Word: crossleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heyday of vaudeville two types of acts got a percentage of the box office-those that were so uncertain nobody wanted to pay them much, and those that were good enough to draw crowds. Nearest thing radio has to a box office is telephone-polling Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (Crossley) surveys. Comic Cantor's pay, based upon...
...people had given 35 to 75? to get in and watch a freestyle, catch-as-catch-can radio show on a stage representing a hayloft. Station WLS's Barn Dance is a corny five-hour jamboree, radio's longest* and oldest in continuous operation, tops in Crossley ratings in its class. Last week this program, begun a week after Station WLS first took to the air and its mainstay ever since, celebrated its 16th birthday...
Last week the first Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (Crossley) reports for 1940 showed a new king of radio. Jack Benny, a three-time front runner before Charlie came along, was in first place again. In his first month as a half-hour program, Charlie had lost over 1,000,000 listeners. In the same month Jack Benny's chuckly half-hour had picked up an estimated 3.000,000 listeners...