, president of International Television Programs Inc., exclusive foreign distributor for Ziv Television Programs Inc.; George Ivanov, director of the Moscow Television Service, and Joseph Brandel, ITP European director. Russians to See Serials by Ziv Under New Exchange Negotiated Three Ziv Television Programs Inc. series — Sea Hunt, Favorite Story and Science Fiction Theatre — will be the first American tv programs to be telecast in Russia under the State Dept.'s new cultural exchange pact with the Soviet Union, it was announced last week by Edward J. Stern, president of International Television Programs Inc., distributor of Ziv shows outside of the U. S. and Canada. Mr. Stern returned to the U. S. last week from Moscow where he and Joseph M. Brandel, vice president in charge of European operations for ITP, concluded arrangements for the exchange of programming in meetings with Soviet officials. Mr. Stern said there is no money involved in the contract. Prints for 1 3 episodes of each of the three American series will be shipped to Russia on April 15 and will be dubbed in Russian for airing on that country's 37 stations. In turn, ITP will have the right to the first selection of Russian program material for distribution in Western countries. Mr. Stern indicated that Russian material that will be considered includes animated cartoons and films of ballet and puppets. Abbott Sues Costello in L.A. It once was the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. but there was nothing comic last Tuesday when it was Abbott vs. Costello in Los Angeles Superior Court, where William A. (Bud) Abbott filed a breach of contract suit against Lou Costello and TCA Inc. for at least $222,465. The complaint, entered by attorney Robert A. Elliott, alleges that in 1951 TCA and its president, Mr. Costello, contracted for Mr. Abbott to appear in a series of 52 Abbott and Costello tv films at a fee of approximately half of the net proceeds but not less than $7,500 a picture. Page 82 • March 17, 1958 But Mr. Abbott charges he received only $167,525 instead of the $390,000 minimum. Probably his share should have been closer to $ 1 million, he estimates in the belief that the series netted $2 million or more, but he alleges he has not been able to get an accounting. English Tv Distributor Buys World Rights to Movie Package Mundus Television Corp., English television distributor, announced last week the purchase of world negative rights to 30 motion pictures from Sunset Securities Corp., a subsidiary of the Bank of America. U. S. and Canadian rights to the package, sold by Sunset in 1953 to General Teleradio, expire October 1 and Mundus will take over these rights at that time, according to Vernon Burns, head of the English firm. Titles include: "Arch of Triumph," "Casbah,'" "Dark Mirror," "Countess of Monte Cristo," "Double Life," "Let's Live a Little," "Lost Moment," "Lulu Belle," "Magnificent Doll," "Body and Soul," "Caught," "Letter From an Unknown Woman," "Fabulous Dorseys," "Four Faces West," "The Scar," "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid," "One Touch of Venus," "Ruthless," "The Other Love," "Secret Beyond the Door," "The Senator Was Indiscreet," "Miracle of the Bells," "Macbeth," "No Minor Vices," "Northwest Stampede," "Ramrod," "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami," "Force of Evil," "Magic Town" and "So This Is New York." Western Hemisphere rights to the films, excluding Canada, have been acquired by National Telefilm Assoc., Mr. Burns said. Hollywood Tv Sales Cadre Named Hollywood Television Service Inc. has set up five sales areas to handle sales of its Constellation Group of post1948 feature films and serials. Named by President Earl Col BROADC ASTING