Broadcasting Telecasting (Jul-Sep 1960)

gram, entitled "The European Common Market," will be produced in Paris Sept. 13 or 14. Video tapes will be flown to net's tape duplication facilities at Ann Arbor, Mich., and stations will begin airing this year's series of 10 Mankind shows the week of Sept. 25. Labor on Labor Day ■ A special halfhour documentary film on the history of the labor movement, produced at the expense of the AFL-CIO, will be presented on ABC-TV at 5-5:30 p.m. EDT Sept. 4, the day before Labor Day. Titled "Land of Promise," the film has been produced by Joel O'Brien Productions, New York, and stars Melvyn Douglas. George Meaney, AFL-CIO president, said the network was presenting it as a public service. Stern's sports ■ Portraits and Profiles, a new sports show for radio, will be produced and distributed by Program Sales Inc., N.Y. The series, which stars Bill Stern, consists of 130 live-minute episodes. The spots will feature stories behind famous sports personalities and events of the last forty years. Otto predicts ■ Don Lasser of WICH Norwich, Conn., has announced that The Otto Graham Show will be distributed nationally for the second consecutive year. Coach Graham predicts the outcome of top college and professional football games during the course of the 13-week taped series which runs Sept. 12 through Dec. 5. There are two versions available: a weekly quarter-hour set for three-minute local participations; and six weekly 60second spots. The show has already been sold for the 1960 football season in over 100 exclusive markets. Time for Astaire ■ NBC-TV has scheduled the all-new full-hour Fred Astaire show, Astaire Time, for Sept. 28 (Wed. 10-11 p.m. EDT). Also appearing in the show will be Barrie Chase, David Rose and his orchestra, jazz leader Count Basic, and other personalities to be announced. Chrysler Corp., via Leo Burnett Co., Chicago, will sponsor. Mr. Astaire's two previous award-winning tv programs also were presented by Chrysler. TV cartoons ■ Bray Studios Inc. and Durham Telefilms Inc., both New York, announced jointly last week their organizations have joined forces to lease to tv stations the Bray Library of Cartoons, consisting of almost 100 black and white sound shorts which have not been seen on tv in about four years. In addition, Bray and Durham plan to produce a minimum of 100 new color cartoons beginning early next year. Investment news ■ Radio Press International, N.Y., voice news service, has announced the addition of a daily stock market report direct from the New York Stock Exchange. The new RPI financial service includes a weekly five-minute roundup program for weekend broadcast. Both programs are prepared in cooperation with the New York Stock Exchange. Pro team on tv ■ Sports Network Inc., N.Y., which last fall had a lineup of 85 tv stations for its coverage of all games in the Cleveland Browns pro football schedule, has announced plans to televise the team's 1960 schedule on a minimum 25-station network, consisting of stations in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania and the Northeast region of the U.S. Heart study ■ Metropolitan Broadcasting Corp.'s WNEW-TV New York is planning a public service series of hour-long medical documentaries, the first of which will be offered next Sunday (Aug. 21, 9-10 p.m. EDT). Entitled "A Question of Life," the series opener features two heart specialists who will present answers to some 25 SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA San Diego County last year had a net effective buying income of $2,106,045,000-. That total placed the market 20th among the nation's 200 leading counties. San Diegans shop first in the advertising columns of their two metropolitan newspapers: ^an Sliega Inion Evening Tribune ♦ COPYRIGHT 1960 SALES MANAGEMENT "SURVEY OF BUYING POWER" "The Ring of Truth' .15 HOMETOWN DAILY NEWSPAPERS COVERING SAN D I EGO, CALIFOR N lA " GREATER LOS ANGELES SPRINGFIELD; ILLINOIS AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS. SERVED BY THE COPLEY. WASH I NGTON BUREAU AND THE COPLEY NEWS SERVICE. REPRESENTED NATIONALLY BY WEST-HOLLI DAY CO., INC. 64 (PROGRAMMING) BROADCASTING, August 15, 1960