Evening star., 1951-08-21
On the Air
No Shortage
|Of Football
lon TeIevision
By Harry Macarthur

shortage OF GRID telecaStS, you cal
stop worrying right now. Their,
may be even buster football weel
ends than last year on television
some games live. some seen OF
| specially made film.
The latter is a project Of CHS
TV, which will take cameras int
college stadia on 10 Saturdays t,
film games for Sunday showing OF
the network. The annual Army
Navy classic is set to climax thi
Ipigskin series, with December
showing of the December l game
The action of the average foot
ball game can be shown com
pletely in IS minutes on film
which will leave Is minutes TO
discussion by Red Barber and, O
course, commercials. On Severa
Sunday afternoons CBS-TV will
show highlights Of two game
played the afternoon before.
The complete schedule, as i
now stands, is: Army-Villanova
September 80; Navy-Princeton
October 2; Army-Dartmouth, Co.
lumbia Yale, October IA: Mary
land-North Carolina, October 81
Army Columbia. October %
Navy-Notre Dame, Army South
Carolina, November 4; Navy.
Maryland. November IL: Navy.
Columbia, November 18; Mary
|land-West Virginia, plus seasonal
November Is, and
Army Navy, December 2.
College football will be seen, on
Saturday afternoons, on CHS col
or television, though the decision
hasn't yet been made on carrying
these games locally. If they do
turn up on WTOP-TV, you should
find that the announcer is calling
each play so that you can follow
the game even without that pic
ture your black-and-white set
won't get.
Washington football fans also
will be able to see games televised
under the NCAA controlled expert
ment. This plan to test the effect
of television on the box office re-
ceiptS will be more than a little
complicated. with some games go
ing to different football areas,
some staying home. some going
from west to east, some from
east to west, some to the entire
network and some Saturdays
blacked out. WNBW, as things
now stand with the tentative
schedule, will caryy eight col
legiate games, with none on Oc-
tober 6, when the entire network
will be blacked out, and none on
September % and November 10
when Washington will be in one
Fof the areas blacked out.
The local station right now is
busy with arrangements for good
non-collegiate games on these Sat-
urday afternoons.
The seasons football fare on TV
also will include six out-of- town
games of the Washington Red
skins, to be carried Sunday after
Moons by WMAL-TV. These will
be: Redskins-Lions, September 80;
Browns. october IA; Eagles, Oc-
tober %; Giants, November IL;
SteelerS, November 18, and Cardi-
nails, September 9. Harry Wismer
and Jim Gibbons will share the
microphone chores.
Apparently none of the foot
ball games to be televised by
DuMont will be carried by
WTTG. Approval OF George
Preston Marshall was necessary
for that project, but the man
said no.
Programs and People: There
was some trade talk that Faye
EmerSon's sponsor was dissatis-
fled with her Wonderful Town" ("
but the talk doesn't seem to have
convinced the sponsor, whose
message today is: "Faye Emer-
sons Wonderful Town for Pepsi
Cola, will return to the air with
a salute to st. Louis, Mo-, on
September /, over the CBS-TV
system at Q pm. EDIT" Ted
Mack of Original Amateur
Hour" (WNBw - Tuesday. 10
p.m) and Family Hour
CWMAL-TV-Sunday, 6 p.m). is
taking an Amateur Hour"
troupe to Europe for a tour of
American bases. Bert Lytell will
take over as Family Hour" host
next Sunday and on September 2
and 8. Andy Roberts, Incl
dentally, will be added to the
Family Hour" cast with next
show. The young singer
also has been invited to addition
for a Broadway musical now
being cast, is being screen-tested
by Goth Century-Fox and has
signed a new recording contract.
Julie Stevens seems to have
settled herself solidly in her first
televiSion role. that of Lorelei
Kilbourne. girl reporter, in big
Town" (WTOP-TV-T Thursday.
$50 p.mJ. The familiarity her
voice has for a number of view
ers stems from the fact that she
has played the title role in the
sturdy serial, Romance Of Helen
Trent" since 1914.
\ n
Radio Department: Last Sat-
urday's 'Living-1951'a script,
about the United States Public
Health Service fight against
deadly diseases, was written by
WaShington's Dorothea Lewis.
She's an old hand at NBC radio
documentaries. Edward K.
Murrow, will return next Monday
to his 7:45 pm. spot on CHS
radio. after an eight week
summer vacation. :. Frank
Blair. moved out of the early