Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final announcement of the formation of an Ivy League radio network, with member stations at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania came yesterday from Princeton's station WPRU...
...television as a potential rival, to be watched warily, were now hustling to make special movies for television. Paramount Pictures was out in front. Already owner of two stations, it was planning to film television programs (plays, quiz programs, etc.) and distribute them over a coast-to-coast "celluloid network...
...line formed for television licenses. Recently, twelve new applications were made in a single day. In all, 19 stations are now operating in 12 cities, and 82 have construction permits in 51 cities; 93 applications are being investigated, and 64 more are pending. At the moment, NBC, with a network of five stations and 26 more scheduled to open by year's end, topped the heap. But it was hard put to it to stay there...
...color system, was busily making up for lost time. He was hustling to finish two studios in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal building, at an estimated cost of $700,000. He said the studios would be the "nation's largest television studio plant." CBS, which has a network of four stations, also bought 33% interest in Madison Square Garden Corp. to strengthen its franchise on big sports events...
...interior of the U.S. was still dark to Pan American. Over two years ago, after domestic airlines began flying some of Pan Am's once exclusive foreign routes, Pan Am asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for a domestic network to link the main terminals of its globe-girdling routes...