Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor of the other candidates-Democrat Incumbent Richard J. Daley and Republican Timothy P. Sheehan. The FCC agreed, ruled that Daly had time coming. Rather than contest the decision, most stations grudgingly put Lar ("America First") Daly (for legalized gambling, against public schools) on the air. WBBM-TV, the CBS station in Chicago, was one which chose to fight. It fired a petition to Washington, asking the FCC to reverse itself...
...regular news broadcasts-as the FCC had applied it in the Daly case. During the Chicago campaign, the station admitted, it had used film clips of Candidate Sheehan (e.g., filing his petition for nomination) and Mayor Daley (e.g., greeting Argentine President Frondizi) on scheduled newscasts, but as legitimate news. CBS President Frank Stanton, longtime foe of Section 315, pointed out that giving equal time on newscasts would make a farce of radio and television coverage of political news, thereby dealing a serious blow to the principle of freedom of the press. Said Stanton: "[The Daly decision] attempts to substitute...
High Adventure with Lowell Thomas (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The modern Halliburton's latest 3,500-mile safari from the Bahrein Islands to Zanzibar with son and camera...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A Trip to Paradise: the hard way of a teen age boy (Burt Brinckerhoff) through a world full of delinquents and beatniks...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The story of radar...