ABC-TV will become the first network in recent years to program feature films if current negotiations with Eliot Hyman's Associated Artists Productions for a package of approximately 40 first-run features are successfully concluded.

I Spy was first TV series to star a black actor, Bill Cosby, who became one of industry's most popular stars. ... In the 7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. prime-time slot, ABC-TV went in this season with six shows with black people in starring or ...

ABC, of course, did not program as many shows last season as did the other two webs. ... NEW YORK — Three sponsors are now set for the ABC-TV "Circus" series, Thursdays, 8-9 p.m., leaving one quarter-hour to sell.

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General Mills is pulling out of ABC-TV's Friday night 7:30-8 p.m. time slot at the end of this summer when its Stu Erwin show shifts to Thursday 8:30-9 p.m. for Liggett & Myers. It was thought previously that General Mills would retain ...

Dodge has bought the American National Theater Academy program, starting October 1, 7:30 to 8 p.m. thru Ruthrauff & Ryan. This will have the program follow ABC- TV's Paul Whiteman stanza. Philco has bought the first half of Don McNeil's ...

Firestone Puts Recap on Old TV Program NEW YORK — Reportedly at the "suggestion" of ABC-TV, Firestone Tire & Rubber is experimenting with a basic revamp of the format of the veteran "Voice of Firestone" series in the Monday 9-9:30 p.m. ...

He continued, "This power, it seems clear, spills over simple distribution of entertainment to engulf production of programs, building of scenery and tie-ups of talent." NEW YORK — Off the increasing list of ABC-TV shows going co-op is ...

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Gale Storm 5 'DADDY' DEBUT A SMASH SUCCESS Bolger, Topper' Place and Show as New Entries to Net Film; ABC-TV Hits Mark takeably has made its mark last season on video audiences, for it can boast of the two top new shows in the film ...