Sponsor (Oct-Dec 1964)

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key markets, Pan Am effectively reaches high-income families and tourist prospects. An airline is basically a retailer since its primary goal is to sell tickets, Pan Am believes. "With live commercials, copy can be changed at practically the last minute and, at the same time, achieve an effective, hard-sell retail approach," says an executive on the Pan American account at J. Walter Thompson. "Spot tv has been a very successful direction for Pan Am to take. It allows the company to go into its eleven-or-so markets with a maximum of flexibility." (Pan American switched from network to spot tv in 1958 for more efficient concentration in markets where its traffic volume is largest.) Hertz has also had success with spot tv. Today, the scene of the man flying through the air into his Hertz car is familiar to virtually all regular viewers of television. In 1956 (the earliest year spot tv expenditure data is available). Hertz spent $31,480 in the medium. In 1961 the lamount had soared to $1.2 million in spot, $382,000 in network tv. Expenditures in both have continued— and continued to rise. For example, last year Hertz was a par TABLE IV GROSS TV TIME EXPENDITURES YEAR 1963 1962 1961 AIRLINES* $9,406,000 2,982,000 2,433,000 BUS $2,110,000 2,063,000 1,743,000 RAILROAD $1,087,000 835,000 680,000 STEAMSHIP $49,000 TOTALS $12,603,000 5,880,000 4,905,000 * Includes small airlines such as Mohawk and Western, In addition to major lines covered Individually in '62-'63 (complete year) chart. TABLE V CHANGES IN AIRLINES TV AND NEWSPAPER COSTS, 1963 OVER 1962 AIRLINES SPOT TV TWA + 99% Pan Am -1 19 Eastern + 750 United -H1627 Delta -f 42 Northeast -1 882 TOTAL + 253 *Sources Spot: Roraba ugh Newspapers: ANPA NEWSPAPER 10% _ 8 + 4 — 15 + 5 — 56 — 8 TABLE VI TV VIEWING BY AIR-TRAVELING BUSINESSMEN NBC Spot Sales mailed questionnaires to approximately 4000 alr-travelin 9 businessmen to determ ine th eir tv viewing hab ts. Some 522 (13 percent) were completed and returned Some answers are as follows: How many days a week do you usually watch televisior ? 1 Year ly air business trips 1 Days per week Total 10 or more 6 9 3-5 6 or 7 30.4% 22.8% 22.7% 27.3% 3-5 33.7 35.9 43.4 27.3 1 -2 19.9 20.1 24.5 28.4 Seldom 16.0 21.2 9.4 17.0 64.1 percent of all resp ondents watch television th ree or more days per week. And, among heavy trave ers (six or more trips per year), 60.3 percent watch three or more days weekly. Which of these program types do you watch with some regularity? I Yea. ly air business trips ! Type Total 10 or more 6 9 3 5 Daily news programs 68.2% 65.5% 54.9% 73.6% Documentary specials 62.5 57.6 64.7 69.0 News analysis or commentary 53.8 50.3 45.1 60.0 Sports events 51.4 55.9 56.9 56.3 Late night variety or movie 33.6 31.1 27.4 31.0 Interview programs 28.7 25.4 33.3 25.3 During which time periods do you wa tch television— when you are away from home on business trips? Yea riy air business trips Time period Total 27.1% 10 or more 35.8% 6 9 25.0% 3 5 25.6% 7 9 a.m. 7-11 a.m. 58.5 56.0 64.3 55.8 After 1 1 p.m. 35.2 35.8 32.1 39 5 * Source: NBC Spot Sales ' October 26, 1964 39