Ross reports -- television index. (1956)
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THIS WEEK( Cont * d )
Saturday (Jan 5 )
CBS 2-4pm EST; DEBUT Big League Hockey LIVE from WRCA-TV(NY), premiere game;
no. of stations indefinite; games also from Detroit, Chicago and Boston dur¬ ing the season. § Regional net sponsor (Midvest) Carling Brewing Co., Inc (Carling’s Black Label Beer) thru Lang, Fisher & Stashower, Inc (Cleveland ). §
Pkgr CBS Sports(NY); Prod Peter Molnar; Dir Richard Liesendohl. § Telecasts of ten games Between National Hockey League teams, Jan 5 thru March 9 > with Bud Palmer doing the pre-game color, then describing the play-by-play for each game.
Sunday ( Jan 6)
CBS 3 -4pm EST; SPECIAL Meet Your New Senators LIVE from WTOP-TV(Wash), to
the net. § Sustaining, public service. ^ Pkgr CBS Public Affairs (Wash); Prod Ted Ayers, § Walter Cronkite as "anchor man" and eight CBS newsmen meet with eight new U. S, Senators and their families in non -political interviews in the Sheraton Room of the Sheraton Carlton Hotel in Washington, D. C. This is the third successive year that CBS has presented this type of program prior to the convening of Congress.
CBS 4 -5pm EST; DEBUT Odyssey LIVE remote from Virginia City, Nevada, (prem¬ iere only), to the net. Other programs, LIVE & FIIM from various origina¬ tions, to the net. § Sustaining, public service. § Pkgr CBS News & Public Affairs (NY) with the American Assn of Museums; Proa Charles Romine; Assoc ProdsTed Sack, Frank De Felitta; Dir Roger Englander. § Documentary dramatizations of mankind's varied experiences thru the progress of centuries, centering on sub¬ jects found in the world’s museums translated into a dramatic form; drawing from and exploring man's experiences in all the arts and sciences, Charles Collingwood is the regular host and narrator, with special narration by experts in part¬ icular fields that are explored in various programs. The premiere program will show the dramatized life, death and TV rebirth of Virginia City, Nevada, as a frontier city in the days of the Comstock silver lode.
THIS WEEK - REGULAR NETWORK SPECIALS
CBS See It Now (Every 4th Sun, 5 -6pm EST) Jan 6; "Clinton and the Law: A Study in Segregation," a film report on the chain of events which resulted in violence in the small Tennessee community; Prods & Editors Edward R. Murrow, Fred V/. Friend¬ ly; Reporter Arthur Morse; Cameramen Martin Barnett, Leo Rossi; FILM from WCBSTV(NY). Program is now sponsored by Pan American World Airways thru J. Walter Thompson Co (NY).
OTHER NETWORK CHANGES & ADDITIONS
ABC College News Conference (Sun, 4-4 :30pm EST) New title, effective Dec 30, for program formerly called College Press Conference.
Press Conference (Sun, 5:30-6pm EST) New time, effective Dec 30. Program was formerly seen, 8: 30 -9pm EST, Sundays. (The special program, Newsyear 1956, originally scheduled for Sun, 5 •* 30 -6pm EST, Dec 30 only, will be seen at 6:30-9 pm EST. See page 119, Vol 8, No. 52).
CBS See It Now; SPECIAL Dec 30;. Sun, 11 :15pn-12midnight EST; FILM from WCBS-TV(NY), to the net. § Sustaining. § A special report including a filmed interview with Chou En-lai, prime minister of Communist China, by Edward R. Murrow; followed by an examination of the prime minister's comments by a panel of experts on China, with Mr. Murrow as chairman of the discussion.
NBC National Bowling Champions (Sun, 10:30 -11pm EST) Last show Dec 30.
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OTHER NET CHANGES