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...performances of its members' works. In 1939, some 250 pinched broadcasters, including all the major networks, formed a rival organization, BMI, and the two have been skirmishing ever since. The point currently at issue: Does the broadcasters' control of BMI and large interest in the recording industry (NBC is related to RCA Victor, CBS owns Columbia) lead to discrimination against ASCAP tunes...
...networks' highly competitive efforts to bag big names for TV portraits, CBS gets most of the major beats, e.g., Ed Murrow's interviews with Tito and Chou Enlai, Face the Nation's with Khrushchev. Last week NBC was in hot pursuit of its rival's lead. Hardly before the 121-gun salute to its liberator had stopped reverberating in Tunisia, NBC Commentator Chet Huntley had set up his lights and cameras in the tiled office of popular President Habib ("Beloved") Bourguiba. Wearing a dark Western business suit and a TV-blue shirt, greying, rock-jawed Bourguiba...
...amassed the biggest schedule of one-shot shows in its history: 25 specials for the nighttime slate, at least 48 news and documentary specials for Sunday afternoons. The CBS schedule is so tight that the four Frank Capra-produced Bell Telephone science shows had to move over to NBC. Splashiest of all will probably be The Du Pont Show of the Month, offering ten 90-minute spectaculars: Paul Gregory's Crescendo, a mishmash of American music with Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical...
...NBC will unleash cascades of color and a record-breaking 100 "specials" (the new regime's replacement for Pat Weaver's word "spectacular"), an increase of 15% over last year. The special shows, at least 26 of which will be in color, account for about 117 hours of programing and a whopping $40 million in gross billings. John (Pajama Game) Raitt will join Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun; Van Johnson is set to play The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth...
...missiles to record test data; in the first earth satellite, a tape recorder will read dozens of instruments and transmit the data to earth. Using magnetic tape, giant computers compile payrolls and forecast sales. Entire libraries and millions of legal documents are being tape-recorded. This fall CBS and NBC will replace their kinescopes with tape recorders to rebroadcast TV programs so that they can be shown at the same hour across the U.S. with all the clarity of the live broadcast...