Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1959)

studio in Hollywood). Ziv is a privately-owiied company. At the time the two banking houses bought controlling interests it was speculated that Ziv shares would be placed on the market for public offering, but this has not transpired. Aside from its "firstrun" syndicated and network properties, Ziv has valuable holdings in its reruns in syndication in the U.S. and in distribution in foreign markets. AFM may settle hassle out-of-court Attorneys for the American Federation of Musicians and for the dissident group of Hollywood musicians (chiefly members of AFM Local 47) who are suing AFM got together in Las Vegas last week to discuss an AFM offer for an out-of-court settlement (Broadcasting, Dec. 14). The suits were filed three years ago by the rebel musicians who make payments into music performance trust funds. They want these payments diverted to the individual musicians employed to do the work. Agreement for the Las Vegas meeting was followed by a postponement to Jan. 4 of a hearing which was to have begun Dec. 14 in Los Angeles Superior Court. One suit seeks to obtain for the individual musicians $6,172,163 paid into the trust funds for the release of theatrical motion pictures to television. Three other suits cover trust fund payments for musicians' services for phonograph records, tv films and transcriptions, jingles and spots. The four actions ask for aggregate payments of some $24 million. AFM has offered about $2,650,000 in settlement. Attending the Nevada negotiating session were Samuel R. Rosenbaum, trustee for the music performance funds; AFM attorneys Henry Kaiser, Michael Luddy and Emanuel Gordon; plaintiffs' attorneys Harold A. Fendler, Daniel A. Weber and Jules Bloch. Rocky meets newsmen in combined session When New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller announced his plans to hold "separate but equal press conferences" for radio-tv and newspaper newsmen, in Dallas, Dave Muhlstein, news director of KLIF, that city, threatened a radio-tv boycott. Filing a simultaneous protest to the governor's headquarters and over the Associated Press wire, Mr. Muhlstein, director of the Dallas Press Club, stated that Gov. Rockefeller's policy discriminated against broadcasters. Although other Dallas stations refused to join the threat BROADCASTING, December 21, 1959 KOMU-TV serves thej* w ft of Mid-Missouri The 500 000 consumers in the heart of Missouri constitute a rich "island" market that cannot be reached by TV from Kansas City, St. Louis or other bordering towns. Only a Mid-Missouri TV station can give you full coverage of this whole market. If your product is distributed in Mid-Missouri (and most national products are), give it the best possible TV support in this important 28-county area-including such cities as Jefferson City, Mexico, Moberly, Rolla and Sedalia-buy KOMU-TV, Columbia. FACTS ABOUT THE MID-MISSOURI "ISLAND" MARKET Famihes ' TV Households Retail Soles $529,691,000 Effective Buying Power .....$752,144,000 NBC & ABC AFFILIATION REPRESENTED BY H-R IU-TV ' CHANNEL 8 Columbia, Missouri R. C. CRISLER & CO., inc. Business Brokers Specializing in Television and Radio Stations CINCINNATI, 0. Paul E. Wagner Fifth Third Bank Bldg. DUnbar 1-7775 Now,.. 4 offices to better serve you. . . WEST COAST Lincoln Dellar & Co. Santa Barbara, Calif. WOodland 9-0770 OMAHA, NEB. Paul R. Fry P.O. Box 1733 (Benson) TErrace 9455 NEW YORK 41 E. 42nd St. MUr. Hill 7-8437