Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Giovanni's Wedding," an original five-act musical based on some of Kaye's earlier sketches about a shy Italian-tailor-come-to-America. Amzie Strickland plays the widow who breaks through Giovanni's shell and gently leads him to the altar...
COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of "Moscow State Circus," taped in Minsk, with Dinah Shore as hostess. The seven acts include the famed Dudykchau Teeterboard Tumblers, the Potchernikova Bears, the Berikovi Aerial Rockets...
What galled Funt was that CBS did not even give him the courtesy of telling him directly that he was washed up. Instead, they informed his agent. The way it happens, said Funt, is that the network tells the agent: "Joe, it's a dirty job. You tell him. Don't forget, you better tell him because we're going to be doing business with you tomorrow...
...casual attitude toward money also burned Funt. For example, he explained, CBS paid $75,000 a week for the Candid Camera package. Out of that, his agent continued to get 10%. "Imagine," he added, "a company that makes $7,500 a week for a sale that they made seven years ago!" Another instance of television's "ridiculous arithmetic": Producer Bob Banner, who helped get Candid Camera on CBS, receives a steady $7,000 a week without having to go to the studio...
That suspicion derives in large part from the new economics of the movie industry. Buffeted for years by falling movie attendance and rising costs, U.S. film makers have more recently revived themselves by selling movie rights to TV; last fall MGM leased 63 films to CBS for an average of $800,000 each. With potential riches even greater, prudent movie executives recognize the need to ration their film stockpiles instead of depleting them too fast. Because old movies have become such valuable-and easily disposable-assets, Hollywood's film companies are particularly wary of takeover bids by outsiders eager...