Variety (February 1951)

Wednesday, February 7, 1951 RADIQ-TELfi VISION 37 TVA Cost of Living Clause Continued from pate 26 ing expenses. Amateurs will not* be permitted to perform more than once a year, and on shows where the winners are brought back they will be allowed their amateur standing only twice in a year. Children under 16 will be able to set their own terms on programs where 75% of the talent is under 16; TVA reserves the right to negotiate the whole matter it the kid programs become a prob- lem. ' • ■ If meal periods are missed, performers get $10. Time between end of lunch and start of dinner must not exceed six hours. Reading sessions are included as part of rehearsal time, but shall not nec- essarily be considered as a re- hearsal day. Cast Credit All thespers with more than five lines shall get cast credit, but not more than 12 credits need be listed on any broadcast. For ex- tension of rehearsal beyond the time provided, if application, is made before actors are hired, time- and-a-half will be paid. After 40 hours of rehearsal, performers will get time-and-a-half. Audition shows which aren't broadcast will be paid for at half^ FM in Trouble Continued from page rate. Warmup performers will be paid at.half the applicable rate. Each rehearsal day is.limited to seven out of eight consecutive hours, except on one camera day when it will be limited to nine out of 11 consecutive hours. Cuffo doubling is limited to two actors on a half-hour show and. three on an hour program. Multiple doubles are permitted on variety shows and other formats with short episodes. Group singers or. dancers will get an additional fee at half the ap- plicable rate for doubling as actors, plus the extra rehearsal pay. Models required to do Special business will get the less-than-five- lines rate. Previews before studio audiences prior to broadcast are considered rehearsal time. A line will consist of not more than JO words. TVA will hot strike as long as the code is adhered to. Kine- scope recordings may be used for reference and private auditions. Kine excerpts of a minute or less may be used as trailers. Live repeat shows will be paid at half-scale if aired within 24 hours, and full scale afterwards. Talent is to be paid by Thursday of the week after, the week of the performance, and a TVA-web com- mittee is to meet on speeding up j ’ payments to actors. How to - - • HollyWood, Feb. 6. “Lonely hearts” has treacled into radio to cheer up the un- dated lovelorn. Having done so well with “Lonesome Gal” to buoy the drooping spirits of the mere male, KHJ is go- ing to pour the syrup for gals in low dudgeon. Soother is Rer.za Gesana, Who will be billed as “The Continental” to brighten the dark corners With advicq on love, life and ro- mance between revolutions of recordings befitting the mood of the moment. Onetime radio packager, Ce- saiia took a trip abroad, looked up his old friend, Robert Ros- selini, and was given a part with Ingrid Bergman in “Stromboli.” Program airs at the lonely hour of 1 i, five nights a week. Blair-TV, Inc,, station represent- ative exclusively handling tele sta- tions, has opened its eighth region- al office, in Jacksonville. It is being managed by Harry E. Cum- mings. Rep has appointed Lindsey Spight, veepee of John Blair, its AM counterpart, to head its San Francisco operation. Blair-TV has separate offices and has been com- pletely severed from the radio operation 1 . Hollywood, Feb. 6. New board of directors is ex^ panding Consolidated Television Productions into a $1,000,000 cor- poration which will shortly embark on production of telefilms for the newspaper-owned television sta- tions which have banded together under the name of Publishers Tele- vision Syndicate. Firm originally was incorporated by N o r man Chandler and J. Bert Easley for $25,000. Chandler has moved into the board chairman’s spot With W. B. Clum, formerly veepee and gen- eral manager of the L. A. Shopping News as president, Harrison Chand- ler veepee and Harrison Dunham as secretary-treasurer. Actual production will get un- der Way with four Series of films, including one group of six for the Protestant Film Commission. Other series are. a dramatic layout, a soap opera program and a juvenile show, “Cyclone Malone” seen on KNBH until recently. CTP Will film it and sell it to NBC’s o&o Vidstations with show going to Publishers Syndicate web in other markets. Pix being made for Prot- estant Film Commission, budgeted at about $40,000 apiece, will be shared for video by PFC and Con- solidated. Carl K. Hittleman has been named exec producer with Fill- more Phipps handling program de- velopment and supervising produc- tion. John R. Markey is taking over national sales syndication and William Wooten has been appoint- ed director of commercial produc- tions. Washington, Feb. 6. WMAL-TV, owned by the Wash- ington Evening Star, moved to its new uptown Television Center last week at 4461 Connecticut avenue, which was formerly the Chevy Chase Ice Palace. Move gives WMAL-TV the largest TV studios in the Capital. In its new Center the station will have three studios, one of which has facilities to seat a large audi- ence. ; 'V • • Star’s radio broadcasting studios in. the Trans-lux building are not affected. selling functional music use spot announcements, usually of a pub- lic service character, for the pri- mary purpose of drowning them out (by means of a supersonic signal at the transmitter) in order to attract subscribers. In one of its letters of inquiry, the Commis- sion cites the promotion literature of a station's “Musicast” service as saying: “Why does the station bother with announcements or commer- cials at all? The main purpose is to keep out ‘free riders’ . . The whole scheme is based on the illu- sion that the customer is person- ally providing background enter- tainment rather than a radio sta- tion or wired music dispenser.” The Commission’s inquiry was directed to WFMF in Chicago iowned by Marshall Field); WLRD in Miami Beach; KDFC in Sausali- to. Calif.; and WACE-FM in Chicopee, Mass. These stations were selected because the agency had information on their services. KDFC has reported to the Commission that it’s only income is from rentals of special receivers for its music service, for which it receives $25 a month for a mini- mum of 12 hours a day, The oilier stations were requested to break down their station revenues, from music services and time sales. The Commission said its inquiry is being made in connection with its “current review of the overall status and operation of FM broad- casting,” The question of Transit Radio, it said, is “anothc* part of the general study.” It is expected that the question of the legality of Transit Radio, which is more concerned .'with con- stitutional issues, will be pursued later. The license of WWDC-FM, which provides TR service in Washington, D. C., was put on tem- porary status sOnie time ago pend- ing a determination Of the legality question. Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief with t lie U. S. Court of Appeals here In support of a local action to reverse a ruling of the U. S. District Court upholding the right of Capital Transit Co. to carry the broad- casts in its busses and trolleys. ACLU contends that “forced lis- tening” violates two amendments of the Constitution. Arguments in the case are to be beard next week. DUE OF A SERIES FE 1 TIMC TBE Efil nil) HIKE IEEE 4 MRS TELEVISION SERVICE 'Tandy is No Action’ on KNBH Hollywood, Feb. 6. After a year and a half of spora- dic sponsorship,- “Lights, Camera, Action’’ is being dropped by KNBH. Demands on station time by NBC bines and lack of client Interest brought do\yn the axe. Station paid $600 to the triple ow nership for program showcasing hew talent but set sc price of nearly $2,000 for overall, cost for under- writing. Walter Woolf King, one °i the owners, emceed.- Show di i summer duty on the cable last year. Four years, Northwestern University (B.S.) Three years, U S/Navy One year, Mars, Incorporated Free & Peters (Chicago Office) since June, 1950 Richard F. Kielik! (Another F&P TELEVISION Specialist) Yes, before joining F & P, Dick was darned near up to his esophagus in candy bars! He was with Mars, Inc. as a Field Sales Supervisor iii charge of a promotional crew calling on whole- sale and retail candy outlets. This taste of promotional work settled it — Dick decided it was his dish for keeps. And once we’d met him, we immediately knew we wanted him to bring his dish to our “table of organization!” Actually Dick’s coming to F & P is typical, of the way most of our well- seasoned TV Colonels got their start. Enthusiastic and ambitious, they came from, all sorts of businesses — news- papers, radio stations, advertising agen- cies, soap companies, insurance firms and Other sales organizations. As a team we tliink you’lt find: us about as versatile, well-informed and sincerely interested in being helpful as any group you’ve ever met. Or maybe more iso! That’s how we operate, here in this pioneer group of radio and television station representatives. EXCLUSIVE NATIONAL TELEVISION REPRESENTATIVES DAVENPORT WOC-TV* . (CenfrarB'roadcoslIng Co.-^ WHO-WGC) • FORT WORTH-DALLAS WRAP-TV* ‘ (STAR-TELEGRAM) LOUISVILLI WAVE-TV* (WAVE, Inc.) MIAMI WTVJ (Wometco Theatres) ' MINNIAPOLIS-ST. 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