Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From 8 p.m. on, a third network, ABC, entered the struggle for Sunday night listeners. With the freehanded giveaway show Stop the Music (19.2%) and Walter Winchell (who currently leads the field with the top Hooper of 29.7%), ABC has clearly distanced its older rivals. Hardest hit in the percentage battle is bag-eyed Fred Allen, who dropped below CBS's Adventures of Sam Spade, as well as ABC's Stop the Music...
...corrective, the Justice Department demanded that Western Electric be: 1) divorced from A.T. & T. and split into three independent companies; and 2) required to license its patents to all applicants. There was no demand that A.T. & T. change its operating network...
Yesterday WHRV officials stated that the F.C.C. had no jurisdiction over the Crimson Network because WHRV sends its programs over the University electric wires. It also insisted that WHDH must have used microphones in the chambers to get its recordings. This statement contradicted Rowell's reason for allowing WHDH permission to record...
...soldiers, Mathilde Carre was on the loose in Paris just after the German conquest. She was young, attractive, divorced, and she found it all too easy to have a good time. An ex-captain of the Polish army got her into the Réseau Interallié, an important network of the Franco-British underground. This Pole, a handsome man named Roman Czerniawsky, had been an intelligence officer. With Mathilde's brilliant help, he was soon feeding the British war office valuable information on the German order of battle. Mathilde was the network's cryptographer. Her fervently admiring...
This week, network TV made the big jump from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. American Telephone & Telegraph officially opened coaxial cables between Philadelphia and Cleveland. It is now possible for a show to be telecast simultaneously over the area from Boston to Milwaukee to St. Louis and Richmond...