Broadcasting Telecasting (Jul-Sep 1960)

PROGRAMMING WHAT'S NEW ON DAYTIME TELEVISION Network plans for fall show there are few changes in store Weekday television is shaping up for the fall with program shuffles on each network. New serials are born to replace those that die. A mobile tape show is added by one network as a similar series is scuttled by another. Two game shows will have their first time out this fall on separate networks, and a morning variety show is leaving. Otherwise, viewers will have roughly the same selection of games, drama and reruns they are used to. One standard, Queen or a Day, is sure to remain but its dial address is uncertain between ABC-TV, which made a deal to get the show, and NBC-TV, which has it now and intends to keep it. Major changes in the three schedules are noted below, followed by the Monday-through-Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. lineups. ABC-TV to fill a new hour at the top of its card, ABC is doubling Day In Court, adding a "morning session" in the 11-11:30 leadoff spot, and programming a new afternoon series, Road to Reality, at 2:30-3 p.m. Two established afternoon hours are being acquired, while two others will be struck. Love That Bob moves from 12:30 to the half-hour 60 minutes earlier. The network had announced for this spot a new serial, Hope Springs, but this apparently has been abandoned with intended acquisition of Queen For a Day. Reruns of The Texan, currently on the CBS nighttime schedule, replace Restless Gun, 12-12:30, the latter banished. ABC wants to start Queen For a Day in the 12:30 half-hour beginning Oct. 10 but is prepared if necessary to fill with something else until expiration of the NBC contract at the end of the year. NBC is contesting ABC's announced acquisition of Queen, holding it has a verbal agreement for renewal (Broadcasting, June 27). The rest of the current ABC schedule stands, with Road to Reality in for the Gale Storm Show, which is dropped in the fall. CBS-TV ■ Three new half-hours, a game and two serials highlight the fall lineup (Broadcasting, June 27). The game. Video Village, replaces at 10:3011 a.m. Jack Linkletter"s mobile tape show. On the Go. Far Horizon, which may show up at 11: 30 under a different title, and Full Circle are the new 30minute serials, the latter already on the air instead of For Better or Worse, which left the network last month. NBC-TV ■ Changes are localized in the afternoon, with Queen For a Day moved to the end half-hour of the day, 4:30-5 p.m., and a new entry, The Jan Murray Show subtitled Charge Account, substituted at 2-2:30. This is described as a game with elements of comedy and marks the return of the old Treasure Hunt m.c. after that show was cancelled in last fall's purge of prize programs. The network is enthusiastic about another addition, Here's Hollywood, which will tour the film capital on tape, presenting interviews, fashions, fan news, interior decorating and film-location features. Here's Hollywood goes in at 4-4:40 p.m. in the place of Comedy Playhouse reruns which will be seen no more. Make Room for Daddy, 3:30-4 p.m. reruns of the Danny Thomas Show now on lately on CBS-TV Monday nights, will replace From These Roots, which is being dropped. 1960-61 NETWORK DAYTIWIE SCHEDULE (Monday through Friday) 8 8:30 8:30-9 9 9:30 9:30-10 10 10:30 10:30-11 11 11:30 11:30-12 12 12:30 12:30-1 1-1:30 ABC-TV Day in Court Love That Bob The Texan Queen for a Day About Faces CBS-TV News (8-8:15) Captain Kangaroo (8:15-9) December Bride Video Village I Love Lucy Far Horizons Love of Life Search for Tomorrow (12:30-12:45) Guiding Light (12:45-1) News (1-1:05) NBC-TV Today (7-10) Dough Re Mi Play Your Hunch Price is Right Concentration Truth or Consequence; It Could Be You 1:30-2 2 2:30 2:30-3 3 3:30 3:30-4 4 4:30 4:30-5 5-5:30 5:30-6 ABC-TV Day in Court Road to Reality Beat the Clock Who Do You Trust American Bandstand Action-Cartoon Strip CBS-TV As the World Turns Full Circle Houseparty The Millionaire Verdict Is Yours Brighter Day (4-4:15) Secret Storm (4:15-4:30) Edge of Night NBC-TV Jan Murray Show Loretta Young Theatre Young Dr. Malone Make Room For Daddy Here's Hollywood Queen For a Day WGN-TV to syndicate Notre Dame football The U. of Notre Dame will televise all its football games this fall on a national delayed basis, with WGN-TV Chicago's syndication sales department handling sales and distribution rights for the video taped versions. For Notre Dame, it will mark the second straight year of delayed telecasts. For the Tribune Co.'s station, it will assay WGN-TV's first solid entry in the vtr syndication field. Among other properties slated for distribution: the award-winning Great Music from Chicago and The Blue Fairy. Over 100 stations are expected to carry the 1960 ND football schedule. A third principal in the agreement is Newspix Inc., N.Y., which will provide transmission and network facilities. The fourth: Notre Dame's own commercial property. WNDU-TV South Bend, Ind. Plans were announced Thursday by Thomas Hamilton, general manager of WNDU-TV; Mickey Greenman, president of Newspix, and Edward W. (Moose) Krause, ND athletic director. The telecasts will be produced by WNDU-TV and video taped for de layed playback, in most cases for Sunday televiewing. Harry Wismer will handle play-by-play and Mr. Krause the color background. Games will be edited to one complete hour with every play and will be offered for sponsorship. The telecasts will run Sept. 24 through Nov. 26. The fight box office TelePrompTer Corp., New York, announced last week that more than half a million spectators paid a record $2,274,662 to view the closed circuit telecast of the Patterson-Johansson 64 BROADCASTING, July 4, 1960