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ROSS REPORTS -TELEVISION INDEX
PROGRAMS • ADVERTISERS • TALENT
55 I Fifth Avenue • New York I 7 • MUrray Hill 2-59 1 0 PUBLISHED BY TELEVISION INDEX, INC.
WEEKLY REPORT
JULY 6-12, 1959 VOLUME 11 NUMBER 27
EDITOR: Jerry Lelchter
THIS WEEK - NETWORK DEBUTS & HIGHLIGHTS
Monday (July 6)
POOL 11-11 :30am NYT & LAT, this date only; SPECIAL Queen Elizabeth’s Visit to Chicago LIVE from Chicago to the CBS net, 11 -11 :30am NYT & LAT; TAPE to NBC net, 1-1 :30pm NYT & LAT; TAPE to ABC net, 10:30-llpm NYT. § Telecast of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain's visit to Chicago, in connection with the Royal Tour of the St. Lawrence Seaway area. During the program the Queen will address the American people .
§ Sustaining, all nets.
§ CBS PKGR CBS News; Prods David Zellmer, Harriet Atlass (WBBM-TV); Dirs Chris Erskine; Richard Liesendahl (lake front). NBC PKGR NBC News; Prod Frank Jordan; NBC Reporters Alex Dreier, Sander Vanocur.
CBS 9-9 :30pm NYT & LAT, Weekly; RETURN Frontier Justice FILM; 198 stations
net and delayed. (Replaces The Danny Thomas Show, last show June 29; for the summer). § Melvyn Douglas is host for re-runs of Western anthology dramas orig¬ inally seen on the net as part of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre.
§ SPONSOR General Foods Corp (Post Cereals, Sanka); Post Cereals thru Benton & Bowles, Inc(NY); Acct Exec Bruce Allen; Sanka thru Young & Rubicam, Inc (NY); Acct Exec James Benedict.
§ PKGR Zane Grey Product ions (LA); Film Prod Four Star Films, Inc (LA); ProdEal Hudson; Dirs Various; Writers Various.
CBS 9:30-10pm NYT & LAT, Weekly; RETURN The Joseph Cotten Show FILM; 192 sta¬ tions net and delayed. (Replaces The Ann Sot hern Show, last show June 29; for the summer). § Joseph Cotten is host and star in several anthology dramas among the re-runs of films originally seen over the NBC net as part of On Trial The Joseph Cotten Show.
§ SPONSOR General Foods Corp (instant Maxwell House Coffee) thru Benton & Bowles, Inc (NY); Acct Superv Robert Wallace.
§ PKGR Fordyce Productions thru MCA-TV; Film Prod Fordyce thru Revue Produc¬ tions, Inc (LA); Prod Collier Young; Dirs Various; Writers Don Mankiewicz, Larry Marcus .
Tuesday (July 7)
CBS 10-llpm NYT & LAT, Weekly; DEBUT The Andy Williams Show LIVE from NY; no.
of stations not available. (Replaces The Garry Moore Show, last show June 30, for the summer). § Andy Williams is star and host of the musical -variety show, with top guest stars each week, backed by a dancing group and a singing group and the orchestra under the direction of Jack Kane.
§ SPONSORS 1) Revlon, Inc (All Toiletries) thru C. J. La Roche & Co., Inc (NY); 2) Kellogg Co., Inc (Cereals) thru Leo Burnett Co., Inc (Chi); 3) Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co (Glass Div) thru Batten, Barton, Dur stine & Osborn, Inc (NY).
§ PKGR CBS-TV(NY); Prod Perry Lafferty; Dir Norman Jewison; Assoc Dir Dan Smith; Music Dir Jack Kane; Choral Dir Dick Williams; Art Dir Gary Smith; SetsTed Ralph; Costumes Leslie Renfield; Choreog Peter Gennaro; Assoc Prod Bob Tamplin; Writers Buddy Arnold, John Ayelsworth, Frank Peppiat.
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