Word: kintner
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This week ABC's President Robert E. Kintner, 44 (who teamed with Pundit Joseph Alsop in writing a prewar Washington column), totted up the results to date, found ABC's television business (in sponsor billings) to be 51% better than a year ago, and its radio business 15% up over 1952. "Star power" did the trick, Kintner says. Early in its new life, the network decided to brighten up its TV by going out for big entertainers. Vice President Robert M. Weitman, a Broadway-wise showman who turned Manhattan's Paramount Theater into a mint by combining...
Back Door. He will form a new company, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc., to boss the combine, with himself as president. Noble will be chairman of the finance committee; ABC's President Robert E. Kintner, onetime newspaper columnist (Alsop & Kintner), will head the company's ABC division. Paramount will swap its common and preferred stock for ABC's common at a ratio placing a value of $14.70 on each ABC share (last week's market price: $13). ABC will then have 16% of the new company's common stock; Noble will hold 9%. CBS, which...
...entertainer . . . reported to be a dear and close associate of the traitors to our country." Shocked by what he had read of Gypsy in Red Channels (a printed listing of 151 alleged Communist sympathizers and sponsors of front organizations), American Legionnaire Ed Clamage wired ABC's President Robert Kintner a question: What did Kintner intend to do about What Makes You Tick? (Sat. 9 p.m.), a new ABC show starring Miss Lee? Kintner, in reply, demanded proof that Gypsy was a Communist. The only "proof" damage could offer was Red Channels...