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...National Broadcasting Co. two weeks after his resignation as president of American Broadcasting Co. (TIME, Oct. 29). In order not to forfeit a chunk of his $300,000 severance check from ABC, Kintner will not start his new job until Jan. 1. He will try to improve and expand NBC's color programs in hopes of boosting the lagging sales of color TV sets (TIME...
Even so, by the time the General Assembly called the first emergency special session in its eleven-year history, it was clear that the Times's caustic judgment had roweled both NBC and CBS into at least limited action (ABC pre-empted only one half-hour show the entire evening). The national chains carried spotty U.N. pickups all evening, but when Secretary Dulles appealed to the world for support, ABC was preoccupied with The Lone Ranger, NBC with Guy Lombardo and CBS with Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. (But CBS did carry the late session until closing...
Parlor Carnival. "When the chips were down, the networks lived in their narrow, narrow world" of crass commercialism, cried Critic Gould, who appealed to NBC Boss David Sarnoff, CBS Chairman Bill Paley and ABC President Leonard Goldenson to "search their consciences" and "have a long hard look at their operations...
...networks tossed off quick rebuttals: ABC's News Boss John Daly felt that the U.N. story "vitally needs editing" before it reaches the public. Though it made no effort to explain the absence of live U.N. pickups, NBC detailed the amount of TV coverage given the Middle East crisis on spot news slots-43 minutes, 15 seconds-which Gould pooh-poohed: "When vital history was being made, NBC video was fascinated by Queen for a Day in Hollywood...
Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). With Bob Hope, Yvonne de Carlo...