Broadcasting (Apr - June 1960)

New York, WCAU-TV Philadelphia and KMOX-TV St. Louis) will produce on tape and exchange with the other stations 13 half-hour public affairs programs, thus permitting each station to program two and one half hours of public affairs each week from May to September. Good life ■ Dr. Carlton Fredericks’ Living Should Be Fun radio series, a half-hour diet and nutrition show that has been a feature of WOR New York for the past five years, is currently being offered out-of-town on a one-station-per-market basis. Herb Saltzman, merchandising manager of WOR, is handling syndication of the programs, which are taped in WOR’s studios. Dr. Fredericks also tapes regional commercials in New York. Early station sales include: WGAR Cleveland; WLW Cincinnati; WDOE Dunkirk, N.Y.; WJTN Jamestown, N.Y.; WJMJ Philadelphia; WAAP Peoria, 111.; WGGO Salamanca, N.Y.; WSUN St. Petersburg, Fla.; KCUB Tucson, Ariz.; WIBX Utica, N.Y.; WCUM Cumberland, Md.; WHAM Rochester, N.Y.; KGON Portland, Ore.; WJMR New Orleans, and WGR Buffalo. Numbers up ■ WTVJ (TV) Miami obtained a print of “The Numbers Racket,” from the Armstrong Circle Theater CBS-TV series, shown on that station, at the request of the city manager. The program had advanced the theory that numbers rackets cannot thrive without police cooperation. Charges of laxity had been leveled at Miami police through a grand jury, WTVJ reports, and the city manager wished to show the film at the station May 19 to some 350 city officials and police department members. Wonderland revisited ■ Screen Gems has announced plans to present a halfhour color series based on “Alice in Wonderland” with production to start late this summer. Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse, Academy Award-winning scriptwriters, will produce the series. A search has begun for actors and a top composer. Residuals ■ Screen Actors Guild collected and distributed to members $2,337,849 in residual payments for reruns of tv entertainment films during the six months ended April 30, SAG reported. Residual payments from December 1953 to April 30, 1960, total $14,407,967. Tv "kickers" ■ A package of 10 short film clips, intended specifically as “kickers”, or humorous items for the close of local tv news broadcasts, is offered by Standby Humor Film Clips, 132 Surrey Drive, New Rochelle, N.Y. The clips, which are culled from news reel libraries, vary in length from 15 seconds to one minute. Scripts go with the package, but soundtrack narration also is provided, according to Bill Kling, president of the company. The tipoff ■ Heritage Productions Inc., N.Y., is distributing a series of 260 fiveminute golf shows for tv. The color series, entitled Golf Tip of the Day, features pro Dow Finsterwald showing viewers how to improve their games. The show is packaged by Herman Rush Assoc., N.Y., and will be produced by Brass Dolphin Inc., that city, in association with Rush. New producer ■ Bonnaker Productions has set up headquarters at Republic Studios, North Hollywood, Calif., as an independent tv enterprise. Edward J. Montagne, formerly executive producer of CBS-TV film shows in New York and later producer of the Phil Silvers Show on CBS-TV; Bill Friedberg, a writer on that series, and Neil Simon, also a tv writer, are the Bonnaker principals. Keystone Kops B Mack Sennett comedies, movie classics which gave Charlie Chaplin, Marie Dressier and others their start to stardom, are coming to television, Harry Tatelman, president of Hampshire Productions has announced. Moreover, Mack Sennett himself will serve as technical advisor of the tv series which will be based on the adventures of two comics who become involved with the bathing beauties and Keystone Kops that were Sennett trademarks 40 years ago. Franciscans to tv ■ A tv version of The Hour of St. Francis, weekly transcribed series on more than 600 radio stations, has been announced by Fr. Hugh Noonan, O.F.M. Fr. Noonan, who serves as director of the programs produced for the Third Order of St. Francis, said that cycles of 13 films are planned with such talent as Danny Thomas, Ann Blythe, Charles Laughton and MacDonald Carey. First two films have already been completed. Concurrently a campaign to help defray expenses of the public service tv series has been started. Further information may be obtained from The Hour of St. Francis, 218 E. 12th St., Los Angeles 15. NO, THIS IS “KNOE-LAND” (embracing industrial, progressive Arkansas, West Mississippi) JUST LOOK AT THIS MARKET DATA North Louisiana, South Drug Sales Automotive Sales General Merchandise $ 148,789,000 Total Retail Sales $1,286,256,000 $ 40,356,000 $ 299,539,000 Population 1,520,100 Households 423,600 Consumer Spendable Income $1,761,169,000 Food Sales $ 300,486,000 KNOE-TV AVERAGES 79.1% SHARE OF AUDIENCE According to March 1960 ARB we average 79.1% share of audience from 9 a.m. to midnight 7 days a week. CBS • ABC A James A. Noe Station Represented by H-R Television, Inc. Photo: The Johns-Mansville Products Corporation Plant located at Natchez, Mississippi, manufacturing insulating board and hardboard products from wood fibre. KNOE-TV Channel 8 Monroe, Louisiana BROADCASTING, May 30, 1960 69