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Martin Block Show (weekdays 2:35 p.m., ABC radio) brings to the. network a disk jockey who has dominated the Manhattan field for the past 18 years on station WNEW's Make-Believe Ballroom. Veteran Block, 50, has made few changes in his format for a national audience: there are still the same chatty introductions to records, interviews with musicians and singers, and such features as all-request shows, "Past-Year Favorites" and "Stars of Tomorrow." Block has not yet captured a single sponsor for his network program but when he does, ABC promises that he "can earn over...
Dubois: The Seven Last Words of Christ (Boston Chorale, organ and soloists conducted by Willis Page; Cook). A major effort by a minor 19th century composer. The disk is notable chiefly for its remarkable sound reproduction, some stirring choral singing, and the beautiful soprano voice of Margo Stagliano. Available in binaural recording...
Known Problems. The set-manufacturing industry has been trying to bring color along as carefully as possible, and no one wants to rush into production without first testing the ground ahead. Three years ago, when FCC approved CBS's whirling-disk system of color TV, the industry shied away because it was noncompatible, i.e., it couldn't be seen on black & white sets. Manufacturers refused to make sets, and CBS was glad to drop the project when the Korean war put restrictions on color-set manufacture. The industry set up a National Television System Committee headed by General...
Peter Potter Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV) requires a group of pop-music experts, e.g., Johnnie Ray, Jack Haley, Harry James, to estimate the hit potentials of new records. The proceedings are dominated by Disk Jockey Peter Potter, whose special brand of sugary archness is sometimes topped by the coy commercials for Hazel Bishop lipstick...
...Nashville, 450 hillbilly disk jockeys, meeting to celebrate the 28th anniversary of radio's Grand Ole Opry, predicted that "country music" will eventually replace jazz. Explained California's John Banks: "When I started broadcasting seven years ago. there wasn't a hillbilly disk jockey within wagon-greasing distance. Now they're everywhere. It's what the people want...