Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, March 26 ADVENTURES AT THE JADE SEA (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* William Holden narrates as an expedition of fellow conservationists and photographers visit the shores of Lake Rudolf in Kenya "to witness a way of life earmarked for extinction as the inev itable outcome of conflict between civ ilized and primitive...
...that peace is just around the corner. The South Vietnamese government well knows that this kind of thing works with some Americans, and they seem to spare no effort in pressing the point. For example, during an award ceremony for the Fifth Vietnamese Military Division, which was reported on CBS Evening News on February 3, President Thieu gave a speech in English (mind you, a speech in English to an audience of Vietnamese soldiers) in which he said "During the last few days we have killed more of the communists than during the Tet Mau Than offensive . . . we will continue...
Next to impersonations of Ed Sullivan, perhaps the most predictable feature of network television in recent years has been the outburst of yet another feud between the Smothers Brothers and the men in CBS's program-practices division. Otherwise known as censors, these men regularly delete what they consider to be the most offensive cracks from the Sunday evening Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. With equal regularity, the brothers threaten to quit. Last week, after a prolonged dispute over several parts of the March 9 program, CBS bounced the entire show and substituted a two-month-old rerun. The network...
Producer Tommy Smothers vowed that unless CBS eased up on censorship, he and Dickie would leave the network -only this time the boys sounded serious. Tommy maintains that CBS deliberately harassed him by requesting so many relaunderings of the show that it could not possibly have been completed on schedule; the censors, he claims, demanded that several lines be snipped as late as 2 p.m. on Friday, only 20 minutes before the closed-circuit broadcast. "We are not crying wolf," says Tommy, as usual speaking Dickie's mind as well as his own. "We have threatened to give...
...week's end, CBS confirmed that it plans to go ahead with the Smothers show in the fall season. The network will most likely yield to some of Tom my's complaints, especially since Tommy insists that he would rather quit than fight the censors. "I'm speaking up be cause there's something greater than my feelings involved here. CBS opened the door for us to do this kind of show, and now it looks like they're trying to close it. If they are renewing us, it's not because they want...