The Busy Air

P:The Nielsen ratings of the top ten radio shows seemed to indicate that not much has changed in radio: 1) Jack Benny Show (CBA), 2) Amos 'n' Andy (CBS), 3) People Are Funny (NBC), 4) Our Miss Brooks (CBS) 5) Lux Radio Theater (NBC), 6) My Little Margie (CBS), 7) Dragnet (NBC), 8) FBI in Peace and War (CBS), 9) Bergen and McCarthy (CBS), 10) Groucho Marx (NBC).

P:In Manhattan, station WOR-TV discovered how to survive in an area containing seven competing TV stations. The answer: movies. Showing 59 hours of films a week, WOR is editing the films to suit its viewers. Last week the Italian film My Beautiful Daughter (dubbed-in English dialogue) featured a beauty-contest scene with girls in Bikinis. The scene was cut for "family showing" (9 to 10 p.m.) but restored for the popular late-at-night version (11:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.).

P:In Chicago, ABC News Commentator Paul Harvey stepped off a train from Aberdeen, S. Dak, with a news beat over ribal NBC. On the train, Harvey had got to chatting with Mrs. Marjorie Llewellyn, wife of one of the U.S. flyers imprisoned by Red China. Harvey aired the story of her hopes to visit her husband and also the information that her trip to Chicago from Missoula, Mont., was being paid for by NBC to present Mrs. Llewellyn and her views on Today.

P:In Washington, the new edition of the TV Factbook reported the worldwide progress of television. Items: 1) there are now 137 TV stations in 35 foreign countries compared with 439 in the U.S.; 2) foreign countries boast 6,600,000 TV sets, compared with 34 million in the U.S.

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