Word: cbs
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...CBS GOLF CLASSIC (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). Harold Henning and George Knudson play George Archer and Bob Lunn in the first of a 14-round elimination match for $225,000 at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio...
...CBS President Frank Stanton: I would...
...this roundabout way, Boggs was trying to get Stanton to admit before the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence that TV mayhem affects the minds of susceptible viewers. But the CBS president, a Ph.D. in psychology, insisted that this proposition was unproved, and required further study. Besides, he added: "We don't yet have the methodology with which to make the study." Boggs quickly recollected congressional committee investigations that have been going on since 1954. His voice rose. "This is the study-est thing that has ever happened with no results," he said. "How long...
Pilot Comedies. Results of this de-escalation should show more plainly next season. ABC President Leonard Goldenson told the violence commission that only one of the 30 series now under development by his network is an "adventure" show. CBS's senior programming vice president, Mike Dann, agrees that "the number of action shows is down drastically in the pilot area." His NBC counterpart, Mort Werner, also anticipates "more comedy and less action." The networks' Hollywood suppliers are, of course, reacting accordingly. Universal Studios is not making any more westerns on speculation, but is concentrating on three new doctor...
...Attrition takes care of these things," says William H. Tankersley, CBS vice president for program practices (censorship). What he means is that roughly 25% of all shows fail each season, and that this year they will be replaced mainly by variety shows and situation comedies. "It's a cyclical thing anyway," he explains. "Every four or five years the action shows build up, but every four or five years the comedy shows build up too. Violence in programming had already got to the cyclical buildup point before the Kennedy assassination...