Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio's most widely discussed and least heard programs makes its bow this week over a big network. The Author Meets the Critics, after a record-breaking tryout period, will get the full glamor production over NBC. But it will be pretty much the same program that New York audiences have been discussing for six years. Success in the big time is a personal triumph for Author's persevering 32-year-old producer, Martin Stone, who claims: "This thing would have died a long time ago if I hadn't been an amateur...
Stone was summoned to the NBC throne room in Manhattan and told that the show was "great." But the network, afraid to take on a program that was so pointedly "cultural," advised the young lawyer to move the show over to WGY, Schenectady, and experiment with it for a while longer...
...paragraph on the Peabody Award winners in radio [TIME, April 21] was a most misleading little paragraph. . . . Although five of the 14 awards went to programs carried on independent stations, you neither mentioned any of these nor even indicated that such programs had received awards. You cited only the network programs which won awards...
Andrei Gromylco (Mon. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). First scheduled network address by the U.S.S.R.'s No. 1 United Nations delegate...
Beating Out the Figures. The "telephone coincidental" reports are gathered, run through I.B.M. machines, beaten into percentages and published every two weeks in "the pocket piece," a small green booklet that is every huckster's Bible. Every network hour is tabulated and every commercially sponsored program is rated by "points." Example: the 31.1 top mark of Bob Hope in the last Hooperating means that 31.1 out of every hundred persons telephoned while the Hope show was going on told the Hooperaters that they were listening to Hope. People who did not answer the phone were counted as not listening...