Sponsor (Jan-Mar 1959)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

Davenport, Iowa — Rock Island, Illinois 47th TV MARKET IN THE U.S As Reported in TELEVISION AGE, May 19, 1958 41 Albany Schenectady-Troy 46 Omaha 42 Nashville 43 Champaign 44 Miami 45 Sacramento-Stockton 47 Davenport-Rock Island 48 Binghamton 49 Raleigh-Durham 50 Asheville WOC-TV IS No. 1 IN COVERAGE IN THIS 47th MARKET 1,727,100 556,500 469,890 97,101 54,912 48 COUNTIES Population* Homes TV Homes Farm Homes** TV Farm Homes** Effective Buying Income* $2,852,363,000 Retail Sales* $2,076,120,000 * Sales Management's "Survey of Buying Power, 1958" **U. S. Census of Agriculture, 1954 Col. B. J. Palmer President Ernest C. Sanders Resident Manager Pax Shaffer Sales Manager NCS 2 BETTENDORF ROCK ISLAND MOLINE EAST MOLINE IOWA WISCONSIN ILLINOIS WOC-TV Davenport, Iowa is part of Central Broadcasting Company which also owns and operates WHO-TV and WHO-Radio — Des Moines. SPONSOR • 3 JANUARY 1959