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...bringing most of its quiz shows to NBC ("And I'm not ashamed of it") reflected little of television's potential magic. The same witness chair had been occupied for four days by a tawdry succession of fixers and schlockmeisters, corrupters and corrupted (see above). Bob Kintner had gone to Washington with the difficult task of showing that 1) NBC had done everything that could be reasonably expected to prevent or detect fraud on the quiz shows, and 2) the quiz scandals did not reflect a sickness in other areas of television. In 3½ hours of testimony...
...Kintner said, in effect, that there was nothing wrong with television that a little vigilance and a few ex-FBI men could not take care of. He embodied TV's spirit of business as usual and business above...
Belated Recognition. Kintner began by giving NBC's official chronology of the Twenty One affair. When Herbert Stempel made his first charges that the show was crooked in September 1957, NBC officials did not report the matter to Kintner or Board Chairman Robert W. Sarnoff, but took Producer Dan Enright's assurance that Stempel was lying. A year later, when the Stempel charges finally broke in the press, NBC still took the word of Producer Enright and his partner, Jack Barry, relying largely on their "excellent reputation"; Kintner was not asked and did not tell the committee that...
...Then Kintner added the remarkable claim that NBC had got its "first established evidence of quiz-show rigging" only through the Washington hearings, and that he had not known about any kind of rigging until mid-August...
Committee Counsel Robert W. Lishman: In that respect, Mr. Kintner, I would like to call your attention to an article which appeared in TIME Magazine April 22, 1957, more than a year before this time. The opening sentence indicates its tenor: "Are the quiz shows rigged?" It points out with reference to a number of quiz shows that there was a great deal of suspicion. It concludes: "The producers seem to be able to control virtually everything except their own fears of losing their audience...