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Word: cbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same kind of audience which listens to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra on Sunday afternoons, CBS last month tried out a program called The Pursuit of Happiness. For this show, a half-hour of not-too-spangly Americana designed to balance the ugly weight of war news, it collected a star-spangled cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...studio an audience of 600 stamped, shouted, bravoed for two minutes while the show was still on the air, for 15 minutes after. In the next half-hour 150 telephone calls managed to get through CBS's jammed Manhattan switchboard. The Hollywood switchboard was jammed for two hours. In the next few days bales of letters demanded words, music, recordings, another time at bat for Ballad for Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...networks generally restrict these serials to daytime hours, reserving the night air for classier stuff. Recently B-S-H tried to place transcriptions of some of its cheaper CBS and NBC serials, like Stella Dallas, Backstage Wife, etc. on small stations for night-time broadcasting. One prospect was Elliott Roosevelt's 24-station Texas State Network. But when Elliott and Blackett tried to get permission to take transcriptions of the shows off NBC and CBS wires, they got a royal runaround...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Transcontinental | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...CBS Adventures hour Lee and Dannay write a $350 mystery a week. Ellery, represented as a William Powell-style detective by a radiogenic actor named Hugh Marlowe, with a photogenic actress named Marion Shockley as his secretary, Nikki, leads the way through such adventures as those of the Gum-Chewing Millionaire, Napoleon's Razor, George Spelvin's Murderer, The Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Clew of the Busted Hose | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

More piqued than panicked by Radio News's doubletalk, U. S. broadcasters last week agreed that the less said about it the better. For the record, CBS's busy News Chief Paul White commented: "So preposterous that it scarcely merits the dignity of an objection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Talk | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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