Program notes Productions Inc., Hollywood, pilot went before the video -tapers of KTLA (TV) Next fall NBC -TV will initiate a half - Los Angeles Monday (April 13). The hour situation comedy series with a Tin taped program heralds The Happy Pan Alley focal point. The cast of the Time, a half -hour series featuring show is headed by William Demarest, Claude Dauphin in the role he played who plays a widowed veteran music on Broadway. June Vincent and Mischa publisher perplexed by rock -and -roll. Auer also are in the cast. KTLA has Musical comedy star Stubby Kaye and bought its third video recorder for the tv -radio singer Kay Armen are among series. the supporting cast. The first 13 episodes were directed by Bob Sweeney. P.J. Walt Disney Productions has bought Wolfson is the producer. The series Golden Oak Rancho, Calif., said to be packager is Louis F. Edelman. the site of the first recorded gold strike in 1843. The 315 -acre property cost ABC Films, N.Y., has sold The Ad- Disney $300,000. It will be used for ventures of Jim Bowie to WAVY -TV movie locations and as a horse ranch. Norfolk, WBNS -TV Columbus, WESH- TV Daytona Beach, WKJG -TV Fort Ziv Television Programs, N.Y., re- 'Golden bow' Benny Radio - Wayne, KLIX -TV Twin Falls, WPSD- ports that its Sea Hunt series has been tv personality Jack Benny (1) and TV Paducah, Ky., and WLOS -TV Ashe- renewed in 167 out of 186 markets Herman D. Kenin, president of ville, N.C. The company also reports which have been carrying the initial the American Federation of Mu- the sale of One Step Beyond half -hour year of the programming. Second year sicians, inspect a "golden bow" series in Australia to TCN Sydney. sponsors include the Kroger stores for presented to Mr. Benny by the The 90- minute closed-circuit telecast Cincinnati and Memphis; Savannah federation in . Mr. in honor of former President Harry Sugar Refining in Atlanta; Sun Oil in Albany and New York City and Stand- Benny was honored for the many Truman's 75th birthday May 8 will be concerts in which the entertainer narrated by actor Melvyn Douglas. ard Oil of in a multi- market spread in seven has appeared for the benefit of Originating at a $100 -a-plate Demo- western states. musicians' pension funds. cratic dinner at New York's Waldorf - KPIX (TV) San Francisco will tele- Astoria Hotel, the program is to be pro- cast Friday (April 24) Lung Cancer: duced by the Group Communications Surgery & Radiation (10 p.m. EST) , a AFL Film Council says Div., TelePrompTer Corp. Those at- 90-minute live program that will in- tending locally- arranged simultaneous clude a surgical operation on lung can- will label all foreign films dinners throughout the country cer and a discussion by specialists on The Hollywood (Calif.) AFL Film make up the audience. Among other the causes and treatment of the malig- Council has adopted a resolution to ask show business people expected to ap- nancy. The program will be presented Congress to "require that all motion pear are comedian Jack Benny and com- in cooperation with the San Francisco pictures and television films made in poser- conductor Leonard Bernstein. Medical Society. Surgery is from the fpreign countries and exhibited in the WGN -TV will carry a series of 26 Stanford Lane Hospital. KPIX Program U.S. be plainly labeled in the main weekly telecasts of Symphony Manager, Ray Hubbard, is executive screen title with the country of origin, Orchestra starting Oct. 18. Concerts producer; Fred Joslyn, public affairs - in order that the American public no will be slotted in a Sunday evening one - education director is director-co-pro - longer be hoodwinked by American hour period. The symphony first ap- ducer; Larry Williams, KPIX writer - `runaway' producers." peared on tv in 1951 and ran through producer is writing and co- producing, The union film council's resolution 1958, with a series of seven monthly and Al Keys is engineering supervisor. also suggests that "the national AFL - musical spectaculars highlighting the CIO convention be asked to implement 1957 -58 season. WMAL -TV has been given an "extra- its action taken in previous years, con- ordinary citation of merit" by the Na- demning `runaway' foreign production As preparation for National Mental tional Religious Publicity Council. It is of pictures by American producers, Health Week (April 26 -May 2), West- the first NRPC award to a tv station. It and specifically to support a consumer inghouse Broadcasting Co. has reissued cited The Life and Teaching of Jesus, boycott of such pictures." a series of songs it commissioned and series for college credit, presented in produced for the occasion four years cooperation with American U. and the News spots increased ago. Written by Hy Zarat and Lou local Council of Churches. Singer, the songs won the National International Transmissions Inc., Assn. for Mental Health Bell Award in The Florida Educational Television New York, which provides voiced news 1956. WBC plans to run the songs over Commission has voted to ask the legis- from abroad now offers five one- its radio -tv stations and will make them lature for $375,000 to produce and minute news spots per day on a Mon - available to stations everywhere. video -tape 12 junior college and uni- day-through- Friday basis. In the past, versity -level courses for use in Florida the same number of spots were pro- KNXT (TV) Los Angeles newsman institutions during the 1959 -60 and vided three times a week. Sumner Glim- Ed Fleming and cameraman Fred Die - 1960 -61 school years. Production of the cher, president, also reported that the terich are in the Orient making a three - courses, including instructors' salaries, company has entered into an arrange- week study of events there. They are will cost about $100,000, the etv corn - ment with WTOP Washington to sup- visiting Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Pan - mission said. Two video -tape machines ply Washington news to International munjon and Honolulu. Material ob- and tape will cost $275,000. Transmission clients (five one -minute tained will be made into three half - news inserts five times a week). The hour news presentations. WEMP and WISN -TV, both Mil- company now has 12 station clients, waukee, were awarded the Pabst and Mr. Glimcher said. The first major Paramount Television Blatz news coverage awards, respec-

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