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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week CBS looked less like a sure thing to win. The Radio Corporation of America (owner of NBC) loudly trumpeted that it too had a new color system. RCA's system is all-electronic, while CBS' is mechanical. RCA claims that its programs can be viewed in all their varicolored splendor on present sets, once they are fitted with a color adapter. Most important, RCA claims that its color telecasts can be received on ordinary sets as a black-and-white image (on ordinary sets, CBS color telecasts are a featureless blurring and streaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Color on the Way | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...radio industry exploded into instant insurrection. ABC (Stop the Music and twelve other giveaways) was apparently elected to carry the ball. At week's end, while NBC and Mutual retired behind the breastworks of "No comment," ABC let fly a ringing announcement: "No changes will be made in ABC programs as a result of the FCC regulations. We feel certain that...injunctive relief will be granted to the radio industry...as a result of litigation which ABC will begin immediately." CBS announced it would join in seeking court review of the ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Chance | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Davis Cup Finals (Fri. 2 p.m., NBC-TV). U.S. v. Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

University Theater (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, with David Niven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...NBC Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Première of Don Gillis' The Man Who Invented Music, a fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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