Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past two years, CBS has been the front runner in the Color TV sweepstakes. Only two weeks ago, Government bigwigs popped their eyes at a CBS color demonstration in Washington. Cried Colorado's Senator Ed Johnson: "No one who sees color is ever going to be satisfied with ordinary . . . television again...
...last week CBS looked less like a sure thing to win. The Radio Corporation of America (owner of NBC) loudly trumpeted that it too had a new color system. RCA's system is all-electronic, while CBS' is mechanical. RCA claims that its programs can be viewed in all their varicolored splendor on present sets, once they are fitted with a color adapter. Most important, RCA claims that its color telecasts can be received on ordinary sets as a black-and-white image (on ordinary sets, CBS color telecasts are a featureless blurring and streaking...
...CBS, the stretch-running threat of RCA might mean the loss of nine years' work and $3,500,000 in color research. But CBS President Frank Stanton rallied gamely. It is important, said Stanton, "to have color TV come quickly by the best available system . . ." Looking ahead to this month's important hearings before FCC, he added: "CBS color TV has been proved through numerous tests and demonstrations . . . We will look forward to studying similar tests and demonstrations of the latest RCA system...
Year in & year out radio's Mr. Anthony (now displaying his wares on Manhattan's WPIX-TV and WMGM) has been glibly solving the problems of his mumbling, star-crossed clients. Last May, This Is Broadway (Sun. 9 p.m., E.D.T., CBS-TV) opened a rival sideshow for somewhat higher I.Q.s. As an adviser for professional entertainers, Broadway promised to solve the "family worries, romantic entanglements and business troubles of the people who make the world laugh...
...Goldbergs (Fri. 8 p.m., CBS). Fall opening of an old favorite...