Word: network
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ushered in a six-week run of opera at the Cincinnati Zoo. Busy Fausto Cleva was again conducting. Manager Oscar Hild had got hold of such Metropolitan singers as Bruna Castagna, Carlo Morelli, Leon Rothier, Norman Cordon, John Gurney. Friday operas were to be broadcast over the NBC Blue network...
...continuous program in radio history." We question this in view of the fact that on March 24, 1934, General Petroleum Corp. of California through its advertising agency Smith & Drum, Inc. introduced Mobilgas to the Pacific Coast with a radio program over all stations of the [then] Columbia Don Lee network which ran from 7:30 a.m. until midnight. The first 9½ hours and the last 3½ hours of this broadcast were continuous. Occasional interruptions between 5:00 and 8:30 p.m. were due to precedence of previously contracted transcontinental commercial programs. All this still left a clear uninterrupted...
...interest, nor is the investigation likely to peter out. With plenty of money left out of a $150,000 appropriation last March, the committee this week will turn to the affairs of either Pennroad or Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, next on its list after the old Van Sweringen network...
...uncounted millions of U. S. school children, uncounted thousands of classroom radios were tuned-in in four time zones one day last week to hear what bustling Commissioner John Ward Studebaker of the U. S. Office of Education had arranged as an "ideal commencement program." National Broadcasting contributed a network of some 50 stations. Purpose of this giant mass commencement was not to award diplomas but to hear four commencement speakers of a calibre that rural school boards could not hope to match. Commissioner Studebaker and Secretary of the Interior Ickes were piped through from Washington; Columbia University...
...Washington last week the Interstate Commerce Commission heard with apparent favor Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's plan to acquire direct control of the Erie and Nickel Plate to tighten two loose strands in the old Van Sweringen network. C. & O.'s past connections with another strand, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, meanwhile came under the pained scrutiny of Montana's Senator Wheeler and his committee investigating railroad finance. The evidence provided the Senator with his best illustration to date of how the late exceptional Brothers "Van" dummied their way through deal after deal to get what they wanted in spite...