Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completed its investigation of network programming last week, it heard from the American Broadcasting Co., which followed CBS and NBC like a bat boy tagging after Maris and Mantle...
Though eager to cut their losses, the Dutch insist that they have a moral responsibility to prepare New Guinea's primitive Papuans for self-government. They have set up a network of village schools, entrusted social legislation to a year-old, elected Council (16 Papuan, 12 Dutch members), and given natives administrative responsibility for more than half the area they control. The country now has its own national anthem, My Country, My Papua, and a red-white-and-blue flag. At a cost of $1,500,000, Dutch officials have organized a West Papuan Volunteer Corps (motto: I PERSEVERE...
Heretofore a local attraction in Detroit and Los Angeles, Soupy reached the big time last week: ABC put him on its network schedule in prime evening time. Soupy flung around countless pies on opening night, mostly directed at a dear old lady hobbling on a stick. But to make sure the show was boffo in the ratings race, Sinatra himself turned up. Knowing what was coming, Frankie had prudently dispensed with his toupee, leaving him barely recognizable to a large segment of his fans. Gallantly, on cue-schlopp-he took a pie in the face. Last week, following the leader...
...hearings, the FCC and CBS had tilted with polite amiability. But it was NBC's turn last week, and NBC Chairman Robert Sarnoff bristled from the start. He began by charging that, for all Newton Minow's protestations, what the FCC obviously sought was Government control of network programming. Nettled and irritated, a couple of commissioners broke in to insist that the FCC had never said any such thing. Later, at his press conference, President Kennedy himself reiterated that the FCC had no intention of "changing the basic relationship which already exists...
...turn, and after that ABC. Then the FCC, which has already collected some 10,000 pages of testimony in its various hearings, will produce a written report to the Administration with proposals for legislation. Beneath all of the politeness at the hearings, the blunt issue is government regulation of network practices...