Word: kttv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...programs seem as if they were made up entirely of commercials. Last week Los Angeles' KTTV went all the way, put on Cavalcade of Spots, a half-hour show that was in fact nothing but commercials...
Cavalcade was born last spring when KTTV President Richard A. Moore astonished the Western Association of National Advertisers by offering prime time for a 13-week program of commercials -and offered to foot the bill himself. Moore was delighted by the association's flood of entries for the show, became more "convinced than ever that some of the most creative material on television today is contained within the commercials...
...with network moneymen: a high rating. Notified by ABC that prime Monday-night time would no longer be available next season, and with no adequate substitute time on CBS or NBC, Voice will almost surely die in June. Even a last-minute offer last week by Los Angeles' KTTV to tape the show and sell it to independent stations was regretfully turned down. Having put on a high-quality musical show for so long, and having the bankroll to pay for its performance in high-price time, Firestone is adamant about not settling for a second-class slot...
...thousands of viewers in the Los Angeles area, station KTTV's impromptu 90-minute crime show last week was better than the big networks' M Squad, Dragnet or Highway Patrol had ever been. Instead of Lee Marvin. Jack Webb or Broderick Crawford, they saw two real hooch-soaked hoods with six hostages as they held out in a tense siege by 150 real cops and FBI agents in an Inglewood dive just outside Los Angeles...
...friend of police, KTTV Special Events Director Bill Welsh, 46, was tipped off on the story only 15 minutes after it broke. He alerted a mobile unit that fortunately was operating near the scene on another story, scurried into action himself with a second stand-by crew. Well behind came a crew from KTLA, rival of the Los Angeles Times-controlled KTTV, but it never...