Word: nbc
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...UPPSALA (NBC, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). Secretary-General of the World Council of Churches Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, in conversation with Edwin Newman, previews the Fourth Assembly of the Council, which will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, July 4 through...
...could well be into first-run movies, opera or theater from Manhattan and sports events that are blacked out in some communities. All of this would add up to another anathema of the broadcast industry-pay television. But broadcasters know a snow-free screen when they see it. CBS, NBC and such large station groups as Cox, Westinghouse, Time-Life and Storer have all moved into the CATV business. As a consequence, about 30% of the nation's operating cable systems are owned by conventional broadcasters...
Summer is the time for reruns - intentional or otherwise. Last week, NBC presented "the most unusual and exciting competitive pageant in America," but alas, it still looked like all those other un-unusual and unexciting pageants that parade across the screen this time of the year. There again was the line of dimpled sweet young things, gowns aglitter with sequins, hair piled high and smiles frozen in place from hours of practice before the mirror. There was the usual Congeniality Award and the inevitable quiz to test "poise, conciseness, speech and intelligence" (Host Mike Douglas: "Suzanne, what do you think...
...show was called the National College Queen Pageant, which is not to be confused with NBC's Junior Miss Pageant or CBS's Miss Teen-age America Pageant or ABC's Miss Teen International Pageant. This season, with ten girlie galas scheduled by the networks and dozens more by local stations, the College Queen Pageant might possibly be remembered for two slight distinctions. First, the new queen, Valerie Dickerson, 21, from San Jose State College in California, was the only Negro among the 50 contestants. Second, the show is sponsored by the Best Foods Division of Corn...
...individual conferences with producers and writers to discuss specific measures to de-emphasize violence in programs now in production." ABC President Leonard Goldenson disclosed that his network, too, was in the throes of reappraisal; he also designated a vice president, James Hagerty, as liaison man to the violence commission. NBC also weighed in with a lofty statement and a pledge of cooperation to the commission...