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mm Si m mmimmn Hmm- Qa'MT ^^'"'^^**PP^'i^1^1 ^^^^nailsot Congress, ^ITJ ^^^elsewherein the nation's capital, /%^%^vitallyinfluenceslocalcommunitylite, very often as directly and immediately as theworkingsofmunicipalgovernment. For this reason, the five CBS Owned television stations—Channel 2 in New York, Los An- geles, Chicago; Channel 10 in Philadelphia and Channel 4 in St. Louis—have estab- lished theirownWashington News Bureau. To bring the citizens of five major popula- tioncenters direct news reports of the latest happeningson theWashington scenewhich specifically relate to theircommunities. The Washington News Bureau, with its full-time sight-and-sound facilities ready to capture important news on-the-spot, is the latest exampleof the CBSOwnedtelevision stations' continued pioneeringof new ways toexpandthedimensionsoflocaltelevision. Andthustoprovidebetter,moremeaningful service to fivemajorU. S. communities. CBS TELEVISION STATIONS adivision OFCOLUMBIABROADCASTINGSYSTEM,INC.,OPERATING WCBS-TVNEWYORK,KNXTLOSANGELES,WBBM-TVCHICAGO, VVCAU-TVPHILADELPHIAANDKMOX-TVST.LOUIS. Scanned from the collections of The Library of Congress AUDIO-VISUALCONSERVATION ai The LIBRARY -rCONGRESS Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation www.loc.gov/avconservation IVIotion Picture and Television Reading Room www.loc.gov/rr/mopic Recorded Sound Reference Center www.loc.gov/rr/record * ^ '^<^ iilMMlli Lli I till ;*.'«. "**"n^ •' : %:-jf§!i^^Wm: * ^^^ •WS^4^^ ,^^^ RADIO THEINTERNATIONALNEWSPAPEROF THEBROADCASTINGINDUSTRY Yearbook of Radio & Television Twenty-seventh Annual Edition 1964 AUDIO NEWS NEWSPICTURES ; NEWSflLi _^l SERVICE 1^ tkt^^ \ ( JJnitBd nternational ^? oreword ^vfiC; rnWENTY-SEVEN YEARS — is a long time in broad- -^ casting -and, after 27 years, it would seem im- possible to find some new thought to key this foreword to the YEARBOOK OF RADIO AND TELEVISION. Yet, the executive who directs the destiny of one of the leading broadcasting companies supplied one in dis- cussing the industry's standard reference volume: "I like to caU it my million-dollar treasury of facts," he observed, adding: "I may be a little low in the evalua- tion by a million or two." TTE EXPLAINED that if the YEARBOOK were ---^ nonexistent, the industry would find it necessary to create it. The cost of research and compilation spanning 27 years would soar into seven figures. mHIS MUCH we who work on the YEARBOOK— ^ — day in, day out do know: It is in many respects the distillation of more than two decades of earlier endeavor, not to mention publishing experience. rpHUS, there is no substitute and there never can be -^ one. rpo ALL those whose unstinting efforts are repre- -*- sented in this 27th edition go our deep appreciation and thanks for a job well done. CHAS. A. ALICOATE Editor-in-Chief How to tell all sides of this story in '64... News frequently has a way of happening when and where you least expect it. The question is, how to be everywhere at once. The answer is AP. No matter what it is orwhere it breaks, you know you'll get it fast, accurate and with complete objectivity when you take it from AP. From Muleshoe to Moscow—from local weather to world news—every AP member boasts the world's biggest, best qualified news staff. Ssitnrocnege1r84w8i,ththeivserAyPnequwalAiPtymsetomrbyehra—sinncelvuedrincghoavnegred2.50It0jursatdiokeaenpds growing smtro^nger and television stationswhowon'tsettlefor lessthan best. /4i THE ASSOCIATED PRESS