Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such an atmosphere, fixing was epidemic. On CBS, testified a network spokesman, Dotto went crooked. So did For Love or Money (whose "dancing decimal machine" was rigged to chisel down the contestants' possible winnings). After a contestant reported he had been fed an answer, CBS even began to investigate The $64,000 Challenge (which was owned by a packaging firm controlled by CBS-TV President Lou Cowan). The network chucked all three shows between August 1958 and last January. But it has continued to ride with Name That Tune, though it publicly admits that some contestants are asked...
...Deception Is of Value." As the confessions kept coming, the networks took the position that they had been deceived along with the public. "A breach of public faith!" thundered NBC. "This deception strikes at the integrity of the networks," echoed CBS. (Dan Enright did not agree. Said he: "A degree of deception is of considerable value in producing shows.") But the networks could not deny that they had been less than thorough in investigating the charges when they were first made; even as late as last October, when NBC took over Dan Enright's and M.C. Jack Barry...
...Manhattan TV critics (the World-Telegram's Harriet Van Horne and the Journal-American's Jack O'Brian) headlined their views identically: THE BIG PARTY is A BIG BORE. Fresh out of quiz programs to sponsor, Revlon this year is betting on 15 biweekly CBS variety shows, each to be laboriously dressed up to look like a party thrown by show folk for one another. Host of last week's opening brawl (in a make-believe Waldorf duplex) was Movie Idol Rock Hudson, who a few years ago inspired the title for a comedy called Will...
Five nights a week, around dinnertime, the TV sets in some 3,916,000 U.S. homes* are tuned to a 15-minute news program, NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report. Although CBS's Doug Edwards commands a slightly larger audience, no other television newscast has collected more major awards (seven in all) or has tried Report's distinctive formula: two newscasters of equal rank, working from different cities as a team...
...heart attack; in Rome. Lanza quarreled capriciously with his Hollywood benefactors, was sued for $5,000,000 by M-G-M for refusing to appear in The Student Prince. His voice already showing tarnish, he allowed an earlier recording to be dubbed in when he sang on a 1954 CBS-TV show. He sought refuge in a sybaritic style of life, fought a battle against the overweight that ultimately led to his death...