Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parran's was to be the fifth of a series of 19 lectures on medical economics which the Rockefeller-sponsored National Advisory Council on Radio in Education is broadcasting over CBS under the general title of "Doctors, Dollars and Disease." The American Medical Association disapproves that series because, if the socialization of medicine which the lecturers advocate ever becomes a reality in the U. S., doctors may some day find themselves the hirelings of Government...
...night last week the CBS audience that habitually listens to "Doctors, Dollars and Disease," tuned in to hear Dr. Parran on "Public Health Needs." Instead they got 15 minutes of orchestra music. Next day a few of them learned why. Dr. Parran had prepared a talk on syphilis. Infantile paralysis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and cancer are diseases which broadcasters frequently discuss over the radio but Columbia Broadcasting drew the line at Dr. Parran's subject. Nonetheless, he appeared at CBS's Manhattan studio to tell the nation about syphilis. Would he alter his prepared text to conform with what...
...formal statement CBS gave its position thus: "Editorial responsibility for what the Columbia Broadcasting System puts out over the air must be assumed, and is assumed, by Columbia itself. In deciding what is proper for us to broadcast, we must always bear in mind that broadcasting reaches persons of widely varying age levels and reaches them in family and social groups of almost every conceivable assortment. For this reason we do not believe that it is either wise or necessary to discuss, and sometimes even to mention, some things which may more properly be discussed in print, where each person...
...SYMPHONY -- The New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra this year has a vivid program of 30 two-hour broadcasts for Sunday afternoon symphony listeners. Presenting distinguished guest artists, the series is under the direction of Otto Klemperor, with Lawrence Gilman, noted critic, as program commontator. (CBS, Sundays...
...Press threatened to throw all CBS program announcements out of the newspapers, hinted darkly at a newspaper lobby potent enough to put Radio under stricter government control. Frightened, CBS talked peace, scrapped its news service. Out of that armistice last February grew Press-Radio Bureau (TIME, Feb. 12). Press-Radio Bureau, maintained by the major news services and the broadcasting chains, prepares two daily five-minute broadcasts of news from AP, UP and INS. Also it is supposed to release flashes of "transcendental" importance as they occur...