Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy Mr. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York's cocky little ex-mayor, crowed a sharp warning to his advertising sponsor, Liberty magazine, just before he began his Sunday-night ABC network commentary this week: "If they announce that the sponsor is not responsible for their commentator's sentiments, I'll announce that the sponsor's product is not necessarily endorsed by the commentator...
William J. Lippman '47 was elected president of the Crimson Network in elections held December 18. The only other major change was choosing of Ray A. Goldberg '48 as Program Director, and Robert L. Wechsler '49, as Assistant Program Director. Robert O. DuBois '48 and Thomas A. Lehrer '47 will continue in their respective positions as Technical Director and Business Manager...
...will possibly recall," said he, "that during the war the Federation waived its objections to network broadcasts emanating from foreign countries, even though music for these programs was furnished by musicians who are not members of the American Federation of Musicians...
...network-manager was hired last week as a station-manager. Both the station and the man were outstanding, and both he and the station felt lucky. The manager was young (35), shrewd Lieut. Colonel John S. Hayes, who built and bossed the crackajack American Forces Network in Europe. The station was the New York Times' s 10,000-watt WQXR, which devotes 80% of its broadcast day to "the best in music," the rest to frequent news and infrequent commercials...
...British pattern, announced that it would experiment with radio advertising. Now dividing its air time between non-commercial "A" and "B" programs-one in English, the other in Afrikaans-the dominion will build new transmitters in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth for a new "C" network open to advertisers. The network hopes to combine BBC's well-tailored decorum with American money-making methods, will carefully consider the sponsor's product before signing a contract. Probable taboos: laxative ads, political blurbs, singing commercials...