Corpus Christi Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 33

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Caller-Times Sun May 20 1956 STAR OF TODAY Bendix Tires Of Question About Riley "Are you like Riley around the! houseT" That question hu plagued Final decision on television VHF with "selective lntermix- TV and 16 reserved for educa- Dave Garroway Successful Man Without Ambition Bill Bendix ever aince he etarted Channel 10 giving Corpus Christl foe title role in "The Lite of two very high frequency stations tlonal purposes No one hu ever applied for the educational channel Hunt Dallai oil multimil- linnaire wai first to apply for Channel 22 but he withdrew during hearings when the FCC ngreed to assign another UHF channel 43 to this area and to Hunt Hunt later sold hia permit to Gordon McClendon of Dallas who never used it and the permit was finally vacated by the FCC Riley" Bendix Is one star who doesn't mind being typed as Riley or being frequently hailed as "Riley" on the streets But he has been asked so many times if he is Riley at hone that he has started asking Interviewers why could come tomorrow or not until summer or not at all Vann Kennedy president of Radio Station KSIX said yesterday KS1X was given initial allocation of Channel 10 a year and four months ago on Jan 20 1955 Unsuccessful applicants KEYS and Superior Television Co appealed and a long process of filing briefs and hearing oral argu- he is supposed to be "I once did a role in 'The llairy "T1" Krnnv "nd hi 'soeiates now are "just marking time" until the final decision comes Bill says "No one ever Hire1' in areas where UHF could reasonably he expected to Whether the fate of Channel 10 will be held up until foe whole intermixture problem is solved no one knows The ultimate decision could also affect KRIS-TV adversely Also in the way of final decision Is a Hal on foe merits of the issue raised by KVDO-TV The court has bended down only a pre-judgment declining to stop KRIS from proceeding with VHF telecasting Freese Lifted The battle for television permits in Corpus Christ! has been underway sinre April 1952 when the 42-month-old "freeze" on allocations was lifted by the FCC Two VHF channels I and 10 were alloted and two UHF channels 22 finally awarded KVDO- Ambition has had nothing to do with tha Dave Garroway aueceaa He's the first to claim that he hasn't any ambition now and never did have any Thereby hangs the riddle of his ahowhusiness life He's a man who turns a top income merely by being himself His talents are natural ones an eye for the unusual a great deal of excellent taste a clever manner of expressing himself a nose for foe new and an ear for good music Put them all together and you have the Dave Garroway the personality that la projected every weekday morning for NBC Television's "Today" KRIS-TV will telecast a portion of Monday through Friday from 7 to 8 am His first appearance before a radio microphone was in 133" at one of the truly pioneer radio stations -Pittsburgh's KDKA He has been in foe public eye ever since His IT years in radio and television have been taken at a moderate calm and collected pace Garroway keeps getting where he's going almost without realizing that he wants to get there Bora In Rchaaretady Although he was born in Sche-nectady during World War I no city can lay claim to him as being a native son Nearest to claiming this honor would be St Louis where he lived for eight years while he went to high school and Washington University A chance meeting with an old acquaintance in New York who led him to an Interview for a page boy's Job at NBC That was in 1937 Garroway has never worked foe' anyone but NBC (and one of its affiliated stations) excepting of course Uncle Sam during foe last war' The page boy Job during which Garroway studied the rudiments of announcing and incidentally finished 23rd in a class of 24 led to an offer of a Job at KDKA 11 months later handling special events A vacation trip to Chicago a visit to the NBC studios there and an audition he took for the heck of it" led to an offer from WMAQ and Garroway settled down in Chicago in late 1939 remaining with foe station as a general announcer until 1942 when he entered foe navy asks if I'm the hairy ape at home And It's a good thing for I don't know what Teas (Mrs Bendix) might say I once played Babe Ruth too but I'm not expected to be a home-run hitter In private life "I think the Impact of TV la surti that people see you In their homes and build up the illusion that your own home life is Just like what they see Fans apparently have identified me so with Riley that they don't know where Bendix begins and Riley ends and they want "The Life of Riley" will be seen Friday nights at 9:30 o'clock on KRIS-TV DAVE GARROWAY As a lieutenant he ran a yeoman school in Honolulu for most of the war At that time Navy personnel were allowed to take hours" Jobs when they finished a work To keep hit hand In Gar- )U TV row ay ran a record program on 4 1 t444 4 row ay ran a record program from the Federal Communications Commission Further Delayed In the meantime further delaying the decision the "intermixture" issue the question of having both ultra high frequency channels and VHF channels in the same area has come up The FCC has been concerned with intermixture striving for a policy that could he worked out nationwide and has let applications for stations in controversial areas go by the board Locally the Issue was raised when KRIS-TV after years of: petitions and hearings before FCC was awarded a construction permit for Channel 6 KVDO-TV operating on UHF requested the FCC to cancel out VHF in this area KRIS received preliminary allocation June 18 1934 the same month that KVDO-TV went on the air The suit for de-intermixture was filed the following October and final approval of KRIS-TV did not come until Dec 7 1955 SO rians Approximately 20 plans for mixing or not mixing VHF and UHF arras have been presented to the FCC including one that would change all territory east of the Mississippi to UHF within 10 years west of the Mississippi to Congratulations KRIS We are proud that you selected a METALIC BUILDING a in which to house your lm-portant transmitter equipment at the Robstown sta- tion! METALIC BUILDING COMPANY 523 Wotr TU2-3252 An important foreign policy speech by President Eisenhower will be telecast by KRIS-TV Friday at 3:30 pm from Baylor commencement exercises at Waoo Dr William White president of Baylor University will introduce President Eisenhower Stevenson Directs Episodes Veteran director Robert Stevenson was a new man when he recently returned to foe "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" set to direct an 'episode after a sabbatical of several weeks English-born and typically English In appearance Stevenson found it hard to get an assignment he had been wishing for for to direct a western He finally won the battle however and did several "Gunsmoke" episodes "But it's good to be back to foil sort of thing" he said pointing to the Hitchcock set of starring Ruth Hussey "It's easier to work when you have variety in your assignments" a local radio station and there began to develop hia now famous intimate and casual style He carried it- back to another record program in Chicago in 1946 and in a matter of days had the whole town talking and listening When television came to Chicago in 1948 Garroway had a half hour slot of network time during which he presented "Garroway at Large" a classic in variety entertainment and a show which might be said to be the first to introduce the camera as a "living eye" for foe audience In 1932 ha came to New York at the behest of Sylvester Weav- Rubber-Base Wall Paint Goes oe eawly with brash or roUsT-drisi SO wtimtM: Matririwg colon for wuodywk hi odotisn DUOO Quick Groucho Reply When Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Frank Swain found himself up before Groucho Marx on foe NBC-TV and Radio You Bet Your Life program he mentioned that he has been sitting on foe bench for more than 25 years' Groucho opined: "Must feel good to stand up again doesn't tt? er Jr President of NBC who was about to introduce another first "Today" foe news and special events program which was to "open up" daytime network television on a big scale He's still at it five days a week THI COLORMART 4099 AYERS DIAL UL2-6566 SituH-Liniiifi WaNpasar Striking "Sports Car" Styling In Terra Cotta and Ivory (Model 17T026) or Bermuda Rronso Finish Model 17T025) Never before a TV so LIGHT with picture so BIG! so BRIGHT! 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