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ause the largest viewing audience will e available then, but until that time omes, we must offer entertainment with rong audience appeal.
DRAMA FAVORED
OR almost a year and a half before the ^ar began, we presented television adaptions of successful Broadway plays that m from an hour to an hour and a half, udience reports favored dramatic pro'ams right from the start. Jane Eyre, for istance, oiuof a3 for excellent, received n audience rating of 2.76, or figuring in round numbers, 91 per cent out of hundred. Every single dramatic presatation we gave polled a rating above .5 or 86 per cent.
Outside sporting pick-ups were the cond choice of the audience, and a igh ranking favorite that surprised all f us was wrestling which averaged high" in audience reactions than boxing, 'here were probably two contributing ictors. One was that wrestling was :heduled regularly in the evening once week, and the other was that we were )le to do a good pictorial job. The renas were smaller than Madison Square rarden and we were able to get closer ) the ring. The action for the most part as confined to a relatively small space ad the audience liked it.
BOXING RATES
Boxing is a good television program ut there are still lots of things to be
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done in the way of pick up arrangements. Every l)oxing match tliat has l)eeii televised so far from a |)nl)lic arena has picked up the '^.^'n ■'> '• l)rightly lighted ring against a background of l)hickness which does not tend to make a good television picture, but it only takes a small stretch of the imagination to visualize boxing contests staged for the television audience presented in properly lighted studios.
FOOTBALL PICK UP
Another sport that lends itself particularly to television is football. You have from 14 to 16 men in a close group so that the play is easily picked up by the television cameras. Passes and kick-offs obviously demand cjuick and careful camera action but particularly good results have been achieved by putting the responsibility for the shots entirely in the hands of the camera man. With two or more cameras following any sporting event, the director in the control room then has the choice of which camera to use. Baseball is not a particularly easy sport to pick up, but when four cameras are available and you can have one behind home plate, two for the infield and one for the outfield, you can do a good job. It is e\en possible with only two cameras to give a very intelligent picture. Equipment limitations seriously impede a good pick up of a horse race because of the distance involved. We usually had our camera on top of the grand stand and while we got a good picture of the finish, the start was almost too small to have very much pictorial value when it occurreci across the track from the grand stand. Since the same thing is true when one is actually at a race, we should not be too critical of television limitations w^hen we would be unable to see any more if we were at the race in person. Some day we will virtually be able to be in two places at once, because television race track pick ups of the future will involve multiple camera location and by switching from camera lo camera as the race progresses, we will be able to view the horses all the way around the track.
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