Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal statement CBS gave its position thus: "Editorial responsibility for what the Columbia Broadcasting System puts out over the air must be assumed, and is assumed, by Columbia itself. In deciding what is proper for us to broadcast, we must always bear in mind that broadcasting reaches persons of widely varying age levels and reaches them in family and social groups of almost every conceivable assortment. For this reason we do not believe that it is either wise or necessary to discuss, and sometimes even to mention, some things which may more properly be discussed in print, where each person...
Retorted a thoroughly vexed New York Health Commissioner: "A hopeful view of relief from this dangerous malady might be more welcome to the half million persons in the United States who acquire this disease each year than the veiled obscenity permitted by Columbia in the vaudeville acts of certain of their commercial programs...
Melon. "This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. The advertisers who pay for the programs you listen to morning, noon and night bought more time on the world's largest single broadcasting chain in October than in any previous month of our history. We billed them $1,700,000, which was 56% more than in October last year. And in the first ten months of the year we billed our customers for more than $11,000,000 worth of time-a 55% increase over the same period of last year...
...That may not mean much to members of the radio audience but it means a lot to us, particularly to our president, William Samuel Paley. Bill Paley is not only the man who built up Columbia from a losing proposition with 16 stations to a highly profitable coast-to-coast system with 102 stations. Bill Paley is our largest stockholder...
...know the story of how Bill Paley at 28 sold out a one-half interest in Columbia to Paramount-Publix for $5,000,000. and then when Paramount was pinched for cash generously bought it back for the original sum plus...