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Word: closed-circuit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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Theater Network Television is growing as fast as TV itself. Last year's Joe Louis-Lee Savold fight was carried by only nine U.S. theaters in seven cities. Last week 50 theaters in 31 cities packed in more than 125,000 people who paid close to $400,000 to see the closed-circuit telecast of Rocky Marciano's knockout of Joe Walcott. A drive-in theater in Rutherford, N.J., with a capacity of 1,300 cars, was sold out at $10 a car, and 7,000 chairs were set up for the overflow customers who had to park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: A New Kind of TNT | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

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