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■ 1 ♦ ♦ Nineteen Pro Grid Games Slated for TV Next Fall PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 13 UP. —A schedule of approximately 19 National Football league games, reaching into territories which previously had no reception, will be televised Coast- j to-Coast by Westinghouse Electric Corporation next fall. Westinghouse and NFL commissioner 1 Bert Bell announced the TV program i today. The "live" games will be carried ] over the DuMont network on Satur- 1 days and Sundays during the season. I J. M. McKibbin, Westinghouse vice- 1 president of consumer products, estimated the network cost at ,347,000, j including sums which will be paid to , the member teams of the league. j Bell, joining with Westinghouse in ] the announcement, said the overall ] program represented individual agree- ] ments between the NFL teams and the sponsor, and not a league contract. The telecasts in cities which have ] NFL teams will be governed by the i 75-mile blackout area now observed, j Bell announced. When member teams ; are playing at home, there will be no ] game televised into that city on the playing date. ]
