Word: hookups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week a Christmas Eve audience watched the world premiere of Amahl and the Night Visitors on the largest TV hookup (35 stations) that NBC has ever strung together for opera. Like most Menotti works, Amahl is a one-man show-music, libretto and stage direction by the composer. The story is a simple Menotti mixture of melodrama and pathos, with more than enough invention to fill out 50 minutes...
Bolles expressed regret that several stations had been taken out of the Harvard hookup, especially because it meant a $15,000 cut in fees from the National Broadcasting Company, the telecast...
...Unsponsored programs, produced by northwest Germany's network NWDR (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk) and telecast six to ten hours a week, will be supported by set owners, who will pay about $1.19 a month to the city. Next step in Germany's TV expansion: a Hamburg-Berlin hookup...
When Illinois' Senator Douglas was informed that petitions were being circulated to put him in the Oregon race against Truman, he sent a wire asking his friends to desist. Then Douglas tried for a 100% no. On a nationwide radio hookup, he said: "I will have to do the Sherman* and say that I would not run if nominated, I would not serve if elected . . . and I am no more a candidate for the vice presidency than I am for the presidency...
...Budapest got its first big boost during the war, when its Sunday-morning concerts from the Library of Congress were broadcast over a national hookup. The broadcasts led to more recital dates-and a big demand for records. The Budapest had made recordings in Europe. "But, my goodness," says Cellist Schneider, "the United States! It sells three or four times as many recordings as the whole world combined." Long-playing records ("just perfect for chamber music") have quadrupled the sale of the Budapest's music...