Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Werth was not permitted to file his story until Radio Moscow broadcast it. That put the -whole world press ahead of Werth's weekly paper (it has no connection with the daily London Times'), which had to wait five full days before printing his "scoop...
...with five trial recordings of Christy Lynch's voice. He played them for Howard Barlow, an NBC conductor, and Barlow, in turn, played the records over long-distance telephone for Firestone officials in Akron, Ohio. Practically instantaneous result: a one-year contract with Firestone for Lynch to broadcast on alternate Mondays...
...capital X, reached a new high last night as six College students used their phone techniques (strictly from Adam Lazonga) to vie for the dubious honor of dates with three sweet young things who hail from an adjacent college. The setting was the crimson Network's 9 o'clock broadcast of its new program, "Wolf Calls...
...years, Crossley aides thumbed through telephone directories, called subscribers at random, asked them what program, if any, they were listening to. By this method, C.A.B. tried to estimate the number of telephone subscribers tuned in to any show. No attempt was made to learn what they thought of the broadcast. The fact of listening was enough. Soon, "Crossleys" were used as defense for programs good & bad. But even top stars like Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen worried more about their "Crossleys" than their hairlines...
...Pearson & Allen petition put FCC on a hot seat it had warmed for others. Last spring, FCC's now famous "Blue Book" (TIME, March 18) threatened to revoke broadcasting licenses of stations that preferred commercials to programs. As a glaring example, it cited Hearst's Baltimore station, WBAL, which once broadcast 507 spot commercials in a single week. That is the station Drew and Bob want...