Variety (March 1962)

Wednesday, March 7, 1962 VARIETY RADI@-TELEVISION 41 Made Shows On. Grampian TY’s Sked Malaya Projecting, TV By End of ’62) snus Siti cial ty company serving the north Kuala Lumpur, March 6. : of Scotland, which has done little The Federation af Malaya hopes | in Jocal production since its launchte have ty by next year, empha ing Sept. 30 last year, is now spurAbdul Rahman in the House of duced shows. Representatives here. “Come to the Ceilidh,” Mondays Government has appointed a at 10:35 pm., is a native layout committee to investigate the pos-| With Scot country dance and song, sibility.. The committee has sub “Scotland for Me,” a Friday night . interview program, is focussing on mitted a report te the Government which report has been accepted. leading Scots, such as Lord Boothby, Sir John Ure-Primrose, and The P.M.’s assurance of tv in Bric | anklater, dramatist and Malaya before 1963 was followed y “ later by’ a statement, also in the Noth discussion qeanel Points kame House, by the Assistant; NOC, Om inursdays. ranges over Minist f "th Interior. Inche problems of local and national inTemail bin Vusof ta the effect terest. In addition, the station is that the pilot television scheme was expected to operate before mounting programs of rural and women’s interest, as well as local mext yearend. Inche Ismail introduced the estimates for the golf lessons. Ministry of Information and} Broadcasting totalling altogether $4,500,000 ($13,400,000 Malayan}. { Earlier the Federal Treasury | had been asked to sanction an-| ether $84,000 ($250,000 Malayan) } to equip the proposed $570,000 ($1,700,000 Malayan). Film Unit atudios with ty and other facilities. } Money was needed for an extra| eutting room and additional laboratory space for processing television films and a larger pre| view theatre and trafning.space. | Work on the eight-acre site at Petaling Jaya, six miles from here, |. will begin shortly. Meanwhile, according to a Radio Singapore’s spokesman, Singapore and the Federation will take steps | to unify tv data and standards in | the two countries so that when tv} comes. to both places, the exchange ef programs can he _ further facilitated. (Singapore expects to . Ket its ty project started by O¢to-. ber this year, as the Minister for Culture, S. Rajaratnam told the. Jegislative Assembly earlier this year.) Such standardization will enable audiences in both territories | to tune to the two services with the same typve of receivers. It! Jooks like the C.C.I.R. (Inter-| national Consulative Committee [ eon Radio) 625-line system will be used both here and in Singapore. | Mankiewicz Script For Commie Documentary CBS. Films’ venture in outside documentary production, under the wing of production v.p. Robert} Lewine, is moving closer to a deal. Lewine reports that the Don Mankiewicz script on communism from Marx to the present-day, being done for the U.S. Defense De-/ partment, has been finished and is being submitted for a Defense Department okay. It’s hoped that editmg on historical and current footage will begin April 15. SubJect will run 45 minutes in length to accommodate 16m projectors throughout the world, many of which can only handle 1,600 feet of film, as opposed to 2,000 feet for an hour film. ABC-TV’s New Sales. Three more advertisers ,have bought into various shows on the ABC-TV schedule for next season. International Latex, through Reach, @ficClinton & Co., picked up minutes in “Ben Casey," “Hawaiian Eye,” “Lawman” and “Surfside Six.” Polaroid, through Doyle, Dane, Bernbach, is coming to “Leave It To Beaver” and “The Hathaways.” Speidel, through McCann-Marschalk, is coming into “Ben Casey,” “Hawaiian Eye” and “77 Sunset Strip.” Meantime, Menneén Co. is Iaunchjng a major summertime campaign en ABC-TV, involving time on “Ben Casey,” “Cheyenne,” ‘“Hawaiian Eye,” “Lawman,” “Target” and “The Carruptors.” Grey Adyvertising placed the business. Winnipeg—Channel Seven Television Ltd. operating CJAY-TYV, announced the appointment of Stewart MacPherson as special events director and James S. Purvis as program director. MacPherson is host of the CTV Network show “Twenty Questions” and a w.k. radio and tv personality, with many | ears broadeast experience in Emgand and the U.S. , ‘ British TV Strike fact that the ITA letter referred the reader to a letter from ITCA head James Coltart published in 2 national daily newsheet while it omitted to indicate that Equity had replied in the following morning’s edition of the same paper. Apart from the protesting letters, Equity and the contractors are still meeting on reasonably good terms, says one source, although it is too early to say whether a settlement is in sight. On the program front, Television Audience Measurements Ltd. reports that the slight swing away from the indie web noted over the last five months has been stayed and, in fact, the commercial outlets are beginning to regain some of the Jost ground. Fact renders the actors’ layoff (now entering its fifth month) virtually ineffectual at this point, as Ges: ee £ or > Ba oe £2 ae AO OS A OE SRR a RS ete i ey ie a LC Ke eC ase ate p Lo, ILI ei aes ve Deintermixture, All-Channel Bills Face D.C. Block: Minow Compromises Washington, March 6. Despite hints by FCC chief Newton Minow at a possible moratorium on the Commission’s deintermixture policy if Congress would approve ali-channel receiver legislation, odds in fayor such a bill do not appear favorable for this session. Minow indicated willingness to accept a five to seven-year delay on deintermixture in his testimony before the House Com merce Committee today (Tues. and flatly stated that the FCC will not pursue deintermixture in cases where viewers would be threatened with a loss of service. ° Despite Minow's willingness to compromise, committee chairman Rep. Oren Harris (D., Ark.) left the impression that there were too many barriers in the way of the all-channel or deintermixture legislation this year. Harris, hewever, conceded that these questions hold “the key to the future of television in this country. Heavy opposition to the all-channel receiver push was previously indicated at the Senate hearings two weeks ago. Before the House committee, lawmakers from areas that would be losing VHF assignments in favor of U channels squawked bitteriy at FCC's “recklessness” and “harassment.” Cities involved in the deinterMaison proposals are Hartford, dison, Wis.; Columbia, S.C.; Binghamton, N.Y.; Erie Pa.; Rockford, Ill; Champagne-Urbana, Ill; and Springfield. 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