Volume 25 Number 6 March 17, 1966 Toronto Timmy is on the Air EASTER Canadian broadcasting is this year celebrating SEALS the twentieth anniversary of Timmy's Easter help Parade of Stars, and with veteran showman Mart Kenney at the wheel and not one but two shows- CRIPPLED radio and television - and no less a guest star CRILDREN than Bing Crosby heading the roster of top talent, :ed. it bids fair to giving the Crippled Children of .. Canada the filip their drive .. .... needs. v Starting in 1947 with a radio program carried only in Ontario, the broadcasters have extended it to cover the whole country, and the difference must be remarkable to Mart Kenney who first served on the committee nineteen years ago, and this year returns as president. When television first came into the picture, half the radio show was televised for national viewing. This developed into a one -hour simulcast for both radio and television. Then, last year, the simulcast was replaced by two separate programs, one for each of the electronic media. As in the past, the CBC produces and distrib- utes the radio show, the final segment, taped March 6 with Bing Crosby, being broadcast on Palm Sunday, April 3. This hour special has been made available to any radio station in Canada. Supporting Bing Crosby this year are The Four Lads, New Christy Minstrels, Petula Clark, as well as such prominent people as Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, hockey great Bobby Hull and Miss Canada. Canadian acts, geographically rep- resentative, include Katherine MacKinnon from the east coast, Winnipeg's Ted Komar and Lance Harrison's Vancouver jazz combo. For French Canada there is songstress Lucille Dumon6. Re- sponsible for the '66 show are CBC staffers Ken Dalziel and Jack Budgell. The CTV Network is producing the TV show through the facilities of CFTO-TV, Toronto, with the blessing of all its affiliated stations, which are combining with the network to make production costs a contribution of the network and the sta- tions. CBC has consented to making this CTV -pro- duced show available to its affiliate stations by CBC micro -wave, believed to be the first time the two chains have co-operated in this way with the exception of CFL and Grey Cup games. This will enable Timmy, symbol of all Cana- dian disabled children, to be seen with Bing Crosby all over Canada. In joining hands to produce these two programs, broadcasters, as individuals serving under Mart Kenney on the committee and as officials on stations and networks, are helping all ten Easter Seal Societies across Canada to reach their ob- jectives. In this issue: Quarterly Directory 20 Beaver Award "Timmy" for 1966 is thirteen year old Paul Picard of North Bay, who Nominations 59 lost his right arm after a fall out of a tree. Symbol of all disabled Cana- dian children, he is fitted with an electrically operated artificial limb and will eventually have very little handicap. 0 0 TV secìaIs1 cartoons and Ilifir] Droorammino THE NUTCRACKER: A new one -hour Color idol hosts a variety show series of one - 100 "OUT OF THE INKWELL" CARTOONS TV Special produced by Bavaria Studios hour TV Teen Programs. Superbly pro- IN COLOR: New TV subjects produced by with music by the Philharmonic Orchestra duced with a cast of 100 teenagers, it's Max Fleischer, the creator of Popeye. of Budapest arranged by Franz Allers ("My 60 -minutes a go-go with today's biggest 234 (ORIGINAL) POPEYE CARTOONS: Fair Lady") and featuring internationally teen music stars in the guest spotlight. Rated the very best TV cartoons. 114 avail- acclaimed premiere dancers from the New BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE ROYAL able in color. York City Ballet, the National Opera of BALLET: A beautiful new half-hour TV Spe- Stuttgart, the National Opera of Munich 337 WARNER BROS. CARTOONS: Bugs cial backstage with Rudolf Nureyev and and the Royal Opera of Copenhagen. Bunny, Porky Pig and all the other famous Dame Margot Fonteyn. Colorcast as a Christmas TV Special on Warner Bros. characters. 311 in color. the CBS Television Network. 26 BOSTON SYMPHONY CONCERTS: One -hour TV Concert Specials featuring 191 LOONEY TUNES CARTOONS: Starring MAN IN SPACE: An exciting and timely the world renowned 104 -piece Boston Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and their friends. series of six one -hour TV Specials (5 in Symphony Orchestra and famous guest color) of the incredible story of man in soloists. The concerts are conducted by space, his trip to the moon and its con- Erich Leinsdorf, Charles Munch, Aaron sequences. Copland, William Steinberg and Richard Burgin. THE GYPSY ROSE LEE SHOW: New half- hour daily across-the-board interview pro- OH, MY WORD: Famous guest celebrities Seven Arts Television gram starring Gypsy Rose Lee and various such as Bob Crosby, Eartha Kitt, Pat Toronto: 11 Adelaide St. West EMpire 4-7193 famous guest celebrities including Judy Boone and Phyllis Diller try to determine New York: 200 Park Avenue YUkon 6-1717 Garland, Robert Goulet, Lee Remick, which of four panelists is giving the cor- Los Angeles: 9000 Sunset Boulevard Arthur Fiedler and Diahann Carroll. rect definition to various wild and wacky CRestview 8-1771 words. One panel member knows the real Seven Arts Productions International, Limited THE DISCOPHONIC SCENE: Jerry Blavat, definition, the others invent one. 26 very Roberts Bldg., East Street, Nassau, Bahamas the upcoming international teenage music funny half-hours. Cable: SEVINT Board of Broadcast Governors Delay Ch. 3 shift sine die The hot potato Channel Three The government freeze on new (Toronto) issue was cooled for an television station development and indefinite period by the Board of the CBC's lack of financial resour- Broadcast Governors last week, a ces were two main factors standing step in advance of a new compli- in the way of the project, Fraser cation that might make the Barrie added. channel's proposed migration more And where does that leave difficult - or impossible. Channel Three? Glued in Barrie (if The BBG shelved Channel the CBC plan wins priority)? May- Three's application with a state- be not. Fraser said the publicly - ment that the proposal would not owned network had also conducted be considered until the existing preliminary studies indicating an- GEORGE GALLAGHER MERV PHILLIPS ED LAURENCE "freeze" on added television other escape hatch for the CKVR The Board of outlets in markets already served group - "the possibility of using Broadcast Governors has recently approved the by one or more stations could be Channel 12 for Barrie." transfer of ownership of the Yorkton Broadcasting Company lifted. He made no guarantee that Chan- Limited, operators of Radio Station CJGX. In the meantime, one strong nel 12 was open, but he thought so. contender for the frequency - the Meanwhile, the Ontario Govern- Total stock in the Company has recently been acquired by Ontario Government-excused itself ment Department of Education three Yorkton broadcasters. The new President, Mr. George and bowed out. The other fly got cleared the Toronto TV -frequency Gallagher, will maintain the office of Manager, which he has in the ointment when the CBC told smog somewhat. During January held for the past seven years. Mr. Mery Phillips and Mr. Ed Broadcaster it would probably con- the department had announced it Laurence, Vice- President and Secretary- Treasurer respec- test the efforts of Allan Waters, would Three (Tor- seek Channel tively, will also act in their present capacities of Sales Stirling and Ralph Snelgrove, an station Geoff onto) for educational TV Manager and Program Director. co -owners of CKVR-TV Barrie, to the government hopes to put on the transfer their Channel Three li- air some time next year. Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Laurence were both born and raised in to Yorkton. While much of their experience was gathered in cence Toronto. But on March 10. Ontario's Edu- Radio Stations in Winnipeg, (The CBC's plan heightens the cation Minister, Hon. William Regina and Edmonton, they have each significance of a secondary an- Davis, told Broadcaster the depart- spent a good many of their broadcasting years with CJGX. nouncement made by the BBG in ment had made a firm decision to Mr. Phillips, a native of Regina, while having gained his connection with the Channel Three revert to its original plan - an radio experience in Regina and Calgary, has spent application. board referred to most of The application for UHF Channel 19 to his adult life with this station. "prospective applicants", then re- serve as its Toronto outlet. Complete take-over by this local group was effective 1, affirmed its 1961 policy regarding The department's strong interest March regarding at which time Mr. Fred Tully, former "clear channels" by in a regular VHF television chan- President, and Mr. Les would giver. Ham, Vice saying the CBC be nel evidently stemmed from the fact -President and Secretary.Treasurer, resigned their priority and most on all lA 1B very few existing Canadian TV positions. clear channels still available in sets can receive UHF channels (all Canada.) those numbered above Channel 13). The CKVR-TV move would ap- As a sidelight to his statement parently be contingent on switching on the Channel Three issue, the the Barrie operation to Channel Minister said the Ontario Govern- 883 Five - a means of maintaining the ment had been "suggesting" the local Barrie service envisioned in desirability of all -channel capabil- the original Channel Three licence. ity legislation to the Federal Gov- But Ron Fraser, CBC vice-pres- ernment. SERVICE ident and assistant to the presi- (In the United States an "all - dent, said the public network had channel" law was passed in April, a plan in the works to utilize Chan- 1964, making it mandatory for man- nel Five for Toronto (barring it to ufacturers to build UHF tuning STATIONS! Barrie), and had been preparing the facilities into all TV sets assem- plan "for some years".