Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1963)

heads of networks and advertising agencies to make a public stand against the list. Mr. Brand's comments made up the few radio-tv specifics in what was a general discussion of today's status of blacklisting. Program notes... Intertel production ■ Tahiti-Pacific Cocktail, ninth in a series of International Television Federation (Intertel) documentaries, is being produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in partnership with broadcasters in Can ada, Great Britain and the U. S. The program, scheduled for viewing in January in more than 20 countries, will be syndicated in the U. S. by Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. WBC and the National Educational Television & Radio Center are the U. S. members of Intertel. 'Girl Talk' plans ■ ABC Films Inc., New York, announces an additional I 3 weeks of production on Girl Talk, a half-hour, five-day-a-week series. Started Dec. 3, 1961, in five markets, the program stars Virginia Graham and GOVERNMENT guests. Now in 16 markets, the series has been ordered for sponsorship by several advertisers in additional markets, predicated upon the program's purchase by stations. New TAC Show ■ Television Affiliates Corp., New York, has added The Land of the Distelfink produced by WFIL-TV Philadelphia, to its library. Wolper to expand activities ■ Wolper Productions, Hollywood, which has confined its activities to tv documentaries, plans to enlarge operations to include dramatic tv filmed programs. $9 million kiss between RCA and Philco SETTLED; PATENT DISPUTE AND CH. 3 PHILADELPHIA HASSLE A legal obstacle to the proposed exchange of NBC's Philadelphia stations for RKO General's Boston stations was removed last week with announcement that Philco Broadcasting Co. and its parent Ford Motor Co. had reached an agreement with RCA-NBC resolving long-standing litigation. NBC and RKO General have pending at the FCC a plan to swap WRCV p" : . ~7" ■ ; ~ Cuisine Exquise . . , Dans Une Atmosphere Elegante RESTAURANT vomN 575 Park Avenue at 63rd St. NEW YORK Lunch and Dinner Reservations Michel : TEmpleton 8-64-90 AM-TV Philadelphia and WNAC-AMTV and WRKO (FM) Boston. A two-part accord was reached Jan. 3 between RCA and Philco. First they settled a long-standing dispute in the patent license field, with RCA agreeing to pay Philco a flat $9 million for Philco patent rights. Second, NBC and Philco announced they are filing with the FCC a joint request for withdrawal of Philco's application to operate a ch. 3 tv station in Philadelphia. The ch. 3 action has stood in the way of the RKO General-NBC exchange of Boston and Philadelphia facilities. If the FCC approves the Philco withdrawal request, NBC will repay Philco "for the expenses it has reasonably incurred in furthering its application." The amount had not been determined last week. Philco filed a protest to NBC's Philadelphia ch. 3 renewal application in 1957 and filed an application for the facility in 1960. The joint RCA-NBC and Ford-Philco damage suit settlement does not involve payment of any consideration "for Philco's agreement to seek withdrawal of its application for the Philadelphia station license. Both the license agreement and the agreement to settle the damage claims between the parties already are in force, and neither is contingent upon FCC approval of the request to withdraw the Philco application for ch 3 in Philadelphia." Hearing Resumes ■ When FCC Chief Hearing Examiner James D. Cunningham resumes hearings today (Jan. 7) in the Philco application for ch. 3 in Philadelphia, Irving Segal, counsel for NBC, will propose that the record in the case be closed now that Philco has agreed to withdraw its application. NBC Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff had been scheduled to testify at the hearings which were originally scheduled to 58 resume Jan. 2. The FCC Broadcast Bureau, a party to the case, will appear. The RCA-Philco patent agreement specifies that RCA will get non-exclusive licenses under all present Philco and Ford United States patents for radio apparatus including color tv, transistors and data processing equipment, all being for the full lives of the patents. RCA will be free for the next five years to use any domestic color tv patent issuing to Philco on an application filed after the date of the agreement. Non-Exclusive Licenses ■ Ford and Philco receive non-exclusive licenses from RCA under all present domestic patents and patent applications relating to radio-purpose apparatus (other than color tv), transistors and data processing equipment, running for the full lives of the patents. In addition Ford and Philco are granted rights under RCA color tv patents that were issued before Oct. 28, 1958 as well as on applications filed prior to that date. These cover inventions needed to comply with the FCC standards for color tv. Later color tv patent rights will be available to Ford and Philco at the prevailing rate for such licenses. An important phase of the agreement is the settlement, without payment of damages by either company, of the litigation between them that has been pending since 1957 in the U. S. District Court, Philadelphia. Philco is withdrawing its elaim for $150 million damages against RCA and RCA is withdrawing its claim for $174 million damages against Philco. Chief Examiner Cunningham is presiding at hearings in progress since last October on the proposed PhiladelphiaBoston trade, an NBC renewal applica BROADCASTING, January 7, 1963 MUJJJJJJJJfll