Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crooning Cowboy Gene Autry makes an estimated $2,000,000 a year from his movies, radio show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS), commercial enterprises and personal appearances. Last week he happily admitted that he was getting another $500 a week just to stay off TV. As an option on his TV services, it is worth it to Wrigley's, his radio sponsor. Drawled Autry: "I figure I've got the best deal in television...
...Logan's outcry raised echoes which were rumbling throughout the U.S. last week. In the Midwest, even individual TV stations joined the crusade. Walter J. Damm, general manager of Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV, which had already turned down NBC's Lights Out and CBS's Suspense, and called for a nationwide cleanup, said that? "the time has come for independent TV stations to take positive action about the whodunits." In St. Louis, General Manager George M. Burbach of KSD-TV said that he had been deluging NBC for months with "our objections to gory programs...
...years on radio, Easy Aces won some fanatically enthusiastic fans (including Comic Fred Allen and Humorist James Thurber), but it never climbed into the Hooperating Top Ten or struck most network executives as hilariously funny. When Goodman Ace, 50, was fired two years ago by CBS, a sympathetic vice president tried to soften the blow by saying : "I'll tell you a secret-we haven't got a man who understands comedy." Ace replied: "I'll tell you a secret-that's no secret...
Suspense (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS). Lana Turner in The Flame Blue Glove...
Hallmark Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). Wedding Morning, with Robert Walker...