Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Brahms's Symphony No. 4, Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3, Debussy's La Mer. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...
Transcribed shows had Big Radio-NBC and CBS-worried. Big Radio's power has always rested chiefly on its near-monopoly of famous entertainers. Last fall, Bing Crosby fled the fold. He recorded his weekly show, sold it to 208 ABC stations-and over the head of at least one big network to some of its member stations. Total Crosby stations: 400. The advantages: Bing can record the show any time he likes, can edit it before it reaches the air. If other big names followed Bing's lead, the big networks might lose control of their affiliates...
This week, 14 George Foster Peabody Awards (radio's annual "Oscars") were handed out. The chief winners: ABC's Comic Henry Morgan, CBS's Columbia Workshop, NBC's Orchestras of the Nation and CBS's Invitation to Music, Mutual's Meet the Press, ABC's broadcast of John Hersey's Hiroshima, the New York Herald Tribune's radio columnist, John Crosby. Awards for "outstanding reporting and interpretation of the news" went to Commentator William L. Shirer and the Columbia Broadcasting System-which recently (TIME, March 31) dropped Shirer's program...
...Books (Sat. 4:45 p.m., CBS). Quincy Howe reviews the new one-volume edition of A. J. Toynbee's A Study of History (TIME, March...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Silvestre Revueltas' Sensemayá, Dvorak's "New World" Symphony. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...