Word: network
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This program, slightly toned down, Chase & Sanborn brought to its listeners over a coast-to-coast network, with commercial plugs by breathless Graham McNamee. An obvious "natural" for the mass audience, the Good Will Court was given approval by a parade of politicians led by New York's Governor Lehman and New Jersey's Governor Hoffman. The lower court judges and retired magistrates who served received $250 each, "for charity." An endless stream of stammering unfortunates appeared to feed its microphones. Not too sure they liked the idea, but reluctant to cross a good client, National Broadcasting...
...Alva Allred, carrying Minnie in a wire-fronted box. Holding the cage before the microphone, Manager Allred poked a small piece of insulated wire through a hole in the box top, tenderly prodded Minnie's belly. As the visible audience of 400 listened raptly, out over a national network went faint, wavering chirps and trills. It sounded as much like a cricket as like a canary, but that Minnie really sang there was no doubt. After the broadcast a cage was fashioned of glass and cardboard, its bottom strewn with strips of cloth and paper for mousy nesting. Press...
...free time either to fill in the broadcasting day or in the hope that they may catch the ear of some advertiser. National Broadcasting Co. last year devoted 4,095 hours, most of them sustaining, to "educational purposes" and this year expects to contribute 4.360 hours, 44% of the network's total broadcasting time. Sample NBC programs: "Your English." a diction course called "Magic of Speech." a weekly half- hour donated to the National Congress of Parents & Teachers, a Music Appreciation Hour conducted by Walter Damrosch. NBC also furnishes an hour a week to "America's Town Meeting...
...measured in statistics. For 25 years he traveled with Hilly Sunday, the evangelist. He covered 700,000 miles of the grwdust trail, performance in 450 different localities, led 100,000,000 people song. He knows over 500 songs. Showing no of tiring, he is now heard over a radio network and community sing program. Through radio, he believes he has added another, 110,000,000 people to the who have lifted their voices in song under his arms and exhortation...
Noted as having the longest skiing season in New England, Mount Mansfield at Stowe, Vermont, now boasts nearly 40 miles of trails. Forming a network about the mountain the trails include such well known runs as Nosedive and Chinclip. Trails for all types of skiers from expert to novice have been laid out by the C.C.C. under the guidance of local ski clubs...