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...first he had ever made to the city, Newhouse paid $6,250,000 in cash for the 103-year-old St. Louis Globe-Democrat (daily circ. 291,962, Sunday 354,354). With St. Louis' only morning paper Newhouse also got a 23% interest in radio-TV station KWK (whose $1,500,000 indebtedness he assumed). The seller was E. (for Edward) Lansing Ray, whose family has owned the daily for three generations. Publisher Ray sold out because he is 70, has no qualified heir to take over the paper...
...broadcast of last Friday night, Miss Thompson sounded as if she were itching to get her fingers in Hitler's hair. When Commentator Thompson was just getting warmed up, the first important application of U. S. radio's self-imposed censorship code occurred. St. Louis' KWK cut Miss Thompson off the air. Said KWK's president, Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson was expressing some personal opinions, and it does not seem . . . in view of the N. A. B. code, that...
Also he tied up long-term contracts with Guy Earl's station KNX in Hollywood, Stanley Hubbard's KSTP in St. Paul. From a slowstart, Transradio rolled up many a potent client-the Michigan Network, the Yankee Network in New England, WLS in Chicago, KWK in St. Louis...
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