Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is WHCN, the Harvard Crimson Network," the familiar tag line, will no longer serve to identify the College radio station when it resumes operation after the summer vacation, it was decided last night at a full board meeting of the network...
After boiling up over radio's censors, Fred's cup of wrath floods the entire industry. "The scales have not been invented," he says, "fine enough to weigh the grain of sincerity in radio." And, "Everything in radio is as valuable as a butterfly's belch." Network vice presidents are his favorite dish. They are "a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference." Their conferences are "meetings of men who singly can do nothing, but collectively agree that nothing can be done...
...mention of Allen's name, most network executives get a drawn look about the eyes; but over conferential desks, they gleefully repeat this one: "Allen doesn't dislike radio. He just resents having to work all week long for only $20,000." He does indeed, as he once ruefully admitted in seven words that catalogue his complete attitude toward his work: "This drudgery, this sham, this gold mine." Actually, after the tax collectors and the 60 members of his cast are paid off, Allen's gold mine yields him closer to $2,000 a week...
College nightowls will be able to hear Crimson Network programs for an additional hour each night after today, as plans for extension of broadcasting hours from midnight to one o'clock went into effect yesterday...
...program will consist of recorded music with the emphasis on "good hot jazz." A recent Network survey of listeners revealed the many students would like to hear broadcasts after midnight, and WHCN heads, investigating the regular offerings over Boston stations, felt that most were lacking in good programs of recorded music at that hour...