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theaters Dining Dancing TV Radio Logs Beacon secttmm WICHITA KANSAS 67201 SATURDAY JULY 23 1966 Ch 24 May Unite With New Network These children of entertainers are now on TV From left Noel Harrison Nancy Sinatra Gary Lewis Children Now Making Debuts on TV The fourth commercial television network and the fourth television station in the city may come to Wichita in one channel Morgan secretary for Consolidated Broadcasting Co which has acquired a license for an ultra high frequency station said in a telephone conversation this week that the in Washington are In contact with the Overmycr Network people ARE available to be an outlet for said the spokesman for the group of Chillicothe Mo businessmen who form the company the main reason for our delay he said of the plans to establish here Consolidated will be the second station to broadcast over UHF here Its license was granted last March by the Federal Communications Commission The station will operate as Channel 24 (KEDD Wichita's first UHF station began broadcasting in 1953 and went off the air in April 1956) THE STATION has a tower site located one-half mile west of West Street on 21st FCC allows for an 8-month period between the time the license is issued and the beginning of station operations That deadline comes up Dec 1 for the Missouri company The new network is slated for a fall 1967 operating target Its plans were announced earlier this month Its proposed offerings are to include a complete spectrum of live and taped entcrtainmait news sports and public service programming INITIALLY its plans are to operate on an 8-hour daily schedule competing with established networks The will be WPIX in New York which is owned by the New York Daily News Network officials have indicated that there are verbal agreements with 35 independent stations to use its programs More than 100 are expected to be affiliated by the time operations begin Initial investment for network functions will reportedly be in the $6-to-10 million cate- Expected growth would that to more than $100 million in the next five years THE NEW NETWORK expects to provide its affiliates with a daily news service from United Press International Heading the new network la Daniel II Overmyer who operates a Toledo Ohio television station and Oliver Treyz former president of the American Broadcasting Co The new network is geared specifically to meet the needs of the Independent television station operation so he can bettor compete with network affiliates experience as owner of six TV stations has been that the unaffiliated broadcaster can't buy sufficient top-flight programming ARE therefore attempting to fill a real void in the programming of non-network broadcasters the response already received suggests that our philosophy is shared by the operators of TV stations both independent and those now affiliated with other he says Treyz adds that new network has been launched since 1948 when I was a part of that effort At that time there were 51 commercial TV stations and the present three networks Next year there will be over 700 commercial TV stations and the same three networks Clearly there is a need for a new network It is in the public interest" Career Spans TV Radio Newspapers By RICK DU BROW Of ValM fiM Wwallmi HOLLYWOOD A host of second-generation show business talent will burst onto the television scene in a big way In the coming season The most publicized of these youngsters thus far is Mario Thomas daughter of comedian Danny Thomas who will have her own serin on ABC-TV That Girl a situation comedy about an aspiring actress SONS and daughters of other famous stars also will be on tap Nod Harrison son of Rex Harrison will be a regular in new sales The Girl From UNCJL JS David Carradine son of the longtime character actor John Carradine is the star of another new series Shane based on the motion picture of the same name Nancy Sinatra who has turned out hit records of her own recently will "team up with her father Frank Sinatra for his next musical television special Dean daughter Gail who likewise has embarked on a singing career is according to trade reports preparing to make her video debut on her NBC-TV variety series THE IDEA of second generation performers is highly appealing to network executives chiefly because the television medium is built around family and it is quite natural for family viewers to show spe- INSIDE dal interest in talented offsprings Jerry son Gary for Instance has had success with his musical group in video appearances as well as in recordings Another of Danny children a son also has formed his own musical group and recently made his television debut with it on Ed Sullivan hour It is called Thomas and the comedian showed up on the Sullivan program to help launch the boys ANOTHER of Dean children Dino has for some time been in a musical group with the son of Lucille Ball aid Dcsi Araaz and it too has had considerable financial success Years ago there was a well-known singing group called King In recent times they and all their relatives had an ABC-TV show Warren to Produce Adventure Series HOLLYWOOD Charles Marquis Warren will replace Herbert Hirschman as executive producer of a new action-packed adventure series Iron Horse which stars Dale Robertson and will premiere in color in the fall Warren was formerly associated with Gunsmoke was the creator of Rawhide and the first producer of The Virginian TODAY called The King Family And now some of the youngsters in the family are showing up in their own group as a performing unit Such a unit recently appeared on Summer Music Hall series Jack Jones son of singer Allan Jones is a regular video warbler The sons of such other stars as Henry Fonda Mickey Rooney Joel McCrea and Robert Walker also are steadily on television view Ustinov Set For TV Role Of Socrates Peter Ustinov has agreed to play the leading role of Socrates in the television adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's in on Hallmark Hall of Fame This will be the first appearance on the Hallmark series for the distinguished British actor whose citations as performer playwright director and producer include an Emmy two Oscars a Golden Globe a Grammy and a New York Drama award REHEARSALS for the 90-minute color special will begin in the fall No air date has been set but in likely will be the opening drama of 16th television season IN COMMENTING on the play George Schaefer produce-director said Anderson has written a fascinating character study of Socrates the philosopher and the man of Xantippe his shrewish wife who is nonetheless treated with great compassion and understanding in the play and of the genial Spartan king Pausanias who likes to be called but is not as stupid as he appears this Schaefer said playwright has woven a very timely day which contrasts the dictatorship of Sparta with its enemy the world's first democracy the City State of Also announced for fall pres-entatiM by Hallmark' Is Sir James comedy Admirable By ELVIRA CROCKER Staff Writer Bill Platt is one of those rare three-media men He has gone from radio to newspaper to television The KAKE TV newsman does the early evening and 10 pm newscasts And as he reveals that 40 he Jokingly adds destroying my A native of Tama Iowa he earned his speech degree at the University of Iowa in 1948 But his college work had been interrupted by an Air Force tour of duty He came to Kansas via Oklahoma he explains It was a radio Job at a university that took him to the Sooner state been in Kansas 15 years now enough" he says I feel like a IT WAS RADIO that brought him to this state too He joined the KFH news staff in 1953 and while with that station for eight years he served as morning news editor For a year after leaving KFH he turned to newspaper work with The Wichita Eagle In August 1961 he joined the KAKE-TV and Radio staffs Though he did both radio and TV work In subsequent years his work now is confined to television news His main duties were formerly a combination of news brief story reports have the most important details for his viewers part of a philosophy of -his that the announcer should be knowledgeably comfortable with the news reading Otherwise he explains an air of superficiality obvious to the a firm believer that newspapers and television complement each other Television can reflect briefly on the news of the day he says A newspaper can elaborate on the news and should on a number of subjects that because of time limitations are treated lightly on TV-radio newscasts BEYOND not using things he Turn to Page PLATT Freeman Will Play Dancing Daughter HOLLYWOOD Pam Freeman has been signed to play Phyllis older daughter Stephanie Pruitt in a new fall color comedy scries Pruitts of Pam 22 years old and a blue-eyed blonde was formerly a dancer on Shindig A nar tive of Los Angeles her motion picture credits include and the Martin Balsam who won an Academy Award last spring seems unchanged by his success Page 9D Julie Andrews want to be type cast as the sweet young thing all the time Page 15D Check the Guide to Good Dining for new places to try when in the mood to dine out Page 11D Also inside today An Landers Page 13D Radio Log Pago ID Ask TV Scent Page UD Sports Scene Page 7D Current Movies Page 17D Wngs to Do Page 1SD From This TV Legs vPagep 4D ID ID Viewpoint lPage 3D 1ID 12D 14D 1ID UD Premieres 7D Win at Bridge Page UD Staff Photo Bill Platt A three-media man ersonaiiiy Profile announcing and serving as editorial assistant He's chiefly on the writing and announcing end of the news now HIS FORMULA in news presentation? makes' sure he understands what talking about and makes sure his.