Variety (July 1958)

Wednesday July 9, 1958 RADIO-TELEVISION CfeKYW CSSS Continued from pace 24 = gram of interviews and reports. The new ordinance, according to Mayor Anthony J. Celebrezze, will further the drive to help keep pur city clean.”.. The change in tire recording pro¬ cedures, doing away with hours of filing and checking by new car dealers and the police auto bureau, came: in another “Viewpoint” show after preliminary work by news¬ men under Sanford Markey. Under city law, new car dealers had to file numbers of new tires as a pro¬ tection against theft; Two major tire companies (US Rubber and Goodyear) after instituting automar tiori eliminated individual numbers, making police crackdown on stolen tires impossible. Following the program. Police Chief Story ruled that car dealers no longer had to submit tire numbers, and that he would seek a state law when the. legislature convenes to reinstitute individual tire numbering: Possible changes in the state auto license law will rest with ree- . ommendations to be made by a committee headed by Alvin Krenz- ler, deputy state auto registrar, named to investigate the license state including recommendations by through KYW, KYW-TV news that plates be mailed to owners as now realized in several states. Ohio policy calls for individual pickup at license bureaus, which KYW maintains is “antiquated, and a loss of time for motorists.” ... Dunton E= Continued from pik't 24 ^ Dunton in 1944 organized all press and radio coverage of the two Que¬ bec Conferences, and set up Ca¬ nadian coverage of the United. Na¬ tions Charter Conference in San Francisco. Under his chairman¬ ship, CBC has expanded its radio facilities and production and. it was during his term that CBC brought television to Canada. . Dunton has repeatedly declared that CBC was ready for color tv When the market became right, also. that subliminal projection would never be allowed on Ca¬ nadian video. Only last week (1), CBC preemed Canada’s first coast- to-coast television web, claiming it’s the longest in the world (6,000 miles). Among newsmen. Royal com¬ mission probers, federal cabinet ministers, others, Dunton was w.k. for his. calm wisdom and diplomacy when" quizzed re the corporation and its activities. His wife was a lawyer, expert in constitutional law. They have two daughters. B5B Continued from pace 24 liam C. MacPhail, sports director for the network, was present for tome time and it appeared a hope¬ less situation until video tape was developed. CBS-TV’s successful use of the tape during the broadcast of the Preakness and Belmont Stakes gave the network something to work on. Effective immediately each race, in addition to being broadcast live will be simulta-? neously taped and telecast imme¬ diately after completion of the “Baseball Game of the Week” if the game should run past the scheduled time. Max Factor, Squirt Boy KTTY Pageant Hollywood, July 8. . KTTV will devote 16 hours of air time to the seventh annual “Miss Universe Beauty Pageant,” beginning July 15 and concluding July 25 in Long Beach. Station will present 11 separate telecasts in 10 days of the event. Max Fac¬ tor and Squirt will co-sponsor. ‘Beaver’s’Switch “Leave It to Beaver” is giving up the Friday-at-8:30 slot on ABC- TV- and is switching bo Thursdays at 7:30 on the same network. Move was okayed by the telefilm’s two bankfoilers, Ralston . arid Miles Labs, Ralston arid Miles, who each have a third of “Beaver” for the fall, were aiming at an audience gain.. from ABC’s “Zorro” at 8. Meantime, ABC has not scheduled an 8:30 Friday replacement for “Beaver.” CONCERT NETWORK’S 3,600,000 FM SETS The Concert Network, composed of FM outlets, WNCN, 51. Y.; WBCN, Bostpn; WHCN, Hartford, arid WXCN, Providence, claims' a potential, audience of more than. 3,600,000 FM sets in the four-state area. ' • ■ - In a report, based on Pulse arid : data from other sources, the inter¬ state FM net claims a quality audi- 1 ence Whose listeners are 51.1% college graduates. . Economically, according to the net’s report, 1 54.2% of its audience earns $7,500 : a year or more Indicative of the rise in interest : in concert music throughout the ' U. S., Lawrence L. Wynn, Concert . Network general manager, cited the growth of classical record sales. The net’s survey • showed , that in 1946; classical records ac¬ counted for 15% of all record sales and in’57 for inore than 40%. ChiWBBM i Continued from page 25 i Dallas — Bob Tripp, formerly head of both WFAA and WFAA-TV news staffs, has been, named direc¬ tor of WFAA-TV’s hews opera¬ tions. . one tv show, “Jazz in the Round,” on WBBM-TV. As of now, it’s all top secret at the stations, aithoug hthe first FM c overtures are due to be made sometime in mid-month. An Un¬ official report Was that the station would: just be. experimenting at first, that it “is not ready yet for any practical stuff.” Eventually, though,. the FM station is headed for: complete re-programming as an entirely separate. entity in the shop, with its own staff and sales department. WBBM, in the past, has never allowed its 1 salesmen to recognize the FM station in dealing with clients. It has never entered the WBBM pitch that any AM time purchased would also have benefit of FM simulcast at no extra, cost. Apparently, the station has played a waiting. game with its FM fre¬ quency, keeping it all but dormant but holding onto it so that no other interests could purchase it. All the FM frequencies on the lUhi band are now spoken for, but j Only one has bad a success thus j.far worthy of trade note. That j would be WFMT, owned by Bemie j Jacobs, which programs with a | fine arts accent. . Station derives • some of its revenue from the sub- I scription sale of its monthly pro- i gram guide but in the last couple ! years has been tapping both local jarid national sponsors for iiripres- : sive buys. Recently, WFMT j wrapped up a five year cross-the- . board deal with Talman Federal /Savings. WNHC-TV’s 10th Anni New Haven, July 8. WNHC-TV (Triangle . Publica¬ tions) Jsmarking its iOth anni With a Series of innovations, major one of which is groundwork now in. progress for a new radio and tv center in connection with New Ha¬ ven’s multi-million dollar urban redevelopment program. ‘Cimarron’ ES5S Continued from page 23 =555 played off in *58-’59, as per agree¬ ment, and not put on the shelf for a season. This is the lone new MCA series which NBC pacted for next season. The fact that the network has com¬ mitted itself- to four thus-far un¬ sold film series, all of which are how obliged to ride through. ’58- *59 is one of the major contribu¬ tory factors in the current distress. These are, in addition to “Cima¬ rron,” the Tuesday 7:30 “Dragnet” skein; “Wagon Train” (only half sold) apd “Northwest Passage.” Denver — KOA-TV and KOA radio will start construction this month on art $800,000 building to house their activities. The. studios and offices will be in a $600,000 building, containing about 30,000 square feet of space. aizine. in America