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Show tv comm mmeimta try From The Gab Bag i by Dick Hughes Noticed any image KSL-TV jecting lately? If so, it may be due to KSL's new program director Fred Oppenheimer, a Chicogoan. Station manager Arch Madsen hired Oppenheimer recently to H 0 10 10 10 10 II ' 124 i 12 2 . 4 t 2 I 3 20 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 3 f3 5 4 3 d changes in the (CBS) is pro- correct KSLs previous help or lack of it. Having met image, and liked Mr. Oppenheimer and KSL s . problems discussed with him in a confidential briefly tone of voice, I am not about to blab those problems to you. Lets just hope Oppenheimer succeeds. Whether he does or not will be up to you, the viewers. If you see and like a change in KSL, write and tell old Arch about it. The stations address is in the Salt Lake phone book. If you dont like what you see, write about that too, but send all those letters to Mr. Oppenheimer, hed probably appreciate reading them before his boss does. And if television serves no other purpose in our lives, it may replace newspapers, according to recent speculation. There would be this black box attached to your television set. Following the early morning prayer, which would probably be in hopes this gimmick works, youd leave the set on and go to will get to bee the wire service girlie pictures also. But more likely it will mean an end to such pictures and that will take all the fun out of being a newsman. Which explains why the black box idea is failing in Japan where it is already being tried. According to a weekly U.S. news magazine the experiment isnt working because the print and pictures dont come out clearly. Naturally. The reason is Japanese newsare sabotaging the papermen transmitting system, not to save their newspapers but to save their heritage of collecting girlie pictures. Three cheers for the bed. Through the night an electronic impulse would scan a roll of newsprint in the black box, printing the news on the newsprint paper which would come out of the black box and pile up on top of your television set to await you in the morning. The impulse would print words and pictures in the same manner the wire services transmit pictures to newspapers across the In city rooms nation today. a receiver (a large everywhere black box) stands around with a roll of paper inside which unwinds when the machine is on. Through electronics a pattern of black and white tones is printed on the rnll of paper, creating pictures. The boys in the city rooms always put all the pictures of scantily clad girls, of which the wire services have an abundance somehow, into a desk drawer. This is the most widely used reference file in any newsroom. Long hours are spent comparing the contents of this file with the rather dull pictures ofthe President of the United States which have to be printed in the paper. I only learned Personally, about all this through hearsay. But if television's little black box succeeds, perhaps you all Japanese press. Last week you may have noticed HOLLYWOOD dateline on this column. That was not just some cheap journalistic trick to glamourize this column. It was an expensive one. At immense cost to his liver, this reporter his gone to Hollywood to bring you the real live story of the stars and their pogroms, or proa grams. Ahead of you, readers, lies: where Carol Burnett is going to live next and why not, howColeen Gray collects red worms (for her garden), what Ben Gazzara does with his cigar when hes through smoking it and dozens of other intimate and Equally revolting details about the people who make more money than you do. Also keep your bifocals cleaned and handy for a look at Mission Impossible, Star The Green Hornet, Trek," T.H.E. Cat (which stands for a mans name, Thomas Hewlett Edgar Cat, I believe they spell it) and a luncheon interview with Agent 99, Barbara Felden, who reminds me of Brown Pickering, remember her? I didnt think you would. Youre all so fickle. pre-seas- on ' G 12 |