Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumble of kettledrums and a flourish of flags, TV moved into the fall season. Curiously, the week's best drama was a 2,400-year-old Greek tragedy. Jean Anouilh's version of Sophocles' Antigone was given a striking, modern-day adaptation by Worthington Miner on NBC's experiment-happy Kaiser Aluminum Hour. As Creon, Claude Rains was a fine old despot, and once even squeezed out a real tear. But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan. In the title role of the girl trying to bury...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Onions in the Stew, with Constance Bennett...
...would boost himself right out of a job. As president. Pat Weaver's career was as spectacular as the TV "spectaculars" he invented-which were sometimes spectacular flops. He experimented relentlessly and volubly with new ideas (Wide, Wide World; Monitor; Today; etc.) that got good critical notices, but NBC's total billings were dragging their heels. As chairman of the board, Weaver was supposed to "work as a team" with new President Robert Sarnoff (TIME, Dec. 19). But he soon discovered that his part of the teamwork gave him a lot of spare time for balancing exercises...
...immediate future. Weaver planned to sit back and "look at TV with an open mind, evaluate what I have done for NBC." Actually. Weaver has every reason to sit back for a while: he got a $200,000-plus settlement, but if he goes to work for a rival network before July 1, 1957, he must forfeit about one-fourth...
Just before Sarnoff took over as president. NBC had no TV shows in the top ten Trendex ratings, while CBS had nine. Sarnoff was determined to cut away at the TV fabric Weaver had woven, go after more so-called "bread-and-butter" programs. This month NBC has only two (sixth place and a tie for tenth) shows in the top ten. But TV ratings aside, rival network officials concede that Bob Sarnoff is a better administrator than Weaver, who had a penchant for endless interoffice memos. During Sarnoff's first six months in office, NBC...