State Department of Education; Towards Visual Henry and the Polka Dot Kid, executive producer: its WTVT(TV) Tampa, Fla., violated rules by Learning New York State Education Department and George Heinemann, producer: Linda Gottlieb, direc- running program (said "to depict America Appalachian BOCES Consortium; The Original Rom - tor: Richard Marquand, writer: W W. Lewis (NBC); as having weakened its defense relative to pin' Stompin ; Hot and Heavy Cool and Groovy All Blind Sunday producer: Daniel Wilson, director: Larry the Russians Star Jazz Show, CBS -TV; It Must Be Love 'Cause I Feel Elikann, writers: Arthur Barron, Fred Pressburger ") without announcing that it So Dumb, ABC -TV; Song of Myself CBS -News; (ABC). was furnished by American Security Orangutans: Orphans of the Wild CBS -TV; A Matter Children of Divorce, producer /director /writer: Mike Council. Commission addressed issue of of Ethics, CBS News; Rattlesnakes: Life and Death of Gavin (NBC); Chinatown, executive producer: David whether film was provided "as an induce- a Western Gladiator. Daniel Wilson Productions; Bub- Loxton, producers /directors /writers: John Alpert, Keiko ment" for broadcast even though no mon- ble Gum Digest WMAO -TV Chicago; The Camera and Tsuno, Yoko Maruyama (WNET(TV) New York /PBS); etary consideration was made. the Song Ontario Education Communications Authori- Christmas Around the World, executive producer: or other ty; Come Into My Parlor, Survival Anglia Ltd.: Welfare, Lee Mendelson, producer: Karen Crommie, directors/ Since there was no sponsorship identifica- WNET New York; Let's Hear It for the Patients, WBBM- writers: Lee Mendelson, Karen Crommie (NBC); Come tion- Gaylord said it was editing error - TV Chicago; There's Something We've Been Meaning to into My Parlour, producer: Aubrey Buxton, filmed by FCC said, violation occurred. But since it Tell You, WCVB -TV Needham, Mass.; Industrial John Cooke, John Paling, Peter Parks. Sean Morris, was "isolated incident," FCC's letter said, Cancer: Warning, WCBS -TV New York; That Weird Gerald Thompson. writers: Colin Willock, James T. de "no commission action or sanctions Classical Stuff WPBT(TV) Miami; Carrascolendas, Kay (NBC); Doug Henning's World of Magic, execu- appropriate at KLRN -TV Austin. Tea.; Land Beneath the Sea, Mississip- tive producer: Jerry Goldstein, producer /director: deemed this time." pi Educational Television; The Best Man Doesn't Al- Walter C. Miller, writer: Buzz Kohan (NBC); Dying, French ETV connection. After few years of ways Win, WFSBTV Hartford, Conn.; The Chair. WFSB- executive producer: Michael Ambrosino, producer/ success with Bonjour Sesame, dubbed ver- TV: A Day Without Sunshine WPBT: All Out, Paulisl director: Michael Roemer (WGBH -TV Boston /PBS). sion Television Workshop's Productions. Farewell to Manzanar, executive producer: George of Children's Bicentennial awards -for TV: Suddenly an Eagle, J. Santoro, producer /director: John Korty, writers: Sesame Street; TFI, major French televi- ABC News; The Adams Chronicles -John Adams, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston John sion network, plans to nationalize show. Lawyer, WNET: If You Don't Come In Sunday Don't Korty (NBC); Gypsy in My Soul, executive producer: TFI has scheduled January 1978 start for 1 Come In Monday, WUSF -TV Tampa, Fla.; for radio: This Wiliam O. Harbach, producers: Cy Coleman, Fred Ebb, Rue Sesame, 208 half -hour programs to be I Believe, CBS News; Words, WABC(AM) New York; director: Tony Charmoli, writer: Fred Ebb (CBS); How broadcast daily on alternate weeks, featur- Northwest Chronicles, WCCOIAM) Minneapolis. Green Was My Valley producer: Martin Lisemore, director: Ronald Wilson, writer: Elaine Morgan ing French puppets, real -life characters (BBC/wGBH -TV /PBS): Judge Horton and the Scotts- and locale more familiar to youngsters in Home video game use boro Boys, executive producer: Thomas W. Moore. that country. To continue show's present high in prime time producer: Paul Leaf, director: Fielder Cook, writer: educative success, i Rue Sesame will John McGreevey (NBC); Just an Old Sweet Song, pro- maintain certain Sesame Street elements ducer: Philip Barry, director: Robert Ellis Miller, writer: such as (dubbed) puppet sketches, ani- Arbitron Television reported last week Melvin Van Peebles (CBS); Liza's Pioneer Diary ex- mated cartoons and live- action films. that video game usage in New York and ecutive producer: Barbara Schultz, producer /director/ writer: Nell (KCET /PBS); Orangutans: Orphans of Los Angeles is highest in prime time, Cox Manhattan plans. ABC Inc. will spend $3 the Wild, executive producer: Aubrey Buxton. filmed million to turn old National Guard armory based on measurements for the period of by Dieter Plage, writer: Colin Willock (CBS). on Manhattan's upper West Side into new Jan. 15 -21. Perry Como 's Christmas in Austria, executive pro- The analysis showed that 4% of the New ducer: Bob Banner, producer /director /writer: Stephen television studios. This remodeling was York metered households and 4% of those Pouliot (NBC); The Puzzle Children, producer /writer: spurred by tax abatement from New York in Los Angeles have video games and the Stephen Dick, director: Bill Davis (WOEOITVI Pit- City government. Sources say ABC is wait- tsburgh /PBS); Sills and Burnett at the Met in producer: ing for city's decision on further tax abate- highest usage (47% in New York, 65% Powers, musical writers: Joe Hamilton, director: Dave ment before it decides to build new office Los Angeles) was in the 9 p.m.- midnight Ken Welch, Mitzie Welch, writers: Kenny Solms, Gail period. Arbitron said caution should be Parent (CBS); With All Deliberate Speed, executive building in same neighborhood, which exercised when drawing conclusions from producer: Joel Heller, producer /director: Robert would bring together employes scattered these estimates because of the size of the Markowitz, writers: Bill Badalato, Jan Hartman (CBS). in other buildings and permit ABC to hire sample -16 metered TV households with additional 225 people. video games in New York and 18 in Los Angeles. Programing Briefs Seven households in the sample in each PBS cites gains in city (less than 2% of the total sample in Words for parents. Television Information minority, low- income each case) used the games during the Office has produced 30- second spot featur- measurement period, averaging 118 ing Dr. Louise Bates Ames, president and viewing of public TV minutes per household in New York and co- director of Gesell Institute of Child De- 66 minutes in Los Angeles. velopment, New Haven, Conn., in which "If public television ever has been she advises parents to watch TV with 'elitist,' it's become less so every year." children. In this way, she said, parents can Public Broadcasting Service President Christophers cite share ideas with children and help unlock Larry Grossman made that remark with TV's contributions their feelings. Spot is free to TIO members the release of A.C. Nielsen data said to and may be bought by nonmembers at $25 show that PTV is being viewed in more Twenty -two specials earn per print. minority and lower- income homes than ever before. honors along with CBS -TV's Money matters. Corporation for Public The Nielsen study for October 1976, 'Bicentennial Minutes' Broadcasting board has approved $2,150,- released by PBS, shows a 47.5% in- 000 in programing funds: up to $1 million year Producers, directors and writers of 22 crease over the past in the number in fiscal 1977 funds and $150,000 in fiscal of nonwhite households watching. TV specials were recognized by the 1978 to assist KQED(TV) San Francisco in Furthermore, 4.4 million minority homes Christophers, an ecumenical mass -media production of Over Easy daily magazine were said to have regularly tuned in a organization, as contributing "the high- show aimed at elderly; up to $500,000 public station in October 1976, as op- est values of the human spirit through from fiscal 1977 for wGBH -TV documentary posed to three million a year earlier. In their works." A special award was pres- series and World, $500,000 from fiscal terms of total PTV audience, the percent- ented to CBS -TV for its Bicentennial 1977 for WETA -TV Washington- wNET(rv) age of minority -group households watch- Minutes. New York co- production of - MacNeil ing rose from 8.6% to 11.3%. Awards were presented to ABC News Closeup on Lehrer Report..eport Gathering of board last Gun Control: Pro and Con. producer /director /writer: For families with less than $10,000 per month also saw election of W. Allen Wallis Richard Gerdau, producer /director: James Benjamin, year in income, a 15.4% increase in as new CPB chairman (BROADCASTING, writer: Debra Kram (ABC); Beauty and the Beast ex- households was reported, from 12.1 mil- ecutive producer: Thomas M.C. Johnston, producer: March 14). lion to 14.0 million. Lower- income Hank Moonjean, director: Fielder Cook, writer: Sher- man Yellen (NBC): Belle of Amherst producers: Mike Violation, but no penalty. FCC Complaints homes in October 1976 made up 36% of Merrick, Don Gregory, director: Charles S. Dubin, writ- and Compliance Division Chief William the total PTV audience, compared to er: William Luce (WCET(TVI Los Angeles /PBS), Big Ray has told Gaylord Broadcasting Co. that 34.8% a year earlier, the report said.

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