Sponsor (Apr-June 1964)

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finned \ contract is automatical!) written and the station avails re vised. "\\ e will ii^c the computei foi tv sales first." savs Miss GibfiOQ (MR serves -s t\ stations I "it will take a little longer to put the com puter into operation foi radio I he critical problem is with television While the salesman searches, the bU) gets stale. e\en more stale with the buyer, and by the time it's acted upon — still more stale And b) that time, the buyer can't alvvavs obtam what we told him was available and we both lose out." "Nowadays," says Miss Gibson, "from request to continuation we can expect a two daj lapse. However, she indicates that with the 1401. the buy could be resolved in a matter of hours. I he 360 computer would process taster than the 1401. but the order would probably not be completed an) more rapidlv because the decision factors would still be present. w ith the 360 model computer. Chicago could interrupt the New i oi k office wnh a problem, the ;''<) could soke it, and the COmput er could go on, picking up wh it left off. it v.m handle more than one thing at a time, whereas the 1401 cannot ( )ni\ a machine can handle the amount ol work to be done today," according to Vverj ( iibson. I ven though the use oi computers is more efficient, the process is not cheap I oi rep lunis m general, the cost ol using a computer might run from (150,000 I*' $250,000 an Dually, depending on the type ol equipment involved, according to II R IBM describes the II R svstem as one ol the most sophisticated Commercial applications. It is budgeted at (250,000 for the first yeai of operation and $200,000 annualIs thereafter. When H-R moves over to the 360, which it plans to do, the firm expects to increase the amount oi equipment without increasing the cost of operation. Frank 1 Pellegrin, president of H-R television, sees the computer ization ol l1 b) puttii into selling I he computer will tree the salesman from | multiplied al an alai the past lev. ( ompul the lationshi| M ( nbs. mi 0 advertisers using television said thai the computei ni.r. bun abOUl the use ot onl) on. ' ntl) the COmpanj is a multi ■use oi the main clients id ncies serve, advertisers ai limes forced to withhold marketing problems from them It tull\ U the computer will require the advertiser to gne more information to the agency, oi the will become a creative aim only.*1 Advertisers as well as have been discussing data proa ing m buying and selling with M R executives. Among the advertisers. P; \ Gamble and General Foods media men have been exposed to Computer system will permit salesmen to spend more time with creative selling, and, at the same time, leave buyers more time to consider rather than calculate A FORWARD STEP BY H-R MACHINE TIME: 60 SECONDS/HUMAN TIME? 1 2il»l«M MfiMl !*pt Mf«Kt M raptst faa Oicaint rtKtr 4 Ultl CiaiM't' firm nmst Ditl 'lies CMtaaaf laa at, «Mk titii utiufi UlpJft IK iijtwi. met tlM Caaarttt jrnrtistr Mtir, iirt tripia, uarcM la fiaiuta spets It I* umwi ttaurtarats •mil pr«lf< m 5SjHi«j« witcti ttvni iatn trta a at fat 78.Tt. uacti lain tarn ctafraaj r? «t itataa I cnjtH t« arret 8 N«c» cat*, r fefca. I T -v\=^ June 29, 1964 41