Word: telecast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This sharp look at a rugged profession was telecast over Los Angeles' independent KTTV by an enterprising producer named Paul Coates. Last year Coates, a columnist for the Los Angeles Mirror, decided to create a hard-hitting television program that, he says, would do the things "a newspaperman can do on television. I had written some scripts for Dragnet . . . The greatest attraction there is stark reality in dialogue and faces. I wanted to do a show with real realism. As part of my job on the Mirror, I see the petty hoodlums, prostitutes, homosexuals, unwed mothers, people victimized...
...Boardwalk (Sun. 8 p.m., ABC) is telecast from the Steel Pier at Atlantic City, and borrows its format from the Original Amateur Hour. Veteran Paul Whiteman serves as M.C., a panel of celebrities judges the performers, and each week some of the previous winners get a chance to show how much they have improved. Unlike the Amateur Hour, which runs 30 minutes, On the Boardwalk goes on for a full hour. It seems longer...
...weeks from now, edited the finished script for the show eight weeks away. The same day, he had to check on costumes and casts for episodes three and four weeks in the future, while taking care of production details for last week's 100th show (which will be telecast Oct. 4). After that was filmed, he had to supervise the cutting, editing and dubbing of the shows shot two, three and four weeks...
...days and 186½ hours of testimony, figured out what the public service cost them. ABC paid about $500,000 out of pocket to feed the hearings to as many as 71 outlets, estimated that it would have cost an advertiser $2,700,000 to sponsor the entire telecast of the hearings. The smaller (ten stations) DuMont network used $700,000 worth of air time to carry the hearings, would not say how much the telecasts actually cost...
...Riley (another newcomer), Godfrey and His Friends, Our Miss Brooks and Toast of the 'Town (newcomer). Missing from the list this year: Your Show of Shows, Comedy Hour, What's My Line? ¶ From New York the Rocky Marciano-Ezzard Charles heavyweight-championship fight (see SPORT) was telecast on a closed circuit to 61 theaters in 45 cities-the largest number of outlets since theater TV began. Despite the price of tickets ($2.75 up) and the fact that the fight was carried on radio, approximately 200,000 theater customers turned...