Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1959)

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Record Details:

Title:
Television digest with electronics reports
Date:
Jan-Dec 1959
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1959)
Leaf #:
000896
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television broadcasting -- Periodicals, Television -- United States -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals.
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A weekly digest of brief reports tracking recent developments in the U.S. television marketplace. Published out of Washington, D.C. with much more focus on the retail of TV sets than the other D.C.-based trade paper, BROADCASTING. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
September 05, 2024
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8 OCTOBER 19, 1959 agencies manage to sell at the network level about one out of every 4 pilots delivered, as against the all-industry average of about one out of 10 pilots. * * >!< These profiles of the principal talent agencies are as accurate as considerable cross-checking can make them. Official agency lists of clients are closely guarded secrets. We have compiled these lists of shows and performers active in TV this season. The name of the production company follows (in parentheses) the name of the series. William Morris Agency: 1740 Broadway, N.Y, 19; 151 El Camino, Beverly Hills. 'I'V series and series talent: On ABC-TV — Adventures in Paradise (TCF-TV) ; Black Saddle (Four Star) ; John Gunther’s High Hoad (Blue J. Productions) ; 'I'he Heal McCoys (BrennanWestgate) , Waiter Brennan; 'I'he Ritieman (Four Star) ; 'I'he Detectives (Four Star), Robert Taylor, Lee P’arr ; Wyatt Harp (Earp Enterprises), Hugh O'Brian. On CBS-TV — DuPont Show (Four Star), June Allyson: Hennesey (The Hennesey Co.), Jackie Cooper; 'I’he Garry Moore Show (Red Wing Productions and Bob Banner Associates), Garry Moore; 'I’he Betty Hutton Show (Hutton Productions), Betty Hutton ; Johnny Hingo (Four Star), Don Durant, Karen Sharpe; The Big Party by Revlon (Goodman Ace) ; Ann Sothern Show (Desilu), Ann Sothern ; Danny 'Thomas Show (Marterto Enterprises), Danny Thomas; Wanted: Dead or Alive (Four Star), Steve McOueen ; Zane Grey 'Theatre (Four Star), Dick Powell. On NBC-TV — Five Fingers (TCF-TV) ; Law of the Plainsman (Four Star), Michael Ansara ; Love & Marriage (Lou Edelman), Stubby Kaye; Richard Diamond (Four Star), David Janssen; Wichita 'Town (Mirisch-McCrea) , Joel McCrea ; Pou Bet Your Life (Filmcraft), Groucho Marx; Loretta Young Show (Toreto Films), Loretta Young. Morris-represented talent starring in specials or regular series: Nick Adams, Morey Amsterdam, James Arness, Pearl Bailey, Tallulah Bankhead, Ralph Bellamy, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Vivian Blaine, Ray Bolger, Eddie Bracken, Barbara Britton, Edd Byrnes, Abe Burrows, Rory Calhoun, Kitty Carlisle, Hoagy Carmichael, Pat Carroll, Peggy Cass, Imogene Coca, Myron Cohen, Claudette Colbert, Bud Collyer, Jackie Cooper, Greer Garson. Vic Damone, Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Desmond, Marlene Dietrich, Andrew Duggan, Jimmy Durante, Rhonda Fleming, Steve Forrest, Mona Freeman, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dave Garroway, Benny Goodman, Farley Granger, Buddy Hackett, Julie Harris, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Eddie Hodges, Celeste Holm, Sally Ann Howes, Mahalia Jackson, Kitty Kallen. Betty Lou Keim, Lisa Kirk, Eartha Kitt, Michael Landon. Peter Lawford, Carol Lawrence, Peggy Lee, Sheldon Leonard, Sam Levenson, Joe E. Lewis, Bambi Lynn, Marie McDonald, McGuire Sisters, Jayne Meadows, Sal Mineo, Carlos Montoya, Patrice Munsel, George Nader, Johnny Nash, Barbara Nichols, Janis Paige, Neva Paterson, Dick Powell, Jane Powell, Elvis Presley, Johnny Puleo, Martha Raye, Carl Reiner, Pernell Roberts, Rowan & Martin, Mort Sahl, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Barbara Stanwyck, Gale Storm, Rise Stevens, Pat Suzuki, Sophie Tucker, Miyoshi Umeki, Senor Wences, Mae West, Esther Williams, Walter Winchell, Natalie Wood. Music Corp. of America: 598 Madison Ave., N.Y. 22; 9370 Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills. Shows producea directly by MCA subsidiary Revue Productions : On ABC-TV — None. On CBS-TV — GE Theatre, Ronald Reagan. On NBC-TV — Laramie ; Staccato ; Wagon Train, Ward Bond. TV series and series talent represented or co-produced by MCA subsidiary MCA Artists Ltd. : On ABC-TV — Hobby Lobby (Don Fedderson) ; The Rebel (GoodsonTodman) ; Leave It To Beaver ((jomalco) ; Take A Good Look (IMPA). On CBS-TV — Jack Benny Program (J & M Productions) ; George Gobel Show (Gomalco) ; The Millionaire (Tido Inc.) ; Ed Sullivan Show (CBS-TV): Markham (Markham Productions), Ray Milland ; Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Shamley Productions). On NBC-TV — Bachelor Father (Bachelor Productions), John Forsythe; The Deputy (Top Gun Productions), Henry Fonda; Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (Bethford), Ernie Ford; It Could Be You (Ralph Edwards Productions) ; Startime (Hubbell Robinson Productions) ; Tales of Wells Fargo (Overland Productions), Dale Robertson; M-Squad (Alabama Productions) ; Riverboot (NBC-TV). MCA-represented talent starring in specials or regular series : Edie Adams, Morey Amsterdam, Harry Belafonte, Edgar Bergen, Polly Bergen, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Bickford, Victor Borge, Spring Byington, Jack Carson, Rosemary Clooney, Joseph Gotten, Robert Cummings, William Demarest, George DeWitt, Betty Furness, Peggy Ann Garner, Ben Gazzara, Lome Greene, Ty Hardin, Dwayne Hickman, Earl Holliman, Kurt Kasnar, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Lawrence, Viveca Lindfors, Danny Kaye. Shirley MacLaine, Gordon MacRae, Elaine Malbin, Patty McCormack, Ethel Merman, Gary Merrill, Jane Morgan, Jaye P. Morgan, Roger Moore, Kathleen Nesbitt, Dennis O’Keefe, Jack Paar, Betsy Palmer, John Payne, Nehemiah Persoff, Marguerite Piazza, Donna Reed, Mark Richman, Rosalind Russell, Tommy Sands, Everett Sloane, Maureen Stapleton, Dean Stockwell, Rip Torn. Ashley-Steiner Inc.: 579 Fifth Ave., N.Y. 17; 449 S. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills. On ABC-TV — Jubilee U.S.A, (Crossroads). Talent: Keenan Wynn. Frank Cooper Assoc.: 9145 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood 46; 17 E. 54th St., N.Y. On CBS-TV— The Lineup (CBS-TV). Talent: Richard Long, William Lundigan. General Artists Corp.: 640 Fifth Ave., N.Y. 19; 9650 Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills. Lor, Patti Paige. On ABC-'TV — Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (Cooga Mooga). On CBS-TV— Many Loves of Dobie GiUis (TCF-TV). On NBC-TV— Perry Com&s Kraft Music Hall (Roncom), Perry Como. Talent: Frankie Laine, Julius La Rosa, Johnny Ray, Peggy Lee, Monica Lewis, Denise Other agencies representing TV talent, but not scheduled series : Baum-Newborn Agency — Gene Barry, Robert Young. Famous Artists Associates — Jacqueline Beer, Rory Calhoun, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Faylen, Brett Halsey, David Hedison, Tab Hunter, Will Hutchins, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Kinsolving, Darren McGavin, Audrey Meadows, John Smith, Clint Walker, Tuesday Weld. Kurt Frings — Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Jane Wyatt. Milton Grossman — Amanda Blake, Richard Boone, June Lockhart, Leslie Neilsen, Dennis Weaver. Kumin-Olenick — -Lola Albright, Robert Rockwell, Craig Stevens, Bob Sweeney. The Mishkin Agency — Chuck Connors, Lee Marvin. Lester Salkow — Warner Anderson, Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale. William Shiffrin Agency — Bob Mathias, Robert Stack. Louis Shurr — Phil Carey, Marge & Gower Champion. Clint Eastwood, Bob Hope, Debbie Reynolds, Jeff York. Paul Small Artists — John Cassavetes, Abby Dalton, Gigi Perreau, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ABC’s Fast Start: First of the new “quick Nielsen” reports this season on the 3-way-competitive TV markets (Vol. 15:41 p8) brought a joyful whoop from ABC-TV last week. For the week ending Oct. 4, in 24 markets during the choice TV hours of 7:30-10:30 p.m., the average-audience TV figures in the Nielsen report looked like this: ABC — 18.8; CBS— 19.7; NBC— 16.7. What caused ABC executives from pres. Oliver Treyz down to break out the festive bunting was that the figures put ABC-TV in second place in network rankings in the competitive markets with a gain of 11% over a year ago (17.0) — showing losses of 12% for CBS-TV (do-wn from 22.4) and 10% for NBC-TV (down from 18.5). “The shift won’t be quite as pronounced in the national ratings for the same period, since we’re not fully competitive with NBC and CBS in terms of station lineups,” one ABC-TV research official conceded. From NBC, which officially has rule against handing out ratings to the press and which had almost all of its new shows on the air when the Nielsen measurements were made: No official comment. Most likely candidate for number 2 man in TV Information Office is Stockton Helffrich, dir. of TV-radio continuity acceptance for NBC. An NBC spokesman admitted that Helffrich is “being sought for the job” by TIO and is “seriously considering” the offer. Said Hausman: “No comment. All I know is what I read in the newspapers.” NETWORK SALES ACTIVITY ABC-TV Gale Storm Show, Thurs., 7:30-8 p.m., one-third sponsorship for 4 wks. Br'istol-Myers (Young & Rubicam) Daytime programming, 26 fifteen-min. segs. over 28 wks. in 3 shows. Minute Maid Corp. (Dancer-FitzgeraldSample) CBS-TV Markham, Sat., 10:30-11 p.m., alt.-wk. sponsorship. Liggett & Myers for Duke cigarets (McCann-Erickson) NBC-TV Price Is Right, Wed. 8:30-9 p.m., Dec. 9 & 16. Lanvin (North Adv.) Pre-Christmas special based on “The 13th Orphan,” by Paul Gallico, Dec. 9, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co. (Victor A. Bennett)