Sponsor (Oct-Dec 1960)

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BALANCED PROGRAM MEANS LISTENER LOYALTY . . . and 30 years of KTRH programming has developed a pattern of listener loyalty blanketing over 80 counties, serving over 1,087,100 radio households and extending over 60,000 square miles. Comprehensive news reporting, tasteful music, sports, farm information and variety give KTRH the popular balanced programming that benefits over four million people. KTRH 50,000 WATTS -740 KC -CBSHOUSTON, TEXAS © Vol. 14, No. 44 • 31 OCTOBER I960 SPONSOF THE WEEKLY MAGAZINE TV/RADIO ADVERTISERS USI DIGEST OF ARTICLES Will spot radio hit $200 million? 27 SRA says "yes," some reps say "maybe." All are more concerned t the concentration of ads in top markets, tv-oriented spot radio buyi What air buyers say about merchandising 30 Timebuyers indicate in the seventh NBC Spot Sales opinion panel tl station merchandising is on the upswing in radio, on the decline in How radio rebuilt 'N. Y. Times' image 33 Colorful copy is helping erase idea that newspaper is ponderous to rejj Saturation radio helped raise weekday circulation 17% in four years' tii) Bob Mohr put Timex on top 35 Revolutionary7 watch merchandising concept of placing Timex in dru tobacco, and novelty chains was largely Robert Mohr's innovate FARM RADIO AND TV, I960 37 sponsor's 9th annual summary of trends and highlights in farm rad and television summarizes how media work with marketing in new sellii concepts. Included in this section are reports from farm advertise as well as new farm market data from the 1959 Census of Agricultui 38 Farm sponsors and markets 40 NATRFD sparks major changes 41 Why International Harvester uses rad 0 42 Why MasseyFerguson uses network tv 44 Farm market basics from th e Census FEATURES 56 Film-Scope 58 Sponsor Hears 24 49th and Madison 19 Sponsor-Scope 64 News & Idea Wrap-Up 6 Newsmaker of the Week 64 Picture Wrap-Up 78 51 78 15 Sponsor Speaks Spot Buys Ten-Second Spots Timebuyers at Work 76 Seller's Viewpoint 75 Tv and Radio Newsmaker 48 Sponsor Asks 52 Tv Results 1 2 Sponsor Backstage 55 Washington Week Baa Hill 8-2772 Chicago Office: 612 N. Michigan Ave. Phone: Superior 7-9863. lirminfiiJ Office: 3617 8th Ave. South. Phone: FAirfax 2-6528. Los Angeles Office: 6087 Suns«.Boulevard. Fhone: Hollywood 4-8089 Printing Office: 3110 Elm Ave., Baltimore 11, MtJ Subscriptions: U. S. $8 a year. Canada b other Western Hemisphere Countries S9 ■ year. Other Foreign countries $11 per year. Single copies 40c. Printed in U.S.A. Adorr all correspondence to 40 E. 49th St., N. Y. 17, N. Y. MUrray Hill 8-2772. Published mHtM by SPONSOR Publicatio i inc. 2nd class postage paid at Baltimore, Md. ©1960 Sponsor Publications Inc. SPONSOR • 31 OCTOBER 1"6|