No Way To Foretell If TV Series Will Hit Or Miss
Hollywood reports that no one in show business nor a computer can predict a TV series hit with certainty. The TV division relies on intuition and market sense rather than a foolproof prognosticator.
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1965
Page
10
Hollywood reports that no one in show business nor a computer can predict a TV series hit with certainty. The TV division relies on intuition and market sense rather than a foolproof prognosticator.
The piece surveys networks CBS NBC and ABC as they pick promising new series. It highlights The FBI from ABC produced by Quinn Martin, Hogan's Heroes on CBS, Get Smart on NBC, I Spy from Sheldon Leonard, Green Acres from Paul Henning, and a Journey Into Fear project by Eric Ambler and Joan Harrison.
A compilation of television station identifiers lists WMT TV Cedar Rapids WISC TV Madison WCCO TV Minneapolis and WEAU TV Eau Claire with their channel assignments for easy reference. The lineup highlights stations across four cities and serves as a quick directory for viewers.
A dense Sunday lineup lists religious programs like Faith For Today and This Is the Life, classic features including The Christophers and Navy Film, and children’s segments such as Fisher Family. Highlights include The Big Picture, Adventures in Living, and Saturday era exports like Beware, preserving a multi-hour schedule across morning to afternoon.
The listing provides a dense sequence of shows and times across genres from 1:30 to 10:40, including bowling, roller derby, golf, football, The Rifleman, Encore, Movie and multiple well known series such as Lassie Wagon Train Sullivan Show Twilight Zone Bonanza The Fugitive Candid Camera and Ben Casey among others with interspersed news weather and sports briefs. The format resembles a navigational broadcast grid with multiple networks or channels sharing blocks.
The Sunday August 29 radio timetable lists programs from Ave Maria to Hall of Sound and Platter Party acrossWisconsin stations WCOW FM Sparta and related time slots. It includes church services sermons music news and various show lineups throughout the day ending with Sign Off.
Hollywood AP reports Bing Crosby appears unshaven with unruly hair as a bibulous frontier doctor in Stagecoach. He takes a serious character turn with added comedy bits, adapts from the 1939 film, and notes agent George Rosenberg urged the part. He jokes about sobriety during the baby delivery scene.
Lee Snapp hosts a Sunday morning musicale on WLCX at 8 with interludes from Gemini V splashdown news. Ferrante Teicher and Al Martino's orchestra perform a mix of standards and film songs, plus Cavallero and Boston Pops selections. WKTB and WKTV also feature gospel and choral pieces as part of the Sunday music lineup.
The Great Plains and Rocky Mountain region will be the theme of the third du Pont This Proud Land program on ABC. Host and guide is Robert Preston.
A restoration program led by Harold Flender begins July 21 in Helena Montana and will expand to ten states. Don Horan directs the project with teams in the Rocky Mountain region. Preston joins from Chicago after finishing The Surprising Middle West. The Interior Department plans a staged program at Sun Valley Idaho Yellowstone Park and other sites to depict Lincoln era drama with a $75000 refurbishing cost.
The Obrecht Sisters Trio performed five concerts this month at St Josephs Villa Convent Eleonora Gund Home St Josephs Home La Crosse Home for Children and a White Cane Club meeting under the Recording Industries Trust Fund sponsorship.
Preston traces pioneer journeys on the Oregon Trail through Nebraska and Montana and Nevada ghost towns. He visits Air Force Academy NORAD SAC sites in Colorado and Utah, Denver, Salt Lake City, Topeka's Menninger Clinic, and Aspen and Jackson Hole cultural centers. He interviews A B Guthrie Dan Cushman Dr Karl Menninger Utah singers and new settlers.
The auditorium launches weekly Teen Pepsi Parties starting Oct 17 from 1 30 to 4 30 Sunday. Top La Crosse deejays Lindy Shannon Chuck Bailey and Johnny Wallin headline with groups and soloists. event aims to showcase area teen orchestras and vocalists with merchant gift incentives.
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