Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

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Section of RADIO DAILY, Monday. October 31. 1949 — TELEVISION DAILY is fully protected by register and copyright FREEZE TO REMAIN UNTIL SPRING TELE TOPICS "THE CLOCK," NBC series recently sold ' to Lever Brothers, is an ultra-smooth production that too often is superior to the dramatic quality of the stories it presents. Last week, for example, was about a basically good but not overly bright boxer with an overpowering yen for the female of the species. He is led astray by a beautiful, greedy and libidinous Park Ave. matron who kills her husband and frames the fighter's manager for the foul deed. The fighter, conscience-ridden and out of condition, is knocked for a loop in his bid for the title. He returns to the girl's apartment in time to make a clean breast of the murder to a waiting detective and save his manager from the chair. . . . Bill Thunhurst and Bob Morgan turned in effective performances as the pug and his manager, while Brook Byron was properly attractive as the femme fatale. Films of training scenes and a fight, made by Ted Estabrook, were truly exciting and neatly integrated in the script. Direction by Laurence Schwab, Jr., pointed up the action neatly and used the Zoomar lens to great dramatic effect. Ernest Walling produces the series and Larry Semon is the voice of the clock. Adaptation for "The Fighter" was by Bob Wald. • ONE OF THE LARGEST WEBS ever assembled has been signed by Ford Dealers of America for the Kay Kyser show which bows on NBC Dec. 1 in the Thursday, 9-10 spot vacated last week by Buick's Olsen & Johnson show. Total of 48 stations will carry Kyser's musical quiz which will be produced and directed by Earl Eby. J. Walter Thompson is the agency. . . . CBS will drop "Sports Special" after the Nov. 4 airer and replace it with the Kirby Stone quintet, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 7-7:15 p.m., beginning Nov. 8. . . . Screen Actors Guild board of directors will report on the TV Authority negotiations at the SAG's annual membership meeting in H'wood Nov. 13. Announcement of the meeting said TVA "would conflict with and challenge SAG in the field of motion pictures." ^/ORLD VIDEO'S "Actors Studio," hit "™ last week by the ABC economy axe, moves to CBS beginning tomorrow nite in the spot vacated by "We The People," Tuesday, 9-9:30 p.m. . . . Two residents of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town housing development are helping to pay off their church's debts by collecting a dollar from each couple visiting their apartment to watch Saturday afternoon football games. . . . WNYC's TV film unit, headed by Cliff Evans, has completed its documentary film on housing. The 40-minute reel, titled '"For The Living," is narrated by Fredric March. Ford To Sponsor UN Sessions On CBS (Continued from Page 1) prexy Frank Stanton and the contract was signed through Kenyon & Eckhardt. The daily pickups are planned — from li a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 to 4 p.m. TV recordings of the programs are to be made available to other member states of the UN throughout the world. Statement By Gen. Romulo In announcing the series, Gen. Romulo said, "The Pord Motor Co., has undertaken to assume the entire cost of presenting these programs. This sponsorship includes a stipulation by the company itself that these programs are to be presented as a matter of public service and not as a method of product advertising. We are appreciative of the spirit that has made these arrangements possible. These daily programs are quite frankly to be considered experimental." Stanton said, "The sponsored television broadcasts present a great and exciting challenge and constitute a landmark in television's growth in the field of public affairs." New Film Series Ted Mack is planning to produce a series of 30-minute film versions of his "Original Amateur Hour" to augment the show's radio, TV, and stage unit lineup, it was announced yesterday. The films will be made by Reemack Enterprises, Inc., for TV presentation. TV's 'Silver Lining' In Sight— Swezey New Orleans — Television, "is beginning to see the silver lining," Bob Swezey, general manager of WDSUTV, said last week in an address before the New Orleans Business Men's Association. National and local advertisers are speedily providing the answer to the question of who will pay for TV, Swezey said. These sponsors will pay even though the costs are far in excess of those in radio because they are finding out that they get their money's worth." Wants Justice To Monochrome Although the continued growth of the medium is assured, Swezey said, there may be deterrents. "If for example the FCC should adopt standards now for any color system, compatible or otherwise, it would seriously retard the normal healthy development of the industry. We must have a reasonable opportunity first to do justice to the black and white system." Ruggles On ABC Web Starting Thursday, Nov. 3 "The Ruggles'," weekly half-hour domestic comedy series scripted by Fred Howard and starring Charlie Ruggles bows on ABC web Thursday, Nov. 3, 9:30 p.m. Featured in the cast will be Irene Tedrow, Tommy Bernard, Judy Nugent, Jimmy Hawkins and Margaret Kerry. Network airing will be via recording. The Week In Television Receiver Sales, Production Reach Record High Receivei' sales and production are at an all-time high with demand — undiminished by the color hearings before the FCC — still exceeding supply. Industry total for the year is expected to exceed the 2 ,000 ,000-set goal and may go as high as 2,300,000. . . . AFM established a wage scale for TV films of $27 per man for each "film program of 15 minutes or less duration, with or without commercial continuity or announcements, the rehearsing, recording and photographing of which does not exceed one hour." . . . Fireworks between Commissioner Robert F. Jones and Philco v-p David B. Smith enlivened the color hearings in Washington as Smith accused Jones of "pitching" for the CBS system. . . . U. S. District Court in Philadelphia ruled out a Pennsylvania regulation that would force censorship of TV films and held in effect that TV programs are interstate commerce and not subject to state regulation. . . . Substantial changes in major baseball league broadcasting rules were made with the result that the Justice Dept. suspended a probe of alleged antitrust violations. . . . Action by the 4-A on formation of Television Authority was postponed for not more than three weeks "to preserve continued unity among 4-A unions in the interests of the public and of our entertainment profession." FCC Sets Further Color Tests For February (Continued from Page 1) least until spring. The Commission also denied the RCA application for postponement of comparative demonstrations scheduled for Nov. 14 and called off its scheduled San Francisco trip to study the Color Television, Inc. system. The freeze is certain to be retained for many additional months, with all testimony in the hearing to be held off until February 13, when the color phase will be reopened. A week earlier CTI will demonstrate in Washington, with comparative demonstrations of the CBS, RCA and systems to be held beginning February 8. Direct testimony on the color issue will be resumed tomorrow, running three days and again on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. DuMont is still to complete its direct presentation, with Dr. Lee DeForest slated to follow. In addition A. T. & T. and Western Union have been invited to appear, and it is likely that some of the witnesses who have already appeared will be recalled for further questioning. The Commission's notice of Friday stated that there might be further direct testimony in February, before the cross-examination gets under way. The new schedule means that it will very likely be April at least before testimony on the UHF channels, separation and other issues than color will be heard. Friday's action, Commission sources said, would have been taken even if there had been no RCA petition for delay. Testimony thus far has demonstrated that no final decision can be made now, it was explained. Next week the Commission will issue a notice outlining further information it wants from participants in the color hearing. RCA, Friday issued the following statement on the FCC order: "In setting the date of February 8, 1950 for a demonstration of the three color television systems being proposed, the Commission has resisted Columbia Broadcasting System's invitation to haste. As RCA stated on October 26th. 'the public interest can be served only by a sound decision and not necessarily by a quick decision." "The revised schedule gives RCA the time it requested for the demonstration of the three systems of color television proposed t'd the FCC." I