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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...
Along with star-grabbing, ABC is also fielding such top-drawer dramatic programs as Cavalcade of America (in its new television dress), The Kraft Theater, The U.S. Steel Hour (The Theatre Guild of the Air, converted to TV from NBC radio). And all this, boasts Kintner, is just the beginning. Other ABC plans...
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...
...reporting and writing soon won him an offer from North American Newspaper Alliance to do a column. His four-year partnership with Robert Kintner, capped by their American White Paper (TIME, April 29, 1940), ended with the war. In the course of a hectic service career Joe served under Chennault, became a young China hand, was interned by the Japanese at Hong Kong. There he made the most of the six months he waited for repatriation by learning to read the Analects of Confucius in the original...