Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons for the shift were many. The black-and-white screen was much larger than the color one, which is restricted in its size by the necessity for the whirling disc. The color was not particularly good, and somehow black-and-white seemed perfectly natural for a football game--perhaps because of many years of newsreels...
Before The Great Caruso appeared in a theater, 100,000 albums of the operatic numbers used in the picture had been sold. The sale was doubtless helped by Lanza's technique of plugging his records and films like a disc jockey from the concert stage-an unorthodox practice that pains some traditionalists even more than his habit of acknowledging applause with the overhead handclasp of a prizefighter. Yet no one quite foresaw what a hit the movie would be. Some of MGM's top brass took a gloomy view on the theory that the U.S. public would...
Allen's rise to TV stardom has been rapid. Until one year ago he was best known as a disc jockey in Los Angeles. There he built up a faithful following for his midnight radio show and, by popular demand, dispensed more chatter than records. His fans included workers in Hollywood's film industry, and, because of comments from them (Groucho Marx: "the freshest and most promising thing I've seen in radio in a long time"), CBS began to take notice...
...Sarnoff. So far this year, RCA stock has risen from 16⅜ to 21½, CBS fallen from 33 to 25½. This trend is the more remarkable because six months ago RCA was apparently caught flat-footed when the Federal Communications Commission decided to license the CBS "whirling disc" system for commercial broadcasting. RCA promised a much better system, one that existing TV sets would receive in black & wnite (unlike the CBS method) without any change in the sets. But the color RCA showed FCC last fall was mushy and CBS's was clear. FCC decided...
Rayburn & Finch Show (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS) belongs in the radio comic tradition established years ago by such zany funnymen as the late Colonel Stoopnagle. After five years as Manhattan disc jockeys, Rayburn & Finch have come to their unsponsored network show with a handful of records, a good deal of acerbic humor and a better-than-usual collection of puns. Starting off with a fictitious award called a "Ludwig," from a fictitious radio & TV magazine called See Hear!, the comics go on to rib educational shows with "Science Speaks," a program designed to "push back the frontiers of science-right...