Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

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Section of RADIO DAILY. Monday. December 5, 1949 — TELEVISION DAILY is fully protected by register and copyright SAY FCC WILL TALK THEATER-TV TELE TOPICS MAY KYSER's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, a radio feature of long standing a couple of years ago, came to NBCTV last week under the aegis of Ford Dealers of America. All the trappings were present — Kyser, announcer Ben Grauer and ork pilot Carl Hoff wore academic gowns and motar boards (Kyser's is white), with loads of visual gimmicks, some pleasant musical numbers and good production. But the heart of the show was an insult to the inteligence. This was a quiz — or is it kwiz? — that seemed to occupy most of the hour and in which the questions would have been easy for a singularly uninformed seventh-grader. But Kyser could not leave bad enough alone and insisted on putting the answers into the contestants' mouth with atrocious puns and equally unfunny gags, and their milking applause from the audience. . . . The best features of the show were the film commercials and Roy Marshall's explanation of the workings of a Ford motor. Latter, however, should have had more demonstration, perhaps through the use of cutaway models. . . Written by Bab Quigley and Larry Marks, program is produced and directed by Earl Ebi. Agency is J. Walter Thompson. Regulars, all talented and attractive, include the Honeydreamers, Sue Bennett, Liza Palmer and Michael Douglas. XA/ITH CAMELS picking up the tab on ™ ™ the Ed Wynn show and moving it to Saturday, CBS becomes the first web to do a strong programming job that nite despite NBC's heralded participating lineup which has not yet made its appearance and shows no signs of doing so. The Wvnn stanza will be backed against the Ken Murray show, giving CBS an hour and a half of high-budget production. Columbia is auditioning several shows for the Thursday, 9 p.m. spot to be vacated by Wynn, with Abe Burrows and Robert Q. Lewis high among the prospects. M. Y. HUDSON dealers will bankroll the ' ^ Ziv "Easy Aces" film on WABD, beginning Dec. 14, through Klores & Carter. Format shows Goody and Jane Ace at home, offering running comment on programs crossing the screen of their receiver. . . . Hope and Morey Bunin will take their "Lucky Pup" cast to St. Vincent's Hospital tomorrow for a special performance at a children's Christmas party. They'll use the portable stage that served them during their years in vaudeville with the puppets. ... To the grisly hobbies department add Hugh G. Lynch, CBS color technician, who's been aiming his camera at surgical operations around the country. He collects gallstones which, he says, are pyramid -shaped and beautifully colored. Interim ASCAP Fees For Video Indies Set An agreement on the use of ASCAP music on a per-program basis by independent television stations came to an understanding Friday at a meeting between ASCAP and the telecasters committee. By the agreement, indie video stations would make interim payments to ASCAP during the period of negotiations. Such payments would be subject to adjustment when the station signs a per-program or blanket license form. Mailed to Stations Both forms have gone out simultaneously to the stations, which will have 30 days after their receipt to make a decision. The stations will be indemnified by ASCAP during the temporary license period. They will have a choice of several options when it comes to signing the final longterm contract. The temporary licenses are extended for the period of the negotiations. Interim payments are flat monthly fees retroactive to Jan. 1 of this year or to date the station went on the air, whichever is later, and will vary in amount, depending on the income bracket into which the station fits. WBKB Sells Film Show Mullen And Johnston In Fairbanks Reorg. West Coast Bureau of RADIO DAILY Hollywood — Frank E. Mullen has been named board chairman, and Russ Johnston, vice-president, of Jerry Fairbanks, Inc., in a reorganization and expansion of the film producing firm nMH^^ I announced to day Both Mul" w B len, former exec v-p at 1STBC and more recently president of the G. A. Richards stations, and Johnston, who A resigned Friday L as NBC film di ^^tT 1W rector, will be|^ p\ MB come "substantial stockholdMULLEN ers" in the firm, Fairbanks said. Fairbanks remains as president and will be in charge of all production activities. Production facilities in New York and Hollywood will be expanded early next year, Fairbanks said. The firm will develop and package film programs and will set up its own distributing and sales agencies. Shows will be filmed by the firm's recently developed three-camera technique. Chicago — Red Goose shoe dealers, sorship of an hour-long Saturday through Henri. Hurst & McDonald, morning children's film series. Pact have signed with WBKB for spon I runs 13 weeks. ITPA, TP A Plan To Merge Into New Nat'l Organization Plans for merger of the Independent Television Producers Association, New York, and Television Producers Association, Hollywood, into a new national organization of program packagers were outlined Friday by Irvin Paul Sulds, ITPA prexy, and Mai Boyd, president of TPA. Merger proposal has already been approved by the New York group and will be voted on in the near future by the board of the Coast organization. Initial joint project is formulation of a national code designed "to bring some semblance of order, of standardization, of ethics into the television producers' daily relations with station, with agency, with client," Boyd and Sulds said, Their joint statement continued: "This is a code which we will not attempt to 'ram through' networks and agencies. We will discuss the subject matter with various committees of networks and agencies and eventually arrive at a mutually acceptable 'modus operandi'." Also on the agenda is standardization of all contract forms used by packagers — labor, talent, buyer, etc. James Lawrence Fly and Max Gilford, counsel for ITPA and TPA, respectively, are supervising this project. To strengthen the organization, a membership drive is planned to sign up all major packagers. Also planned are a series of seminars on legal problems and a project to aid producers audition shows for network and agency execs, Reported Ready To Date Hearing Late This Mo. Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILY Washington — A hearing on theater television probably will be announced by the FCC late this month, it was learned here last week. Exactly when the hearing can be scheduled still is uncertain, the belief being that it will not actually get under way before next Fall. It is reliably reported that the report now is in preparation and that it will be presented to the full Commission some time before the Christmas holidays. The setting of the hearing will mean the passage of the first major hurdle in the way of establishing a national theater TV system utilizing radio frequencies. Recent TOA moves resulting in the filing of petitions by exhibitor groups and individual circuits are believed to have been the decisive factors in leading the FCC to call the hearine Paramount, 20th-Fox SMPE and MPAA have also petitioned for the rulemaking procedure. New Theater Petitions Attorney Marcus Cohn filed two more petitions Friday for theater TV service, on behalf of Sam Pinanski's American Theaters Corp. and Morton G. Thalheimer's Neighborhood Theaters, of Richmond, Va. Pinanski, operating in the Boston area, is head of TOA and has been active in experimental theater TV in recent months. His Pilgrim Theater, Boston, was one of the handful which screened the 1949 world series, and it has also been carrying telecasts of football games. In addition to stressing the cultural advantages to Boston, as a fine arts center, the petition said a theater TV service "will permit the healthy experimentation and introduction of innovations, in the TV field, which the Commission in its so-called Blue Book has so strongly urged. Sponsor Tenoin Tourney On DuMont By Brunswick Brunswick Balke Collender will SDonsor men's and women's finals of the All Star National Individual Match Gnme Bowling ChamoionshiDS in Chicago over 18 Du Mont stations De~. 8 and 11. Pickups, to be described by Fred Wolf, mark the first time a major bowling tournament has been seen on network TV. Business was placed through Al Paul Lefton agency.