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Festival of the Performing Arts. This excellent program, in which highly talented performers are given free rein by Producers David Susskind and James Fleming to spend one hour on the air doing whatever they please, has returned for its second season. It is not a network show, but is seen in many parts of the country, as magnetic tapes are shipped to various cities. On Washington, D.C.'s WTTG, 9-10 p.m.,* Actor Jason Robards Jr. appears in a reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack...
...Canceled the showing of a TV documentary to mark the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. Prepared by the state-owned TV network, the film included a tirade by Nikita Khrushchev that, in the government's words, was "violently hostile to West Germany and to the policy of Franco-German rapprochement.''' Same week, another documentary movie. Death in Madrid, consisting mostly of stock shots taken during the 1936 Spanish Civil War, was denied a license for exhibition in France or abroad-presumably for fear of offending Franco...
Jusl-Like a Woman. So says a new book, The People Look at Television, by Gary Steiner (Knopf: $7.95). The findings are based on two surveys financed by CBS, TV's most prosperous network (its 1962 profit was equal to that of NBC and ABC combined). The people interviewed (2,500 in the U.S. at large, 300 in Manhattan) somehow seem to show a three-to-one preference for CBS shows...
Through the expanded facilities of UBS, Harvard will be able to broadcast live concerts and other special programs offered by the other stations. "The new network offers greater opportunities for musical, cultural, and educational entertainment," Wyzga said. He added that UBS might influence the major Boston radio stations to improve the "intellectual content" of their programs...
...special program last night over WBUR, B.U.'s FM station, inaugurated the new network. Small broadcasts from the other stations demonstrated the new facilities. For its broadcast...