Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Play Your Hunch (NBC) pits a pair of husband-and-wife teams against each other in an outright guessing game. The brain twisters include such pithy problems as which of three baby pictures is that of Jayne Mansfield, or who of three turbaned men is bald. Televiewers who play the right hunch will soon guess which knob is marked...
With school out, a scholarly, wide-eyed NBC trainee was down in Washington rubbing notebooks with the swift, sure newshands on the White House beat. The apprentice: TV Quiz Winner ($129,000) and Columbia University Instructor Charles Van Doren. His first report: "It's a little frightening...
Last week, as Carter's files describing the outward calm of revolution's aftermath started to flow out of Baghdad, his rivals were still scrambling to get into Iraq as best they could. Correspondent Daniel F. Gilmore and Photographer Dieter Hespe of United Press International, and NBC's Tom Streithorst, hired a Beirut taxi to drive them the 620 miles between Beirut and Baghdad. When their driver quit at the Syrian border, they hitched a ride on a Syrian potato truck, got another taxi in Damascus. They bought off suspicious Lebanese rebels with cigarettes and bottles...
Across the nation, network TV stations had shrugged off the summer doldrums to come alive in the Middle East crisis. They had sacrificed fat revenues from sponsored shows to cover the U.N. debates, speaker by speaker. Such popular programs as CBS's The Verdict Is Yours, NBC's Dragnet and ABC's Andy Williams Show were cut off or canceled outright. Expensive evening hours were given over to news analysis...
...frequently, those who approved did not phone. With the field left to themselves, the complainants gave network program directors a discouraging view of the audience they strive to please. "We just plain don't care to hear or read about the mess," wrote a Texan to NBC. Added a CBS fan: "What good does it do to make so many of us give up the only pleasures we have-our daily TV programs? Besides, it creates unrest and worry to thousands...