Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrated gaming booths of NBC's Twenty One last week rocked under a rhubarb that had even the head croupiers puzzled. Playing their sixth tie game in four weeks, at a husky $3,500 a point, Greenwich Village Artist Jim Snodgrass, 34, and Medical Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden, 28, both answered correctly a ten-point question on European royalty, then went for the tough eleven-pointer: Name the five groups of bones in the human spinal column (see diagram). A onetime pre-med student, Snodgrass began with a noun, "sacrum," was ruled out by M.C. Jack Barry, whose answer...
Within minutes, NBC was being bombarded with calls and wires, mostly from doctors who protested that Bloomgarden had also given a noun, "coccyx," instead of the adjective "coccygeal." Either both contestants were right or both were wrong. Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica admitted to an inconsistency in the quiz answers that they had approved for the show. Barry and Co-Producer Dan Enright put heads together, agreed that both contestants had missed, and called for a rematch-again at $3,500 a point-next week (Mon. 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Although Bloomgarden must relinquish claim on last week...
...panel shows have kept invitations and entreaties flowing to the Kremlin. Once, CBS's Face the Nation thought it had won the game, and got ready to televise Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov. But Molotov suddenly reneged, agreed to go on only if questions were submitted in advance. NBC's Meet the Press and ABC's Press Conference ran into the same insistence on canned questions. All three persisted, and for one of them it paid...
When Caesar and NBC split last week, it was the comedian who forced it. The network wanted to put him into four or five spectaculars next season. Unwilling to settle for anything less than his full schedule, Caesar invoked a loophole to cancel the NBC contract that guaranteed him $100,000 a year for another seven years...
...Larger Crisis. Caesar's departure from NBC is symptomatic of a crisis affecting not only comedians but the TV industry at large. While production costs have climbed, the number of the nation's TV sets has been leveling off, and the size of the audience that any show can command has been cut down by the growing competition of the fast-rising ABC network and independent stations. Thus, advertisers will have to pay more to reach a given number of viewers in the future. It is making them nervous, safe-playing, and eager for "the sure thing." This...