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482 LES BROWN'S ZINBERG, MICHAEL-producer-director for MTM Pro- nessee, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Missouri, Iowa, Min- ductions who in June 1979 joined NBC-TV as v.p. of com- nesota, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, N. edy development on the West Coast. In his eight years with Dakota, S. Dakota, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, MTM, Zinberg was executive producer of The Bob Newhart Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon, Wash- Show and at various times a director and writer of episodes for ington, California, Alaska, Hawaii and parts of Maine, New The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, The Tony Randall Show and Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Virginia, W. Virginia, Phyllis. Before MTM, he worked for a time with Talent Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Michigan, Associates and with James Garner's company, Cherokee Pro- Wisconsin and Texas. ductions. In Zone III, the separation is 220 miles for stations on the same VHF channel and 205 for those on UHF. This zone includes Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, ZIV, FREDERICK W.-founder of the largest and most Mississippi and Texas. See also "Freeze" of 1948. potent syndication company in the history of television, Ziv Television Programs, the leading programming force out- side the networks during the 50s. Ziv-TV produced and "ZOO GANG, THE"-miniseries by ATV of London, distributed telefilms for local station use-chiefly for 7:30 based on Paul Gallico's best-selling book about members of a and 10:30 P.M., before those half-hours were claimed by the Resistance group who worked underground against the networks-releasing them at the rate of one every two or Nazis in France and meet thirty years later. Stars were Brian three months. Among its big hits were Highway Patrol, Sea Keith, John Mills, Lilli Palmer, Barry Morse, Michael Pe- Hunt and Whirlybirds, shows that eventually brought the trovitch and Seretta Wilson, with music by Paul McCartney. networks into the action -adventure field. Employing scores NBC carried the 6 -part series during the summer of 1975. of salesmen around the country, Ziv-TV turned out to be the Harvard Business School of television syndication, since most of its staff went on to form companies of their own or to "ZOOM"-public TV series of weekly half-hour programs take executive positions with a host of syndication com- panies that sprang up in the late 50s and 60s. designed to capture the whimsy and humor of children in the 6-12 age group and to encourage the active participation of Ziv built his colossus from what had been a transcription young viewers. A magazine of skits, songs, dances, jokes company, World Broadcasting System, which he acquired and puzzles was presented by a resident cast of seven non- from Decca Records in August 1948 for $1.5 million. Before professional children from material submitted by viewers. long, he split the company into two divisions, one selling The cast was changed every 26 weeks. firstrun programs, the other off -network reruns. In 1959 Ziv Originating on WGBH Boston, and produced initially sold 80% of the company to Wall Street investment firms for by Christopher Sarson, the show premiered on PBS in Janu- $14 million. A year later the entire company went to United Artists for approximately $20 million and took the new ary 1972, went off for lack of funding after three years and was revived in 1976. name of Ziv-UA Television. John L. Sinn, who had been president of Ziv-TV, became president of United Artists TV. But as the conditions of the market changed, the company in 1962 gave up first run production and concentrated on "ZOO PARADE" -early children's series on NBC selling movies and reruns. With the sale to U. A. , Ziv retired (1950-57) involving visits with animals behind the scenes at to reside in his native Cincinnati. Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. The long -running show fea- tured Marlin Perkins, the zoo's director, and newsman Jim Hurlbut, who asked the layman's questions. The shows ZONES-three geographical areas designated by the FCC included travel film to Amazon jungles and snake farms. The in its 1952 frequency allocation plan, each with a separate set series began as a local Chicago program in 1949 and went on of requirements for mileage separation and antenna height. the network the following year. Zone I embraces Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connect- icut, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Dis- trict of Columbia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and parts of New "ZORRO" -briefly popular ABC adventure series Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Virginia, W. Virginia, (1957-59) featuring a mysterious masked rider who defends Michigan, Wisconsin and Maine. In this zone, the mini- the weak and oppressed and signs his work with the initial mum co -channel separation is 170 miles for VHF and 135 "Z," usually carved out by sword. Set in California in 1820, miles for UHF stations. the series was a Walt Disney Production. It starred Guy Zone II has a minimum co -channel separtion of 190 Williams and featured Gene Sheldon, Britt Lomond and miles for VHF and 175 for UHF. It covers Kentucky, Ten- Henry Calvin..
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