Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Date:
Oct-Dec 1959
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Broadcasting Publications Inc.
Volume:
Broadcasting
Leaf #:
0001432
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:
August 28, 2022
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PROGRAMMING UNITED ARTISTS EYES ZIV TV But talks are only preliminary now WTPA-H arrisburg's Number One Station COVERS* Central Pennsylvania's HEARTLAND WTPA covers and delivers the Heart of Central Pennsylvania— a rich and stable economy based on commerce, industry and government. Maximum coverage at sensible rates makes WTPA your best buy ! * ARB Share of Audience Sun. thru Sat. 6-10 P.M. Nov. '58 — 31.0 Feb. '59 — 32.1 May '59 — 35.6 United Artists Corp. is taking another sniff at the sweet smell of somebody else's tv success. Object of interest is Ziv Television Programs Inc., one of tv's leading syndication companies with three shows on the networks this season and a lengthy list of series in syndication. The last time (1958) UA saw a good prospect, Associated Artists Productions, a non-Hollywood controlled tv company, was snapped up. AAP is now United Artists Associated. This acquisition gave UA access to the Warner Bros, pre1949 library, short subjects, cartoons, various feature packages and a merchandising operation. Now UA is thinking about acquiring Ziv. United Artists Corp. is a major motion picture releasing operation that emerged out of Hollywood's decay of the post-glamor era hastened by tv's rise. Its winning combination: access to funds to finance picture-making. UA's Look • UA itself does not produce movies. It puts up money for others to do so and has built-in arrangements to make it worth the while of name stars, directors and producers. UA also has a tv subsidiary. United Television Inc., that has two shows on the networks. The Dennis O'Keefe Show on CBS-TV and The Troubleshooters on NBC-TV, and Tales of the Vikings, its only tv series so far placed in syndication. UA-TV plans additional series for syndication. The corporation is preparing Miami Undercover and Hudson's Bay. These new shows will be offered to network advertisers. The parent UA also owns a record company. Top 40 programming is on its way out on one of the stations which pioneered it. Harold Krelstein, pres ident of the Plough Stations, said the format will be dropped soon by WMPS Memphis. He said Top 40 programming has become "so commonplace it has Mr. Krelstein outlived its usefulness." Mr. Krelstein said a new format, Ziv Television's control changed hands early in July. Two Wall Street investment firms, F. Eberstadt & Co. and Lazard Freres & Co., purchased about 80% of Ziv's stock in a deal reportedly involving $14 million. The other stock presumably is still owned by Frederick W. Ziv, board chairman, and John L. Sinn, president. The Contact • UA's contact with Ziv is a direct one. It is through the Eberstadt firm, which has a close association by having floated stock issues and served as an investment banker for United Artists. UA officials were cautious last week when questioned about a purchase of Ziv. For one thing, they asserted, no negotiations have begun, and discussions, they said, were "preliminary to see if there is any basis for some kind of deal." Principal conferees included UA's executive staff and Eberstadt officials. Ziv's on-the-network properties are Men Into Space (CBS-TV), Challenge (NBC-TV) and Bat Masterson (NBCTV) . Ziv currently has new product on Tombstone Territory coming up (this series also has been on ABC-TV) for syndication along with the Lockup and This Man Dawson series. It's in the third year production of Sea Hunt and has such well known syndicated properties as Bold Venture, Dial 999, Harbor Command, Highway Patrol, MacKenzie's Raiders, The New Adventures of Martin Kane, Target and Cisco Kid among others. Acquisition of Ziv would give UA its first studio facility (Ziv owns a now in the planning stage, if found successful after a trial run in Memphis will probably be used on Plough's other stations: WJJD Chicago, WCOP Boston, WCAO Baltimore and WPLO Atlanta. Mr. Krelstein refuses to talk about the new format. He fears he'll hear it first on another station if he divulges his plans at this early date. Plough first began programming the Top 40 in Memphis in 1955. The city currently has three stations (including WMPS) using the Top 40 format. WMPS to drop Top 40 62 BROADCASTING, December 21, 1959