Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pros & Amateurs. New Yorkers were fed a low-calorie diet of daily news from strange and familiar sources. The city's radio and television stations stepped up coverage, read excerpts from the columnists. On Sunday the Times and NBC sponsored an hourlong, live-television news show that carried Timesmen's reports from New York, Washington and Europe. The Spanish-language El Diario began running two pages of news in English, doubled its press run to 140,000, had to turn away advertising. The National Enquirer, weekly sex-and-gossip sheet, put out an extra issue with some news...
...Perry Como Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Kukla, Ollie and their wonderfully wacky "Kuklapolitan" puppets help Perry retell the tale of the first Christmas. Color...
Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Having already rounded up most of TV, the western will also try to hog-tie Christmas. George Montgomery and wife (Dinah Shore) take the holiday season's first crack at turning Dickens' Christmas Carol into horse opera (see below for a similar effort on G.E. Theater...
...Steve Allen Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Guest (on film) Ingrid Bergman is all sweetness and Guest Jonathan Winters one of the weirdest, wittiest lights shining; Allen himself splits the difference. Color...
After giving out most of their papers to a news hungry audience the editors were interviewed on NBC's weekend radio show, Monitor, and on a local television newscast from NBC's New York outlet, WRCA. Crimeds also left papers at the New York Harvard and Yale clubs, but were not invited to lunch by either organization...