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Moment of Truth (NBC 1965 serial)

After over 3 years something new for Moment of Truth!
IN DECEMBER 1964 a new television soap opera called "Moment of Truth" made its debut with á big splash. The NBC television network in the United States proclaimed a firm 26 -week purchase of the Canadian made series, and almost immediately announced the program was sold right out to network affiliate stations. The sale was hailed as a quarter -million dollar Christmas gift to Canadian talent. It was applauded by Canadian commercial producers and advertisers as the icebreaker for future Canadian independent production efforts. An agency TV buyer was quoted as saying, "The day has arrived when our obligation to sponsor Canadian content programming can be considered positively rather than negatively." That was the story up till Christmas 1964.
Then on December 28 the CBC network started airing Moment half -an -hour daily five days a week. Before long the daytime serial was doing well as a network spot carrier. In fact there was only one thing wrong with Moment's success story - Robert Lawrence Productions (Canada) Limited, the show's Toronto -based producer, apparently wasn't making a dime on it. And to be more exact about it, John Ross, RLP president, claimed all indications pointed to a highly measurable loss. Why? With all those sales shouldn't Moment have been strutting like a fat -cat? It seems not.
And one of the reasons for the grotesque situation wasn't complicated at all - it's just that the CBC wasn't paying for the show. The Corporation apparently intends to, starting April 1, and will pay up in terms Ross calls satisfactory and generous. But Ross says, "Even if the CBC had bought it from the beginning, we couldn't produce it for that." Evidently the only hope for a reasonable profit on Moment lies in renewal of the existing 26 -week NBC contract and an extended CBC run. The amortization of pilot costs and heavy initial production expenses takes that long, in Ross' view.
FOCUS ON PROBLEMS
One of the vital jobs Moment of Truth has done is to focus a glaring light on problems facing independent television producers in Canada. RLP'S "success" has dragged the question of any independent's ability to go it alone on major TV productions and make money, out of the area of speculation. It has plunked the issue on firm ground, for once. Ross says an independent can't make it independently, period. He considers subsidization "absolutely essential". (If the CBC buys a show at a price higher than potential commercial revenues, that's a form of subsidization. The Corporation regularly aids Canadian talent by producing shows at costs of $50,000 an hour and up, selling them to commercial sponsors at a fraction of true cost.)
It was back in May 1964 that RLP "put it on the line, crossed its fingers" and gambled $30,000 to produce a pilot for Moment. After selling the show to NBC Ross noted, "It's amusing in a way, because the odds are so greatly stacked against you." Before long RLP moved toward what it felt to be the next logical step for a Canadian -made, Canadian talent show - airing on the CBC. As it happened, the only way RLP could get the program on the national network was "under an arrangement whereby we participated in the network's portion of ad revenue," says Ross. (He believes the Corporation takes half the network spot dollars. Local stations get the other half.) RLP's sales representative, All -Canada Radio & Television Ltd., pressed the CBC to buy the program. But it was no dice. Ross feels authority in the Corporation was spread too thin (before the CBC's recent executive realignment), so no one was in position to make a decision. "They all liked Moment of Truth," he says. But they figured I suppose that with the total number of dollars they had to spend, they didn't want to spend it on daytime television." RLP contended daytime shouldn't be discounted. "The CBC's final comment when I was there (at a meeting in Ottawa) was 'We have no money'. I didn't believe them at the time, but now they've made it public I guess it must be true," Ross adds.
RLP's target in the CBC talks was hung on a figure of approximately $7500 for each episode of Moment. (Ross believed $7500 was about the lowest figure the CBC could spend producing a half hour of its own.) Scaled down to allow for Moment being daytime TV, and not high -Canadian -culture ("I've never said our show was like the Second Coming, or fabulous or wonderful," Ross insists), $7500 became a take-off point in RLP's thinking.' Ross felt, and still believes that the CBC shouldn't be called on to back every program idea dreamed up by independent producers - "The program has to be something more than self-indulgence."
COMMERCIAL WITH A BIG C "I'm in the commercial business with a big C", he says. "Everything has to be considered ing the ground of quality -level suitable for national broadcast, he explains. "You can apply this test to Moment of Truth because it's stood the test of a foreign sale," he continues. "And you should be able to ask the CBC to support you if the program has stood the test elsewhere." He thinks RLP took on its fair share of risk by getting the program produced, sold and on the air, making it possible for RLP to turn to the CBC with a proved -out product. "At no time did we ask the Corporation to gamble with us. At no time did the taxpayer have to gamble. "The CBC could at least have indicated interest in supporting us," he states. (The Corporation has pledged support, from April 1 as noted above.) But what happened to the prediction that the Canadian obligation to sponsor Canadian content programming could now be considered positively?
RLP's lengthy struggle for support of its Canadian talent opus leaves John Ross in some doubt. In fact he admits expressing his misgivings to a US producer who wondered if there was any future for an independent producer wanting to develop something up here. What have they done for you on this show, except criticize?" is the way the American put it.
AGONY OF UNCERTAINTY
Asked if his negotiations with the CBC have been satisfactory Ross replies, "Of course not," although the dickering seems to have led at last to an acceptable financial arrangement. Ross believes if others are to escape RLP's agony of uncertainty, "the first thing the CBC has to clarify, not only for Robert Lawrence Productions but for everybody, is its attitude, They've got to define it." The question in Ross' mind is, "Do they want independent Canadian production or not?" As an afterthought he adds, "The NBC, CBS and ABC networks have made a great success of their businesses by producing as little as possible themselves." Stuart MacKay, principal figure in All -Canada's negotiations on behalf of RLP, says, "We've been trying to see it half -way," and get the CBC to do the same. "In the beginning they told us - 'Look here, we don't have any money. Are you prepared to gamble with the Corporation?" MacKay concludes, "That's not a solid base for a production house."

By Paul Raven · 1 hour ago1 hr
Guiding Light Discussion Thread

That was 'Fantasies'
That movie's awful. It would be interesting to see the ratings on it--if that was an experiment, then I assume it failed, because I can't recall any other movies tie ins being made.

Ben appeared in a few episodes prior to The Cradle Will Fall airing to cross promote.
The problem was trying to shoehorn the GL characters into the plot of a successful novel.
Had they used a script tailored to include GL characters or adapted a book that leant itself better to incorporating the soap characters things might have been different.
However The Cradle Will fall was a ratings success airing in the final week of May sweeps and finishing at #15 for the week with a 15.5/25 rating considering it was up against a repeat of The Enforcer which ranked #8 17.6/29 and Three's Company #10 17.3/28.

By Paul Raven · 2 hours ago2 hr
BTG: April 2026 Discussion Thread

At one point today, while declining to take Kat's money to purchase a partnership interest in the Baltimore law firm, Alex Alegria demonstrated his "acting skills" by clenching his fists tightly without ever changing his facial expression. I honestly can't recall ever seeing such an awkward actor on television before.
Vanessa really seemed whorish and desperate today when she sat there like a blonde gargoyle watching her "date" disparage Beautiful Nicole (who's supposedly her best friend) at the dinner table, then followed him back to the Golden Corral Casino and basically told him, "I love my children and my friends, but I love you even more even though I know you're a criminal."

By Broderick · 2 hours ago2 hr
Ladies of London

I know ya'll take up for Mark in this thread but Margo won this round. She said you want to play with me? Lets play. I dont like her but i respect that she confronted him on his cattiness head on and all he could do is laugh and downplay his mess instead of owning it. He's a confessional gangster and has alot of smoke there but not to someone's face which makes him a punk

Whoa these two fighting came out of nowhere. Martha was not holding back. I didnt expect to see kimi crying but that had me laughing bc this was all so ridiculous

By Cheap21 · 2 hours ago2 hr
Bravo's The Real Housewives of....

Rhode Island

We have a winner! The premiere was so good and this is a hit. I think I like all of them but Alicia (confirmed MAGA) and Jo-Ellen. I think Jo is a good villian and good for the show but she is so damn messy and a mean girl. No surprise she did not get maternal love from her mother and grandmother and alot of women that dont end up being mean girls to adults when they become adults. She needs therapy

Early faves? Liza aka our cast drunk, Kelsey and Nosey Rosie. I think Rulla joins tomorrow and she gonna. be a whole damn mess

By Cheap21 · 2 hours ago2 hr
BTG: April 2026 Discussion Thread

Softcore gay oil wrestler Marty West!

By Vee · 2 hours ago2 hr
MyNetworkTv's Telenovela Experiment (2006-2007)

I'd never heard of this show. You have sitcom royalty, fading standups, has-beens, soap actors...and Scott Hamilton.

By DRW50 · 3 hours ago3 hr
MyNetworkTv's Telenovela Experiment (2006-2007)

WTF is Uncle Phil is doing there, lol!?
Thanks, @DRW50 , for sharing!

By Khan · 3 hours ago3 hr
MyNetworkTv's Telenovela Experiment (2006-2007)

Saints & Sinners mentioned as the show Scott Bailey is on. I guess this was MyNetworkTV's attempt at promotion.
Jury Duty - BMW race car (2007) - YouTube

By DRW50 · 3 hours ago3 hr
Soap Hoppers: The Soap Actors And Roles Thread

@slick jones This doesn't seem to be listed on Scott Bailey's IMDB. He was in an least one episode of this odd court/celebrity hybrid called Jury Dury.
Catherine Oxenberg and Christopher Maleki are in other episodes on that channel (they were also credited in IMDB).
Jury Duty - BMW race car (2007)

By DRW50 · 3 hours ago3 hr

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