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Word: nbc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the hour, NBC switchboards throughout the country were jammed with frantic phone calls from children wanting verification of the news. Next day, the Chicago Sun-Times, which had had its share of calls, headlined: "Children: Santa Has NOT Been Shot." Penitent NBC prefaced its next day's News of the World with an interview, over a "special super-radio circuit," between Commentator Morgan Beatty in Houston and Santa Claus at the North Pole. Said Santa, reassuringly: "John L. Lewis just missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Exaggerated Report | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...whiling away the slow Monday evenings at Chicago's Blackhawk Restaurant by dishing out a line of folksy chatter to the customers. Out of such primitive horseplay grew his College of Musical Knowledge, a corny radio perennial which was transplanted last week to television (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC-TV). Jake La Motta v. Robert Villemain from Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). James Stewart in Call North-side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Boston Symphony (Sat. 6 p.m., NBC-TV). Leonard Bernstein, conducting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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