Sponsor (July-Sept 1959)

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SPON SOR 29 AUGUST 1959 BOARD CHAIRMAN FREDERIC W. ZIV of Ziv Television Programs began as an adman, has built an Ohio-based empire in TV films MEET MR. ZIV * SPONSOR presents the first published profile of a publicity shy Cincimiatiaii SPONSOR • 29 AUGUST 1959 "I CINCINNATI, OHIO talked with them in Terre Haute," said Fred Ziv with a little grin, "and Davenport and Fort Wayne and Huntington, West Virginia. And that's how it all began." The board chairman of Ziv Television Programs Inc., sitting in his big comfortable office at Ziv headquarters on Cincinnati's Madison Road, was reminiscing last week about the depression-ridden '30's and the start of the Ziv enterprise. Make a note of that Terre Haute remark. It is significant and wholly symbolic. For if there is one quality most responsible for sweeping this keen-eyed Ohio businessman to a commanding position in an industry largely dominated by Hollywood and Broadway thinking, it is this willingness to "talk to them in Terre Haute," to hit the road, to ferret out the needs of all kinds and sizes of local, regional and national advertisers, and to sell aggressively in every market. Not that this is the whole story, of course. Ziv's success as the country's biggest producer of syndicated tv film {Highway Patrol. Sea Hunt, 31