Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special broadcast tonight, the Crimson Network will present a forum on the Food Relief Committee's program, featuring several College veterans recently returned from Vienna, Italy, and France, the areas which will benefit from the new fund-raising drive...
Communist armies gripped Harbin, junction of Manchuria's rail network. Communist guerrillas harried water traffic on the Yangtze and the Grand Canal, roved menacingly near the rail arteries connecting Tientsin, Tsingtao and other ports with inland centers, such as Mukden and Tsinan. Red troops cut off Nanking and Shanghai from western China...
...that the Labor Government had plumped for it, there was not much doubt that BBC's charter would be renewed for five years in January. Yet many Britons were far from reconciled to the dull programming and the monopoly of the state-owned radio network (TIME, July 15). Last week, they had aid and comfort from an unexpected quarter. A wartime (1938-42) director-general of BBC, one-armed Sir Frederick Ogilvie, shook his fist at his old employer in a London Picture Post article. Excerpts...
Four representatives of the University Housing Office in Strauss Hall will be featured tonight on the Yankee Network's "Quiz of Two Cities" in a radio duel of wits against a similar group from Brown University, Providence, R. I. The program will be carried over station WNAC from 8 to 8:30 o'clock...
...been running largely on NBC's left-over programs. Ed Noble had to start almost from scratch. He has done best with his stable of commentators, probably the most popular on the air. Noble has also done well with ABC financially. He has boosted the number of network stations from 168 to 204, the gross network sales from $14,000,000 to $40,000,000. (One reason: in the boom war years ABC has had more time to sell than NBC or Columbia.) Gross profit rose from $9,250 in 1942 to an estimated $2,000,000 this year...