Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1963)

Page scan 000306 from Broadcasting Telecasting

Record Details:

Title:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Date:
Oct-Dec 1963
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Broadcasting Publications Inc.
Volume:
Broadcasting
Leaf #:
000306
Language:
English
Subjects:
radio and television periodical, Broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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concluded that as a Broadway presentation the play is "at best a flawed document rather than a drama with fresh insights"— but, even so, a "salutary" evocation for a generation unfamiliar with the case. Jack Gould, television and radio critic of the Times, saw signs that television and Broadway "already have a major point in common — script trouble." He rated Westinghouse "a bold angel" and the TV presentation "an act of formidable cultural bravado since [it] meant that viewers had to forget their usual weekly favorites out of Hollywood." In the New York Herald-Tribune Richard S. Salant, president CBS News, last week explained why he canceled the appearance of South Vietnam's Mrs. Nhu on the CBS-TV program, Face the Nation, Oct. 4. In special filmed footage for the National Educational Television's weekly At Issue, Mr. Salant said that Mrs. Nhu's "many appearances on other network news programs reduced the importance of her remarks on one more program." He added that the cancellation was not a result of the State Department suggestion that she had been re drama critic Walter Kerr characterized the play as "a good deed in what I am afraid may be an ungrateful world," with "stretches of performing that compel absolute attention." He had some reservations, but John Horn, TV critic in the same paper, did not. From a TV standpoint, Mr. Horn said, the operation "was a success" and the TV version "a largely successful compromise of transposing the stage play into television terms." In the New York World-Telegram and Sun Norman Nadel, theater critic, thought the play failed to do justice to the Sacco-Vanzetti story. But Harriet ceiving more coverage than she warranted. He pointed out that this suggestion was made three days after her scheduled appearance on CBSTV. "Had I not canceled the broadcast previously," he said, "I might have been less inclined to do so after the admonition." Mr. Salant was one of eight newsmen on At Issue. The eight were asked for their opinion of what determined the "newsworthiness" of a figure such as Mrs. Nhu. Mr. Salant is shown (above-1) with Alvin Perlmutter, executive producer of At Issue. Van Home, the paper's TV -radio critic, gave a better report. "Such defects as there were originated in the script, not in the acting or the camera work," she wrote. "True, there was little movement within the box of the stage, but for theater-starved folk out of town, surely this play was a great event." John McClain, drama critic of the New York Journal-American, described the Broadway production as "a sincere and earnest effort" but said "it just isn't very exciting." He acknowledged, however, that "it may have been wonderfully well adapted to taped TV." The New York Daily News rated it "more interesting technically than emotionally," but on the paper's TV side Kay Gardella gave it a long and favorable report. The Associated Press and the now defunct New York Mirror thought it apt to have limited appeal, but United Press International gave it favorable notice from both stage and TV standpoints. The Westinghouse TV stations are wbz-tv Boston, kdka-tv Pittsburgh, kyw-tv Cleveland, kpix(tv) San Francisco and wjz Baltimore. Film sales . . . Stony Burke (United Artists) : Sold to wnew-tv New York; wttg(tv) Washington; kmbc-tv Kansas City, Mo.; kovr(tv) Stockton, Calif.; wtvh (tv) Peoria, 111. and wtvp(tv) Decatur, 111. Now in 45 markets. Bomba (Allied Artists): Sold to wmct(tv) Memphis; wqad-tv Moline, 111.; wral-tv Raleigh, N. C; ktsm-tv El Paso, Tex.; kchu(tv) San Bernardino, Calif.; wnbe(tv) New Bern, N. C; klfy-tv LaFayette, La. and wghp-tv High Point, N. C. Now sold in 85 markets. Volume 3 (Seven Arts) : Sold to wfmj-tv Youngstown, Ohio, and wdbotv Orlando, Fla. Now in 115 markets. Volume 4 (Seven Arts): Sold to wbtv(tv) Charlotte, N. C, and wdbotv Orlando, Fla. Now in 91 markets. Volume 5 (Seven Arts): Sold to wbtv(tv) Charlotte, N. C. and wdbotv Orlando, Fla. Now in 89 markets. Volume 1 (Seven Arts): Sold to wdbo-tv Orlando, Fla. Now in 144 markets. Volume 2 (Seven Arts): Sold to wdbo-tv Orlando, Fla. Now in 121 markets. Special Features (Seven Arts): Sold to kptv(tv) Portland, Ore.; ktvu(tv) San Francisco; kogo-tv San Diego; kbtv(tv) Denver; ksho-tv Las Vegas and wfmj-tv Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Nhu's news value nil to CBS's Saiant 78 (PROGRAMING) BROADCASTING, October 21, 1963