Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1963)

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First in Transistorized Audio and Video I „ ? NEW GENERAL ELECTRIC TRANSISTORIZED GATED UNI LEVEL AMPLIFIER only $325 (less power supply) The new BA-29-A Gated Unilevel Amplifier rounds out General Elect ric's line of transistorized audio products— a line first introduced in 1958. The BA-29-A is the first all-transistorized automatic gain control amplifier to offer frequency response within ldb and less than 1% harmonic distortion, 50 to 15,000 cycles, with up to 30 db of compression. Other features and characteristics include: . * • Noise output decreased when signal is removed. • Low temperature operation —power input only 8 watts. • Output noise: —120 dbm relative input, includes all frequencies up to 45 KC, e Excellent control of output level, 10:1 compression ratio. For full details, contact your G-E Broadcast Equipment Representative, or write: Technical Products Operation GENERAL @ ELECTRIC 212 West Division Street, Syracuse 8, N.Y. since had indicated their desire to keep the series starring Miss Ball (and produced by Desilu Productions of which she is president and the major stockholder) going for a second season, but the star had until the middle of March to make her own decision. This is the second Desilu-owned series to be set for 1963-64. The other is The Greatest Show on Earth, 60 minute color series starring Jack Palance, which will be on ABC-TV. 20th Century starts sales of new series Twentieth Century-Fox Television which released Follow the Sun and Bus Stop series to syndication, has sold both of them to WNEW-TV New York and WTTG (TV) Washington, George T. Shupert, vice president in charge of sales, announced last week. Both one-hour series are off-network properties, having played on ABC-TV. The distributor is offering 25 episodes of Bus Stop and 30 episodes of Follow the Sun. Film sales . . . "Columbia Post-'50s" (Screen Gems): Sold to KOGO-TV San Diego; KGOTV San Francisco; KTNT-TV TacomaSeattle; WKBN-TV Youngstown; WJAR-TV Providence; WWL-TV New Orleans; WHO-TV Des Moines; WLOSTV Asheville, N. C; WEEK-TV Peoria, 111.; KARD-TV Wichita; WOKR (TV) Rochester, N. Y.; WDAU-TV Scranton, Pa.; KOVR (TV) Stockton, Calif.; KMBC-TV Kansas City; WLBWTV Miami; KLYD-TV Bakersfield, Calif., and KMJ-TV Fresno. Deputy Dawg (CBS Films) : Sold to Metropolitan Broadcasting for WNEWTV, New York; WTTG (TV) Washington, D. C; KMBC-TV Kansas City; KOVR (TV) Stockton-Sacramento; WTVH (TV) Peoria and WTVP (TV) Decatur, 111. 33 Feature Films (Embassy Pictures Corp.): Sold to KGO-TV San Francisco; WFLA-TV Tampa; WGR-TV Buffalo and KTVK (TV) Phoenix. Also sold to KUTV (TV) and KSL-TV (both Salt Lake City) who will split titles. Trails West (Robeck & Co.): Sold to WMAL-TV Washington; WKJG-TV Fort Wayne, Ind.; KTSM-TV El Paso, Tex.; KETV (TV) Omaha, Neb.; WTVY (TV) Dothan, Ala.; KXII (TV) Sherman-Denison, Tex.-Ardmore, Okla.; KCND-TV Pembina, N. D.; KN OX-TV Grand Forks, N. D.; KXGO-TV Fargo, N. D.; KFSA-TV Fort Smith, Ark.; WPTZ (TV) Pittsburgh, N. Y.; WFBC-TV Greenville, 74 (PROGRAMMING) S. C; WTVH (TV) Peoria, 111.; WSILTV Harrisburg, 111.; KTVE (TV) El Dorado, Ark.-Monroe, La.; KHOL-TV Kearney-Holdrege, Neb. Seven Arts' Volumes 4 and 5 (Seven Arts Assoc.): Sold to WNCT (TV) Greenville, N. C; WFAA-TV DallasFt. Worth; KOMO-TV Seattle, Wash, and WHAS-TV Louisville, Ky. Seven Arts' Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (Seven Arts' Assoc.): Sold to WNCT (TV) Greenville, N. C. Ed Allen Time (Fred Niles) : Sold to WMAL-TV Washington, and WSAUTV Wausau, Wis. Now in 32 markets. Century I, 30 feature films (20th Century-Fox Tv) : Sold to KTTV (TV) Los Angeles, WTMJ-TV Milwaukee; XETV (TV) Tijuana-San Diego; WSEE (TV) Erie, Pa.; WJBF (TV) Augusta, Ga.; WBIR-TV Knoxville, and WDBJTV Roanoke. Now sold in 3 1 markets. 156 Hanna-Barbera Cartoons (Screen Gems): Sold to WCAU-TV Philadelphia; KTVT (TV) Fort Worth-Dallas; WTTV (TV) Bloomington-Indianapolis; KWTV (TV) Oklahoma City; KOLN-TV Lincoln; KGNC-TV Amarillo; WJHG-TV Panama City; WALBTV Albany, Ga.; WFBC-TV Greenville, S. C, and KROD-TV El Paso. Now sold in 61 markets. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (Four Star): Sold to WPIX (TV) New York. (Reported price: $300,000.) Now sold in 41 markets. TAC plans program conference Television Affiliates Corp. will hold its annual programming conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago June 1314 with approximately 50 program directors expected to attend. Robert Weisberg, president, said topics on the schedule include: new ideas in children's programming; the influence of research on programming; success stories in the sale of public affairs shows; editorializing; movies and network re-runs, and new programming and production ideas. The agenda for the meeting was arranged by Roy Smith, WLAC-TV Nashville; Stan Cohen, WDSU-TV New Orleans and Lew Klein, WFIL-TV Philadelphia. Ewell show in syndication Four Star Distribution Corp. has placed the Tom Ewell Show into syndication and has sold the 32 half-hour episodes to WPIX (TV) New York and KABC-TV Los Angeles for a combined total of $125,000, it was announced last week by Len Firestone, vice president and general manager of the distribution company. The series formerly was presented on CBS-TV. BROADCASTING, March 18, 1963