Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will share Saturday's Jackie Gleason hour with filmed editions of old Jimmy Durante shows. The newest hillbilly darling, Jimmy Dean, will continue his weekday morning show and also move into CBS's "new talent spot" on Saturday night at 10:30-a bonus for having clobbered NBC's Today in the ratings. TV's best drama factory, Playhouse 90, will replay only the shows it originally did on film, all of them poor. The one CBS experiment will be Monday night's Studio One Summer Theater, a sort of summer-stock version...
...learn this bit of information, and much more, Suchmann has had just about a month. It was at the beginning of May that Henry Salomon, Jr. '39, head of NBC's "Project...
...completely at a loss to understand TIME'S (and NBC's) puzzlement over Sid Caesar's current predicament [May 27]. Your paragraphs about "overexposure" were so much wasted space. Other comedians have cried the blues about TV, have floundered and failed. Sid alone has gone on year after year getting better all the time. There is nothing mysterious whatever about Lawrence Welk getting the higher rating; the higher the art form, the smaller its TV audience. STEVE ALLEN New York City...
...other networks, and even some executives at CBS itself, were not reacting as Crosby hoped. Said one official: "A terrible mistake. This is the kind of thing that makes criticism suspect. Any time he pans a show on NBC or ABC, somebody is sure to say: 'What do you expect, he's on the CBS payroll.' And bending over backward isn't a proper posture for a critic either...
There were a few other troublesome implications. How will Crosby's paper get critical coverage of Omnibus and Wide Wide World, which NBC will alternate weekly at a time overlapping Performer Crosby's appearances for CBS? "That hadn't occurred to me," says Crosby. "I'd hate to miss Omnibus, but maybe I could see it once a month when Ed Murrow will have our time on CBS." How will Crosby's readers get critical coverage of Seven Lively Arts, one of the new season's major shows? Well, Crosby thinks...