Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1962)

Videotape Productions adds three new men Videotape Productions of New York Inc. last week announced the addition of three new men as part of a company reorganization prompted by an increase in business volume since the opening earlier this fall of an additional large studio. The Videotape center's new personnel are Charles Adams and Don Kyser, both named account executives in the sales department, and Dick Rendely, who becomes the firm's sixth staff producer. Mr. Adams was previously senior account executive at MGM Telestudios, New York. Mr. Kyser was formerly program and eastern sales manager for the QXR Radio Network. Mr. Rendely was execuuve tv producer at Hicks & Greist, New York, and vice president of production and sales at William La Cava Assoc., New York. New assignments in the reorganization program include the shift of Herb Hobler, formerly sales manager, to director of production operations. John B. Lanigan, vice president and general manager, has assumed Mr. Hobler's former functions. Phil McEneny and Hal Stone have moved from sales into the production department as staff producers. /lr. Kyser r. Rendely gram, which is being co-produced by NBC-TV and Associated-Rediffusion and will be shown on commercial tv in United Kingdom, is an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's Shannon's Way novel (At Deadline, Oct. 15). Mr. Taylor will be in the title role. Directory of free films ■ Over 130 hours of film programming offered to tv stations at no cost is described in the new tv Programming Guide, being distributed by Sterling Movies U. S. A. Inc., New York. The listings include 87 half-hour and 57 quarter-hour public service programs. Acquires series ■ Hoffberg Productions Inc., New York, last week announced it had acquired world release of a series of 13 Morgantone News programs. Each 10-minute segment features tv comedian Henry Morgan in the newsreel-style comedies. Adds series ■ KMOX St. Louis has bought The Shadow, a radio drama series syndicated by Charles Michelson Inc., New York. The show is now in 23 markets. Free film ■ Two films depicting the scientific search for oil have been released by the Arabian American Oil Co. Titled The Science of Oil and The Explorers, both 16mm features are being distrib Filmways Inc. has decided to get out of the tv production field in the New York area, it was disclosed last week in the annual report of the company for the fiscal year 1962 ended Aug. 31. An agreement has been reached to lease or sublease Filmways' New York facilities to Sutherland Assoc. Inc., New York, but at the same time Filmways will continue its west coast tv and feature film production. In tv, Filmways is the producer of the highly popular Beverly Hillbillies. In a notice of the annual stockholders meeting, to be held in New York Dec. 27, remuneration of officers showed that Martin Ransohoff chairman of the board, received $67,600; Will Cowan, vice president of the company and of Filmways of California Inc., a subsidiary, and director of tv commercials, $50,276, plus percentage uted on a free-loan basis to tv stations by Sterling Movies U. S. A. Inc., New York. The Science of Oil is 20 minutes in length; The Explorers, 27 minutes. Musical drama cancelled ■ Leonard Bernstein's original modern musical drama, which had been scheduled for April 1, 1963, on CBS-TV, has been cancelled because of the composer-conductor's "tremendously heavy schedule." The Ford Motor Co. had ordered sponsorship of the special, along with three other programs in the Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic series. Those broadcasts will be seen as scheduled. Science fiction series " New science fiction series, Stand-By, is being produced by Joe Stefano's independent company. Villa de Stefano, through Daystar Productions for ABC-TV, with the pilot filmed last week at MGM studios in Hollywood. Leslie Stevens, Daystar's executive producer, directed the pilot from a script co-written with Frank Moss. Cliff Robertson, Jacqueline Scott and Lee Philips starred. NBC-TV daytime changes ■ NBC-TV last week announced the following changes in its Mon.-Fri. afternoon program schedule, effective Dec. 31. They are: The Match Game, a new game show produced by Goodson-Todm^n, to begin Dec. 31 at 4-4:25 p.m. EST. NBC News Afternoon Report, a fiveminute news program, will move from 4:55 p.m. to 4:25 p.m. Make Room For Daddy will move from 4-4:30 p.m. to 4:30-5 p.m., as previously announced. Here's Hollywood, now broadcast 4:30-4:55 p.m., will be dropped Dec. 28. of the profits of the California subsidiary and other emoluments; Rodney Erickson, president, $42,300 (Mr. Erickson resigned last month); Al Simon, president of Filmways Tv Productions Inc., a subsidiary, $46,674 plus extras. Lee Moselle has been president of the company since Nov. 12. Consolidated revenues of Filmways and subsidiaries for the fiscal year reached $12,829,849, up 81% over 1961, but expenses were $13,105,709, resulting in a net loss of $275,860. A federal income tax credit of $150,000 reduced this loss to $125,860. In the 1961 fiscal year, Filmways revenues were $7,073,959; its net loss was $288,466 reduced after federal income tax credit to $152,966. Working capital at the beginning of the year was $964,712; this increased by the end of the year to $984,455. Filmways to quit tv production in N.Y. WEST COAST ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE, SAYS REPORT 74 (PROGRAMMING) BROADCASTING, December 10, 1962