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3 it is an Does it follow that/^K^ indication of a' f,heavy*f one of these scripts that he would not ???????a hotel (Hank Kovell, oh, I'm sorry) Course not, Hank, any we have no interest at all in protraying/of the legitimate businessman of this community as being anything but t^at. We'd be damned foils if we did* Harvey. Harvey Biederieh* What about script approval? Xt seems to me that we requested this'before and were told that it would be impossible to submit each script* Well, let me tell you why, Harvey* We have had a long history of "no script approval" by No. 1 sponsors -~ that has been a custom in the industry that all scripts and most producer companies found themselves with the burden of having to submit to a sponsor* Synopsis of the stories they were about to tei: then when they get. thru with that my& get them into stript form scripts before prior to shooting zm& then finally viewing rough^ cuts of the film the sponsor's representative an ing them approved then* "Phat was an owner's practice that developed in the business from the fact that the beginning of tv there were'nt a lot of reliable, reputable companies with a long history of or long reputation* , Let's put it that way. So, therefore, that grew up* When we added the tv buslnea one of our standards was that when we indicated we m>uld do a certain kind of a show if by any chance we didn't live up or fulfill our obligations outlines we set up we would pay for the film ourselves and would not have to be aired, therefore, it Kfefput a burden $& ?╟÷ a moral burden on us to live up to the standards &$ that we set for ourselves ?╟÷* in other words **** being a self-censored and in addition to that *?╜** I know this isn't quite your area but I'm getting to it, ihe every network has a censorship committee known as the continuity acceptance dept* and ABC's we have a very good working relationship with* Let us just take violence ?╟÷?? if we come somewhere and we have a