Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most popular single film property in the history of U.S. television is MGM's 1939 The Wizard of Oz. When it was first presented on CBS-TV in 1956, Oz attracted 35 million viewers; last February the annual showing reached 44.6 million. Over the years, Oz has captured an average 53%~of all sets in use at the time (30% is considered high...
...such surefire fare, CBS has been paying MGM a bargain rate of $200,000 for each replay. When the network's option finally ran out this year, bidding understandably leaped somewhere over the rainbow. MGM asked for $1,000,000 per showing, almost the same rate as the record $2,300,000 it received from ABC this year for the first two TV reruns of Marlon Brando's Mutiny on the Bounty...
...cost of a tender offer runs no higher than 3% of the deal-for legal fees, a splurge of advertising to woo stockholders, and interest charges on temporary financing, if it is needed. While proxy fights often turn into marathons (Realty Developer Philip Levin's battle with MGM is now more than a year old and far from over), tender offers generally click or flop within a fortnight. One reason: stockbrokers find them particularly profitable since under New York Stock Exchange rules they get a double commission, once on the sale by the investor and again on the purchase...
ERIC IS HERE (MGM). Time was when the Animals had growl and bite, a sound as earthy as the Rolling Stones'. But they have been tamed and harnessed to a carefully arranged orchestra, while Leader Eric Burdon sings a broad spectrum of the blues (In the Night, I Think It's Gonna Rain Today). Eric's voice is good and his sobs most mellifluous, but the total effect is more glossy than real...
THERE'S A KIND OF HUSH ALL OVER THE WORLD (MGM). Anyone who listens to rock 'n' roll on the radio can't help hearing about hearing that hush-"the sounds of lovers in love." The sunny troubadors are Herman's Hermits who also sing such post-nursery rhymes as Little Miss Sorrow, Child of Tomorrow, If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin' and No Milk Today...