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0-19 (Rev. 1-25-61) Alle By Lawrence Fe ont ABOUT THE only thing nedy’s first live TV and radio press confer- : ence was the | time. The American Re- search Bu- reau_ esti- mates that the average ‘audience f a live pliiogram at 6 pim. (earlier ir) the Central, Mountain and Pacific Time: Zones) is about 16 million. The C. E. Hooper research organiza- tion in New York City esti- mates that 6 to 7 million ra- dio sets are ordinarily in use at 6 p. m. Presidentiat Press Secre- tary Pierre Salinger prom- ises the conferences will be held at other times. This leaves only one danger for the President, that peculiar ‘TV malady called over- exposure. If one appears on the box too often, all re- search indicates, he wears out his public acceptance. Lauren “The ntouchables” has been “honored as the “most 63 FEBS Radie-ond Television that could have been im-. proved at President Ken- - fe ae & PROGRAMS: | stimulating Gag Subject of . ce A centr tnt 1960” by the’ National As- [ sociation of Gagwriters. Cer- | tainly, such an honor is de- served, considering how many have gagged at the phony brutality of the se- ries . .. Red Skelton, recu- perating from an operation for a diaphramatic hernia, is expected to return to his Tuesday night program, late in February ... Hal March, | rather inactive ‘in TV since © the unhappy history of “The $64,000 Question,” is report- ed in line for the job as hos}; | of a night time version of! “Concentration.” . .. In thd, current issue of TV Guidey Richard Gehman writes: “In person, Bobby Darin is fully as offensive as he is in pub- lic.” This is the kind of pub- licity that made millionaires of Liberace and Elvis Pres- Jey ... WMAL-TV and. WMAL-Radio ‘begin broad- | casting editorials next Mon- | day, Another recent addi- tion to the broadcast-editor- | ial ranks is radio station WFAX. Earlier editorial- izers were WWDC, WTOP and WTOP-TV and WAVA ... Nat Allbright now has a daily . (8:10 @. m.) sports program on WPIK ... A special showing of the “CBS Reports” fiim, '“Har- vest of Shame,” will be held auditorium of the new Sen- ate Office Building. Mem- : bers of the Congress are in- vited. Lee Coney will repre- sent the CBS Television Network. James L. Hymes Jr., pro- . fessor of education and . chairman of the childhood education department at the - University of. Maryland, will Development I” on WTOP- . TV and WMAR-TV in Baiti- more, beginning Feb. 7. Hymes is a mild-mannered _ man with an air of calm authority which inspires con- , 3 196 t dence and he shoulg attract, teach a course in “Human. ~ TT, Press Conference Hour Is Going to Be Flexible:: Evan eles /y fn ectaree audience of parents and teachers. The ‘first series is con- ecentrated on the behavior and development of chil-- _dren, from birth to the age of 6 years. It will be tele- cast Tuesdays and Thursdays ‘at 6:30 a.m. LATEST DEVELOPMENT in the continuing changes at CBS News is to make the sports department a separate unit of the CBS-TV Network. William C. MacPhail, son of Leland S. (Larry) MacPhail, has been appointed Vice President of CBS-T'V Sports, reporting directly to the net- work President. Monday in the ground Son, REC- 58 Fy 92549— NOT RE@QRBES 7 JAN 81 igp: coment See re Se See Tolson A Pn Belmont Callahan Conrad McGuire . Rosen Trotter \ Tele. ail Ingram Gandy mnaink\out . ALADDIN, «—Jserence Welk’s violinist, has a fea- tured role with Nick Adams in a forthcoming episode of “The Rebel.” ... The cast recording of Phil Silvers’ new Broadway musical. “Do Re Mi,” will be broadcast Saturday (0 a. m.) on WGMS... John T. Madigan, a George Washington Uni- versity alumnus and one-time reporter for the Washington Daily News, has been named ABC Director of News and Public Affairs. This is the first appointment of Jam Cc. Hagerty, ABC Vice Pregj- dent in Charge of New Special Events and Publi Affairs. /* yp The Washington Post enafi-/ Times Herald The Washington Daily News — The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American ew York Mirror _________ New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times :. “Phe Worker -, The New Leader The Wall Street Journal -Date . ..