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The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel Rocky Jones, Space Ranger 25 West 45th Street New York 36, New York PLaza 7-0100 Cartoon Library 6A 7961 INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION ALMANAC Editor: CHARLES S. AARONSON Associates: JAMES D. IVERS, G. H. FAUSEL, PETER BURNUP, SAM BERNS, PINKY HERMAN QUIGLEY PUBLICATIONS + NEW YORK Foreword THIS IS the sixth edition of a reference book that is devoted to the business of television with due cognizance of its relationship to the business of motion pictures. As a com- panion volume of International Motion Picture Almanac (which has entered its 33rd year), International Television Almanac enjoys the editorial resources of Quigley Publications in both industries of the screen. In the 1961 edition, the facts of the television industry specifically are again brought up to date, compiled and arranged for convenient use by the staff of Quigley Publications with the expert inclusion of data on people, or- ganizations and services of motion pictures that also are pertinent to television. With the 1961 edition, International Television Almanac carries forward a service for the whole business world of the screen. -MARTIN QUIGLEY 1961 INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION ALMANAC Contents copyrighted 1960 by Quigley Publishing Company, New York. Publications of general circulation may reproduce material in this volume if proper credit is given Interna- tional Television Almanac; reeroduction by all other pub- lications without written permission is expressly forbidden. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 STATISTICS Network and Station Operations There were 521 commercial stations operating in the United States as of June, 1960 located in some 300 markets and serving more than 46,000,000 families. TOTAL REVENUE OF TELEVISION NETWORKS AND STATIONS Year Revenue 1953 432,700,000 1947 $1,900,000 1954 593,000,000 1948 8,700,000 1955 744,700,000 1949 34,300,000 1956 896,900,000 1950 105,900,000 1957 943,200,000 1951 235,700,000 1958 1,030,000,000 1952 324,200,000 1959 1,163,000,000 BROADCAST REVENUES, EXPENSES, AND INCOME OF TELEVISION NETWORKS AND STATIONS (Million dollars) 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 Revenues $1,163.9 $1,030.0 $943.2 $896.9 $744.7 $593.0 Expenses 941.6 858.1 783.2 707.3 594.5 502.7 Income (before Federal tax) - 171.9 160.0 189.6 150.2 90.3 17 Net- Total 3 works 502 Networks Owned and Other and 519 3 Operated TV TV Networks Stations Stations Stations Breakdown for 1959 Millions of $ A. Revenue from the sale of time: 1. Total network time sales $443.3 - 2. Deduct from network revenue: a. Paid owned and operated st. 30.5 - - b. Paid affiliated st. 155.5 - - - 3. Non -network time sales: a. National and regional advt. - $92.6 $331.6 $424.2 b. Local advertisers - 27.3 173.3 200.6 Total non -network time sales. - 119.9 504.9 624.8 4. Total time sales 287.8 150.4 632.4 1,070.6 6. Deduct commissions to agen- 180.2 cies, representatives, etc.... 66.7 21.9 91.6 7. Net time sales 221.1 128.5 540.8 890.4 B. Revenues from incidental broad- cast activities 217.4 9.1 47.0 273.5 Total broadcast revenues 438.5 137.6 587.8 1,163.9 Total broadcast expenses 406.5 81.7 453.4 941.6 Broadcast income (before income tax) 32.0 55.9 134.4 222.3 9A Dial Turning: a popular American spo rt (OR HOW THE PUBLIC EXPRESSED ITS VIEWING PREFERENCES IN THE '50S) 40 t, io - 39 8 392 O 30 30.9 30.1 ABC-TV 5 '32.1 30.7 -e NET Y 30.0 ,130.5 7.3 28.4 .23.3 20.5 16.7 Average ;13 5 Share of ABC -TV Audience II : '53259 953 1954 1955 19,56 1957 19 i959' SOURCU,SUNDAY.SATURDAY 11.0 30 P.N. NIELSEN muLTIALTeg>fix MAAKITS. OCC 1953-19541. NIELSEN 24 N.R.CTI DEC 1 ,99 10A In the '50s television came of age. Its growing pains were necessarily marked by occasional dislocations and disenchantments as well as by many brilliant cultural achievements. And in the '50s, as television emerged as the world's largest mass medium, it became clear that the television audience is actually many audiences, with widely diverse tastes. The programming obligations of the broadcasters must therefore be based on a democratic concept of cultural freedom-that is, the rights of the people to want what they want when they want it. Obviously no one is told what to watch in this country. Instead of arm -twisting, we go in for dial -twisting. It is this broad freedom of choice, as it naturally evolved in the '50s, which makes the graph on the left worth noting. This graph shows at a glance how consistent has been ABC's gain in average share of audience' over the peak viewing periods of seven Decembers. Today, in a medium where cultural democracy supplies the most definitive of measurements, ABC has now gained the largest share of audience* This is an expression of popularity achieved, it would seem, by giving more people what they want when they want it. This will continue to be our goal for the sixties. ABC TELEVISION llA The statistics herein have been compiled from varied sources within the Television industry and the Government, inclusive of the Federal Communications Commission, U. S. Department of Commerce, Radio -Electronics -Television Manufacturers Association, NBC Research De- partment, Publishers Information Bureau, Nielsen Television Index, American Research Bureau, Television Bureau of Advertising. NETWORK TELEVISION GROSS TIME BILLINGS January-December January -September Percent Percent 1958 1959 Change 1959 1960 Change American $103,016,938 $125,665,324 +22.0 $86,744,444 $112,721,410 +29.9 Columbia 247,782,734 266,355,269 +7.5 195,350,810 204,356,596 +4.6 National 215,790,729 235,290,937 +9.0 169,188,474 177,318,634 +4.8 Total $566,590,401 $627,311,530 +10.7 $451,283,728 $494,386,640 +9.6 MONTH BY MONTH-1959 ABC CBS NBC TOTAL January $10,647,078 $22,129,248 $19,299,853 $52,076,179 February 10,024,460 20,806,220 18,053,828 48,884,508 March 11,565,031 23,265,395 20,728,315 55,558,741 April 10,309,263 22,077,285 19,739,816 52,126,364 May 9,946,570 22,298,271 19,674,494 51,919,335 June 8,930,114 21,171,128 17,984,845 48,086,087 July 8,391,470 21,269,782 17,883,111 47,544,363 August 8,205,520 21,137,261 17,298,527 46,641,308 *September 8,724,938 21,196,220 18,525,685 48,446,843 October 12,537,020 23,610,441 22,883,291 59,030,752 *November 13,103,250 23,458,970 21,765,361 58,327,581 December 13,280,610 23,935,048 21,453,811 58,669,469 $000,000,000 $000,000,000 $000,000,000 $000,000,000 * Figures revised as of 2/10/60.