Manuscripts

Informational packets - TV Channels, WEST, YOU

Description: Info packet for "You" / Info packet for WEST. Light blue folder contains memos, form letters and press releases related to the launch of TV Channels magazine, a Sunday supplement of LAT (1960).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: circa 1960 - 1966
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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"Channels"

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items. Materials include: memos and other correspondence related to start up of LAT "Channels" magazine; copy (on legal-sized paper) of AGREEMENT between TV CHANNELS INC., and TIMES-MIRROR COMPANY; (clipped to previous item) pre-publication issue, "TV Channels"; 2 cps. "projected profit and loss report," 7/1/1960; various financial and planning reports from California Rotogravure Co., others; report, "Sunday Revenue Increase Analysis," (on legal-size yellow paper); etc.

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TV Supplement

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Material includes: correspondence with reps of Detroit News, Chicago Sun-Times, and other newspapers, related to costs and other issues involved in start up of a television magazine; 16-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "TV Sunday Supplement - Confidential Study"; 4-pp. financial report, "Estimated costs of proposed TV magazine (printing and paper only for 850,000"; approx. 10 proposals from Pacific Press to Times-Mirror for Weekly Supplements.

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Departments - Editorial - Television Magazine

Manuscripts

5 items. Materials include: copy of article announcing new magazine, "TV Times,", pg. 1, 2/24/1957, "Television-radio weekly magazine to begin next Sunday"; copies of covers for first issue of "TV Times," 1957 (pic of Shelley Fabares) and "TV Channels," 1960 (pic of Fred MacMurray); copy of article announcing "TV Channels," 9/18/1960, "Times' new TV magazine to make debut next Sunday"; Among Ourselves article copy, 9/1960, "Times plans new national TV magazine."

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Sample Television Supplements

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Samples of "TV Magazine (Detroit News), TV Channels (Sunday Herald- CT), TV Guide (national).

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Memos and reports

Manuscripts

40+ items: reports, ad copy, memos and other materials related to the 1984 launch of a new Sunday supplement.

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Promotional Items

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: reports, ad copy, memos and other materials related to the 1984 launch of a new Sunday supplement.

mssLAT

Informational packets - TV Channels, WEST, YOU

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