Broadcasting (Apr - June 1960)

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->■7— 7— -rr Farm youth accomplishments are continually spotlighted by KWTV. Associate Farm Director Jim Hedrick (second from left) interviews Grand Champion lamb owner at livestock show, as purchaser and Oklahoma Governor Edmondson (far right) look on. Com /te tOf/TV CoMHWHillf fn>M Ue TOMR Hitt SAtEfyoK/ef in Ot/iicMi! EDGAR T. BELL, General Manager JACK DeLIER, Sales Manager Chicago council lifts radio-tv access ban Chicago broadcast executives last week won a qualified victory in their fight to cover city council proceedings with the tools of their trade. But they’ll have to wait until next fall for a decision on permanent unrestricted access. That was the sum and substance of an “agreement” reached by station managers and news directors of Chicago’s four commercial tv stations and the council’s rules committee headed by Alderman Harry L. Sain. Each station agreed to carry one taped two-hour telecast of a council meeting as a public service “without prejudice to the right of free access for television news coverage.” The meetings will be video-taped and carried the following Saturday by ABC’s WBKB (TV) on May 27, CBS' WBBMTV on June 10, NBC's WNBQ (TV) on June 24 and independent WGN-TV on July 7. Broadcasters also won the “privilege” to abstract audio or video recording highlights for spot newscasts prior to the Saturday public service telecasts and to edit the telecasts to two hours if the meetings run longer. Each station will provide its own newsmen and announcers for its assigned telecast. Duplicate tapes will be supplied to the other stations for spot news purposes. The formula was reached by station managers, news directors and aldermen on the rules committee after considerable controversy. A Modification ■ It is intended as a modification of a plan suggested by Sterling C. Quinlan, ABC vice president, who offered WBKB's facilities for a periodic public affairs telecast on an experimental basis. Other stations pointed out the offer should not be made a contingent for gaining equal access to spot news (Broadcasting, May 23) Other major principals involved in the equal access fight were Clark George, vice president of CBS-TV stations div. and general manager of WBBM-TV; Ward L. Quaal, vice president and general manager of WGNAM-TV; Lloyd E. Yoder. NBC vice president in charge of WNBQ and WMAQ; William Garry, news and public affairs director of WBBM-TV; Tom Foy, news director of WGN-AM-TV; Frank Jordan, news director of WNBQ and WMAQ and Con O’Dea news chief of WBKB which planned to air the first public affairs telecast Saturday (May 28). The council recesses for the summer after July 7. Station managers and rules com A request Gene Potts, disc jockey for WGIV Charlotte, N. C. (known as Genial Gene to his listeners) was not particularly surprised when a man wandered into his studio at 7:35 a.m. one morning last week and requested a tune. "Mary, Don’t You Weep,” was the title and it was to be dedicated to the man’s mother. What did unsettle Mr. Potts was the man’s name — Millott Faust — because every policeman in town had been out on an all-night manhunt for him in connection with the slaying of a patrolman. The disc jockey told the fugitive he should give himself up. Later Mr. Potts said he thought this is what Mr. Faust had in mind and that “it seemed he just needed someone to simplify things for him.” Mr. Potts told a minister, who conducted an early-morning show at that time, that he would run the religious show if the clergyman would escort the fugitive to the police station. The minister agreed and Mr. Potts alerted the law that its search was over. mittee members feel the experiment is designed to “explore all facets” of tv coverage and that it’s conceivable that telecasts of the meetings would resolve all opposition to full news coverage. Primarily, the aldermen have been concerned mostly with editing of film and tape which, they've often felt, presented their views and physical gestures out of context. (Few of them objected to radio-tv newsmen and commentators covering council meetings with paper and pencil.) Meanwhile, attorneys for the city of Chicago, acting on behalf of the council aldermen, have filed a petition in circuit court seeking dismissal of the mandamus action brought by the state’s attorney, Benjamin Adamowski of Cook County. It’s felt the state’s attorney’s suit might have been rendered somewhat moot in view of the rules committee’s decision, but it was understood that legal action would be pursued until the council’s rules are amended to remove the radio-tv ban. Rep agreement signed A reciprocal representation agreement between NBC and Regie No. 1. exclusive advertising representative for Europe No. 1 radio station in Paris was signed last week by NBC Board Chairman Robert W. Sarnoff and Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. An announcement from NBC last BROADCASTING, May 30, 1960 (THE MEDIA) 37