Download your 2 for 1 Pizza Express voucher
Would you like full access to over 7 million historical articles from The Times?
Want more information? Read our FAQs.
This text has been scanned from the printed page using an automated process called Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The text will in many cases not be 100 per cent accurate. Older articles tend to have very inaccurate readings, because of archaic typefaces and spellings and damaged source material.
$7M. Colour Tv Deal With U.S. FROM OUR BROAUCASTING REPORTER Brandishing a cheque for $2m. Mr. Lew Grade, managing director of Asso- ciated Television, yesterday announced another colour television progranune sale to the United States, and delivered a withering attack on the projected B.B.C. 2 colour service. He said that in a three-day trip to America last week he had sold about S7m. worth of colour programmes, which with luck would turn out to be worth SlOm. Worldwidc sales for this year would be more than $15m. For the first time, Mr. Grade said, a British show would start in the autumn in America instead of being used to replace American shows that failed. This would be The Prisoner, a new show starring Patrick McGoohan, the secret agent of Danger Man, which the Columbia Broad- casting System was scheduling for Septem- ber, 1967. He had also sold four two-hour dramas, one starring Peter O'Toole, and a secret documentary which the American Broad- casting Company would show. Mfr. Grade said it would be a " disastrous failure " if colour television was intro- duced only on the B.B.C. Who would buy sets just to see B.B.C. programmes? he asked rhetorically, for who had bought them to see B.B.C. programmes before Independent television was introduced ? Commenit in Business World, page 15. $7M. COLOUR TV DEAL WITH U.S.
Contact our advertising team for advertising and sponsorship in Times Online, The Times and The Sunday Times, or place your advertisement.
Times Online Services: Dating | Jobs | Property Search | Used Cars | Holidays | Births, Marriages, Deaths | Subscriptions | E-paper
News International associated websites: Milkround
Copyright 2010 Times Newspapers Ltd.
This service is provided on Times Newspapers' standard Terms and Conditions. Please read our Privacy Policy.To inquire about a licence to reproduce material from Times Online, The Times or The Sunday Times, click here.This website is published by a member of the News International Group. News International Limited, 1 Virginia St, London E98 1XY, is the holding company for the News International group and is registered in England No 81701. VAT number GB 243 8054 69.