Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, toothy John J. Noone, a Washington postal clerk, set about wooing Lady Luck in a scientific sort of way. Forming a syndicate with seven relatives and friends (each was assessed $5), Noone made repeated trips to Manhattan in the hope of being chosen a contestant on the CBS giveaway program Hit the Jackpot. Last April the lightning struck; Noone won prizes grandiloquently announced as worth...
Hardest hit were the networks, which have poured the most money into TV and reaped the least profit. This year CBS has made $500,000 less than it did in the first half of 1948. Du Mont's books have a reddish tinge and ABC, which can least afford it, is losing most of all. NBC does not release a balance sheet, but it is no exception. Of 76 TV stations in the U.S., only six claimed to be breaking even or making money. Manhattan's WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, dropped...
Last week, NBC (which had lost almost all of its comedy line-up to raiding CBS) launched a female counterattack with The Ethel Merman Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). The program's tenuous story line has dark, bouncy, 41-year-old Ethel Merman, ably assisted by ex-Juvenile Star Leon Janney, trying to sell a new revue to a somnolent backer-Homer Tubbs, the Syracuse floor-mop king...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS). "The Mind of Primitive...
...Music (Mon. 6:15 p.m.. CBS). First of a five-day series on "everything from bebop to longhair." Guest: Artie Shaw...