"ZOO PARADE" -Briefly Popular ABC Adventure Series
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.
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