Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circle of Hollywood and Manhattan partygoers, few know the 35-year-old, balding, blinking radio writer whose hobby is poking fun at Tin Pan Alley. But last week, Abe agreed that his stuff was too good to keep. He began a $3,000-a-week job writing a new CBS comedy show (Holiday & Co.) on which he will air some of his songs. He has also teamed up with Publisher Bennett (Try and Stop Me) Cerf to put them in book form and he has accepted an offer from Decca to record his burlesques of the June-moon school...
...clearly-and colorfully-the most notable television demonstration of the year. In CBS's Manhattan studio, Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, 39-year-old, Hungarian-born inventor of color television, unveiled equipment developed since V-J day. For an hour, an ingenious new receiving set was tuned in on a filmed fashion show and football game, a Disney color short. The broadcast was over ultra-high frequency, radar wave lengths. The reception, as vivid as a Van Gogh painting, made black-&-white television look antiquated. Boasted CBS: "the insurmountable obstacles" have been hurdled; in a year, if the demand...
Since it began, four months ago, Request Performance (CBS, Sun., 9-9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) has attracted new listeners by presenting famous people in the act of doing something out of character. At the request of its unseen audience, the show has had Charles Laughton giving Donald Duck elocution lessons, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Lauritz Melchior singing One Meatball, Edward Everett Horton mimicking Frank Sinatra, and spud-nosed W.C. Fields delivering a temperance lecture and drinking water (Fields: "Odd-looking stuff, isn't it? Don't they at least put an olive or a cherry...
Last week CBS proudly announced that Procter & Gamble, one of the first and biggest buyers of soap-opera time, had renewed four oldtimers: Ma Perkins, now in its 13th year; Road of Life (ninth year); Life Can Be Beautiful (eighth year); Young Dr. Malone (seventh year...
...radiomen knew they were indeed approaching what Boss Petrillo considers normalcy. They were not badly worried: the loss will make no financial difference, since all foreign musical programs were carried on a sustaining basis. It would stop only two major shows: Atlantic Spotlight, on NBC, and Transatlantic Call on CBS. When NAB suggested that the order might stop Christmas and Easter broadcasts from the Vatican and Jerusalem, Caesar Petrillo exploded. Said he: "We've never stopped religious programs at any time...