Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)

Record Details:

Title:
Weekly television digest
Date:
Jan-Dec 1960
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)
Leaf #:
000629
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television -- Periodicals, Television 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:
March 28, 2024
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WEEKLY JUNE 27, 1960 Television Digest I960 TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC. ^iUW 2 7 VOL. 16: No. 26 /\MR r 1RR4RV The authoritative service for executives eng^aged in all branches of the television arts & industries SUMMARY-INDEX OF WEEK'S NEWS Congress PAYOLA BILL NEARS HOUSE VOTE after Rep. Harris (D-Ark.) charges publishing-broadcasting "conspiracies” are out to stop it. FCC Comr. Lee confirmed (pp. 1, 11 & 12). Auxiliary Services HARTFORD PAY-TV TEST application filed by Zenith & RKO General, which say they hope to get started on WHCT early in 1961 with 2,000 initial subscribers (p. 2). CATV STANDS FIRM on "no govt, controls," NCTA members voting unanimously to oppose legislation. Full-time top executive to be appointed. Pay-TV pitches heard (pp. 3 & 4). FCC STUDIES NEW UHF ANTENNA said to offer high gain and broad band, inexpensively, for transm.ission & reception. Described to engineers by subcontractor to major companies (p. 8). rilm Tape AND NOW THE ACTORS. Annoyed with lack of progress in Alliance-AMPP talks. Screen Actors Guild board may seek strike authority against producers just recovering from writers' strike. WGA and networks reach agreement (pp. 3 & 14). Programming FILM ANIMATION IS ENJOYING A BOOM as producers launch new animated packages, networks open time slots to animation, and advertisers develop new uses for it in commercials. An exclusive report (p. 6). rcc MIAMI — CH. 7 "INFLUENCE" CASE closed in Philadelphia where FCC's special examiner Judge Horace Stern says he will file decision by Sept. 15 (p. 8). Consumer Electronics TV ENTERS SEMICONDUCTOR AGE, as engineers discuss use of transistors & tunnel diodes to increase reliability of non-portable sets. "Flat tube" progress (pp. 17 & 20). MANUFACTURERS SELL EACH OTHER at summer mart, lacking dealer customers. Fine-furniture trend evident; replacement sales seen as TV safeguard against hard-goods slump (pp. 18 & 21). MORE NEW LINES: Olympic shows TV line with 50 basic models, including color combination & console. Symphonic’s 7-set TV line priced from $179.95 to $600 (p. 21). ETV GOVT. PAYS $4 MILLION FOR ETV and other audio-visual research projects under National Defense Education Act. New projects will cost $600,000 more (p. 10). Networks CONVENTION COVERAGE by the networks will require 1,000 newsmen, commentators, & technicians, 90 TV cameras and 8 mobile units (p. 13). Advertising LOCAL RETAILER ADVERTISING on TV will reach $1.5 billion by 1970, predicts TvB (p. 13). SHELL, LEADING SPOT-TV-USER AMONG OIL FIRMS, switches its big account from J. Walter Thompson to Ogilvy, Benson & Mather (p. 14). NETWORK & SPOT TV both show gains in April for month ago, year ago, and cumulative-year ago (p. 14). Other Departments FOREIGN (p. 5). STATIONS (p. 9). PERSONALS (p. 16). FINANCE (p. 23). PAYOLA BILL NEARS HOUSE VOTE; House Commerce Committee's sweeping broadcastingreform bill against payola & other much-censured practices (Vol. 16:25 p4) was close to vote June 24, at end of week marked by Congressional breakouts on related TV-radio fronts. While House headed for action on TV-radio-FCC measure (S-1898) in drive for July adjournment: (1) FCC Comr. Lee slid home with 64-19 Senate confirmation for another 7-year term (see p. 11) after being held up for weeks by political byplay. (2) House approved amended versions of Senate-passed bills permitting members of regulatory agencies to keep their jobs until successors are confirmed (S-1965) and legitimizing boosters (S-1886), sent them back to Senate for almost certain concurrence. (3) Senate okayed independent offices appropriation bill (HR-11776), carrying $2 million for FCC's N.Y. uhf project and $200,000 for FCC "watchdog" operation (Vol. 16:25 p20), sent measure back to House. (4) House Commerce Committee, in extra legislative push, whipped up still another bill — catch-all (HR12731) amalgamating long-pending proposals against backstage influences on agencies. House got set for vote — probably June 27 — on omnibus broadcasting bill, following emotion-charged speech by Commerce Chmn. Harris (D-Ark.) pleading for quick passage. He took up half of 3-hour debate time warning colleagues of publishing-broadcasting "conspiracies" which he said were designed to block it (see