Evening star., 1949-12-11
News of VideO and Radio
CHS Plans to Wrestle Viewers
Away From Milton Berle

NreStle Viewers
Milton Berle
Macarthur
i wood rumor: That Rita Hayworth
plans to make a series Of Aims for
television. What radio and
screen stars appear on television
for is to be paid. but some of
them are getting paid not to ap-
pear. At least Gene Autry is. He
gets $500 a week from his radio
sponsor to stay away from the
TV cameras. WTTG increases
its daytime programming, start
ing tomorrow. 1t will sign on at
/ pm. Monday through Friday.
with Dennis James "Okay Moth
er." Paul Winchell, the ven-
triloquist, and his Jerry Mahoney
will play host on MICS telecast
from 1.-THE City of Timesquare.
U. S. A." from ll:45 pm. to 1905
am. New Year eve. "The Clos
ing Door," melodrama, which has
Just opened in New York, will be
visited tonight (WO1C-7 p.mJ by
Tonight on Broadway" Shop
by Television," the Tuesday night
at 7:30 feature on WMAL-TV.
will be increased to half hour
this week. Ruth Crane conducts
it, with models in the studio to
take telephone orders for mer-
chandise shown by video. {.
BLACK Robe" (WRC Saturday,
10 p.m), which uses non-profes-
sional people from all walks Of
life in its courtroom dramas, is
running into a professional actor
problem. They're donning second
hand clothing and prowling the
streets Of Lower Manhattan when
ever they hear that Producer Phil
| lips Lords scouts are out looking
for types. The Washington
Television Circulation Commit
tees latest report shows 78.700
television sets in operation here as
of December /. the monthly in
crease of 9.150 being the largest
since the committee started count
ing two years ago. The 78,700|
figure was greeted with cheer in
the local video industry, $4,000
sets being generally agreed in the
business as the number TV sta
tions in an area must be serving
before they can start operating
in the black.
y
Programs and People: Michael
Briggs. 6, and Barbara Cohen, IA,
are the Washington representa-
tives who scored high enough on
"Quiz Kids" (WRC-Sunday, 3:30l
p.mJ last Sunday to be held over
for today's broadcast here. They
will be joined today by three other
Washingtonians, Margaret Busick.
IA; Teddy Collins. IL, and Marthus
Smith, 10. Mike Hunnicutt,
long a morning man" around
town, is the latest turned up in
the increased attention being
given midnight-hour disc jockey
ing around here. Mike has re-
turned to WRC, this time to
broadcast from 1880 pm. to 1880
am. Tickets are on sale at
Uline Arena, the FGirway and
Mitchell's Sport Shop for the
vaudeville show and broadcast Of
the finals of the Horace Heidi
talent hunt at Uline next Sunday
night. The Junior Chamber Of
Commerce is sponsoring. Bud
get retrenchment having turned
the CHS "You Are There" from
a weekly show into one heard
every four weeks, WTOP is moving
R new local documentary into the
spot f2:30 p.m.) on alternate
Sundays. It is titled Potomac
Panorama" and will be done by
Producer Larry Beckerman and
Writer Robert Nichols. WMAL
is programming an hour of classi-
cal music on Saturday afternoons
at l, preceding the Metropolitan
Opera broadcasts. With foot
ball out Of the way, WTOP is
scheduling Eddie Gallaher for an
hour at 8 pm. and Gene Klavan
for an hour at 4 on Saturdays. u. :.
A new approach to public service
Iprogramming starts tomorrow on
WQQW with q series titled Men
From Mars" This has no refer
ence to Orson Welles. but is the
name of the sponsor. a furniture
wholesaler, who will pay for the
15-minute daily program, sched-
luled for 9:45 am, and make it
available to any qualified group
with a public service story to tell.
:. WASH-FM has q new Wednes-
day-at-8:30 mystery series, 1.-THE
Man in Black" starring Valentine
Dyall.