Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown-up quiz program outgrew the lonely forenoon and joined the busy night air last week. A rising chorus of fan mail persuaded BBC and the Blue network to shift their Transatlantic Quiz from Saturday mornings to 10 p.m. Tuesdays (E.W.T.), and to boost the show from 15 minutes to a solid half hour. In its new spot Transatlantic will compete with Bob Hope-but the audience appeal is hardly the same...
Recording six days a week in Los Angeles, Martha Wilkerson uses the aeronym, "G.I. Jill." Her transcriptions, flown out in six-day batches by A.F.R.S., are tenderly passed from one mosquito network to the next. The show also goes by short wave to Europe, Africa, Australia, the Aleutians, and war zones between and beyond. For good reason her closing line is: "Good morning to some of you, good afternoon to some more of you, and to the rest of you-good night...
Ingram was not impressed. Few days later he repeated his warning over the Blue Network on the MARCH OF TIME program. He sounded like a man who thought he knew what he was talking about...
Last week, at a Manhattan show, General Electric showed how to supply the demand: a ''Copper Man" so cunningly contrived that it gets hot & cold just like a human being. This copperplated robot has a network of electric wires which, like a human being's blood system, keeps its skin at body temperature. Its life-size frame, painted black, radiates the equivalent of body heat, and the temperature of various parts of its body can be regulated to duplicate any human condition; e.g., cold feet...
...comedian who had been on the air only eight times in five years took a firm grasp on a network mike last week-as the star of his own Danny Kaye Show (CBS, Sat., 8-8:30p.m,, E.W.T...