Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NBC was not limiting itself, said Trammell, to buying up a few expensive shows "for this season at the expense of the future." That other network, he noted, had had to borrow $5,000,000 to bring off its coups. And besides, radio couldn't be "satisfied indefinitely with the same material, the same performers, and the same programs." But NBC was nonetheless glad to be keeping some of its own: Fibber McGee & Molly, Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Bob Hope, "Duffy's Tavern." Trammell had also thrown together, he revealed, 30 fresh programs, which will employ such well...
Then Trammell's executive vice president, Charles R. Denny, let go with what sounded almost like a declaration of war. NBC was going to stay on top as the nation's No. 1 network. Said he: "It has the money and the resources to back up [its] plans. And, above all, it has the resolve to use its money, its experience, and its every effort for that purpose...
...other knickknacks of television, TV fans love vaudeville. TV has brought it all back-from trained dogs to baggy-pants comics. Some of it is as drearily old-hat as the Keith circuit in 1912. But there are glittering exceptions. The hour-long Admiral Broadway Revue (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC-TV & Du Mont) is an example of good vaudeville...
...NBC Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Haydn, Mendelssohn and Weber. Conductor: Toscanini...
Eddie Condon Floor Show (Sat. 8:30 p.m., NBC-TV). Dixieland jazz...